Company registration number 10992904 (England and Wales)
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
PAGES FOR FILING WITH REGISTRAR
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
CONTENTS
Page
Balance sheet
7
Notes to the financial statements
8 - 13
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
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The directors present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2025.
Principal activities
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of providers of Higher Education and operators of a community Chiropractic clinic.
Directors
The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:
Professor Christina Cunliffe
Dr David Holmes
Mr Matt Green
(Resigned 31 August 2025)
Ms Alison Wells
Mr Jon Frost
(Appointed 1 January 2025)
Auditor
Xeinadin Audit Ltd were appointed as auditor to the company and in accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006, a resolution proposing that they be re-appointed will be put at a General Meeting.
Statement of directors' responsibilities
The directors are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Statement of disclosure to auditor
So far as each person who was a director at the date of approving this report is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s auditor is unaware. Additionally, the directors individually have taken all the necessary steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of all relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditor is aware of that information.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
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Small companies exemption
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.
On behalf of the board
Professor Christina Cunliffe
Dr David Holmes
Director
Director
29 January 2026
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
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Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of The College of Health Ltd (the 'company') for the year ended 31 August 2025 which comprise , the balance sheet and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion the financial statements:
give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 August 2025 and of its profit for the year then ended;
have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:
the information given in the directors' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
the directors' report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
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Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors' report. We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
certain disclosures of remuneration specified by law are not made; or
we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemption in preparing the directors' report and from the requirement to prepare a strategic report.
Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the directors' responsibilities statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below.
Extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud
We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks within which the company operates, focusing on those laws and regulations that have a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The laws and regulations we considered in this context were The Companies Act 2006 and relevant taxation compliance regulations.
In addition, we also concluded that there are certain significant laws and regulations which may have an effect on the determination of the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, being those laws relating to health and safety regulations, data protection and GDPR guidelines. Given the nature of the company's activities, they are registered with and governed by the Office for Students, who oversee post 18 education in the UK. They are also a registered provider with the General Chiropractic Council and the European Council on Chiropractic Education and for their overseas students are also registered with the UK Visas and Immigration services.
We understood how the company is complying with these frameworks and regulations by making enquiries of management and those responsible for compliance and corroborated these enquiries with reviews of board minutes and any available correspondence with legal advisors.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
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In respect of the Office for Students, Regulatory advice 9: accounts direction, we confirm the following;
The financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the provider's affairs, and its income and expenditure, gains and losses, changes in reserves and cash flows for the year.
We are required by the OfS to report on whether the provider's grant and fee income, as disclosed in note 3 to the accounts, has been materially misstated. We have nothing to report in this regard.
We assessed that there were risks of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud from the overide of controls by management, timing and recognising of income and in the manipulation of the company's key performance indicators to meet targets
Audit response to risks identified
We carried out procedures to respond to these risks, including enquiries of management about their systems and controls to identify these risks of irregularities, reviewing minutes of directors meetings, testwork to review a sample of journal entries made during the year, reviewing and testing assumptions made on accounting estimates for management biases and testing the timing and recognition of revenue.
Our audit procedures were designed to respond to risks of material misstatements in the financial statements, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve more sophisticated acts, including concealment, collusion or deliberately failing to record transactions through intentional misrepresentation.
There are inherent limitations within an audit, even though it has been properly planned and carried out in accordance with auditing standards and we cannot be responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect non compliance with all laws and regulations.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
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This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
Russell Eley FCCA
Senior Statutory Auditor
For and on behalf of` Xeinadin Audit Limited
29 January 2026
Accountants & Stautory Auditor
Xeinadin Audit Limited
i2 Mansfield, Office Suite 0.3
Hamilton Court
Oakham Business Park
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG18 5FB
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 AUGUST 2025
31 August 2025
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2025
2024
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
3
165,973
220,121
Current assets
Debtors falling due after more than one year
4
214,598
214,598
Debtors falling due within one year
4
1,032,031
991,003
Cash at bank and in hand
2,613,254
2,345,737
3,859,883
3,551,338
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
5
(1,577,598)
(1,645,706)
Net current assets
2,282,285
1,905,632
Total assets less current liabilities
2,448,258
2,125,753
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
6
(171,566)
(441,995)
Provisions for liabilities
7
(244,000)
(244,000)
Net assets
2,032,692
1,439,758
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
8
100
100
Profit and loss reserves
2,032,592
1,439,658
Total equity
2,032,692
1,439,758
The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 29 January 2026 and are signed on its behalf by:
Professor Christina Cunliffe
Dr David Holmes
Director
Director
Company registration number 10992904 (England and Wales)
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
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1
Statement of Principal Accounting policies
Company information
The College of Health Ltd is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 1 Kimber Road, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 1BZ.
1.1
Accounting convention
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
The company's ultimate controlling party is Improve Education Group Limited. The financial statements of the company are consolidated in the financial statements of the above named. A copy of their accounts can be obtained from its registered office at Suite 1, 7th Floor, 50 Broadway, London, SW1H ODB.
1.2
Turnover
Turnover is recognised at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable net of VAT and other sales related taxes. The policy adopted for recognition of turnover are as follows:
Turnover represents the invoiced amount of goods and services provided during the year, stated net of value added tax. Amounts invoiced but unearned at the year end are treated as deferred revenue.
Tuition fees are recognised as the services are provided.
Included within other operating income are amounts relating to donations received. Donated amounts are not recognised as revenue when they are initially received, instead some are deferred until later accounting periods to match the expenditure to which they are funding. The deferred amounts are recognised as deferred income within creditors.
1.3
Tangible fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.
Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:
Fixtures, Fittings & Computers
3, 5 and 10 years on a straight line bases
The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is credited or charged to profit or loss.
1.4
Impairment of fixed assets
At each reporting period end date, the company reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any). Where it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, the company estimates the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
1
Statement of Principal Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.5
Financial instruments
Debtors and creditors receivable/payable with a year
Debtors and creditors are recorded at transaction price receivable or payable within one year. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in the profit and loss account within administrative expenses.
Loans and borrowings
Loans and borrowings are initially recognised at the transaction price including transaction costs. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest rate method, less impairment.
1.6
Taxation
The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.
Current tax
The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.
Deferred tax
Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.
The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.
1.7
Provisions
Provisions are recognised when the company has a legal or constructive present obligation as a result of a past event, it is probable that the company will be required to settle that obligation and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.
The amount recognised as a provision is the best estimate of the consideration required to settle the present obligation at the reporting end date, taking into account the risks and uncertainties surrounding the obligation. Where the effect of the time value of money is material, the amount expected to be required to settle the obligation is recognised at present value. When a provision is measured at present value, the unwinding of the discount is recognised as a finance cost in profit or loss in the period in which it arises.
1.8
Leases
Rental income from operating leases is recognised on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease. Initial direct costs incurred in negotiating and arranging an operating lease are added to the carrying amount of the leased asset and recognised on a straight line basis over the lease term.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
1
Statement of Principal Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.9
Government grants
Government grants are recognised at the fair value of the asset received or receivable when there is reasonable assurance that the grant conditions will be met and the grants will be received.
Government grants relating to turnover are recognised as income over the periods when the related costs are incurred. Grants relating to an asset are recognised in income systematically over the asset's expected useful life. If part of such a grant is deferred it is recognised as deferred income rather than being deducted from the asset's carrying amount.
1.10
Foreign exchange
Transactions in currencies other than pounds sterling are recorded at the rates of exchange prevailing at the dates of the transactions. At each reporting end date, monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rates prevailing on the reporting end date. Gains and losses arising on translation in the period are included in profit or loss.
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
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2
Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
2025
2024
Number
Number
Directors
2
2
Employees
44
41
Total
46
43
3
Tangible fixed assets
Plant and machinery etc
£
Cost
At 1 September 2024
593,260
Additions
27,015
At 31 August 2025
620,275
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 September 2024
373,139
Depreciation charged in the year
81,163
At 31 August 2025
454,302
Carrying amount
At 31 August 2025
165,973
At 31 August 2024
220,121
4
Debtors
2025
2024
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Trade debtors
812,838
809,088
Other debtors
219,193
181,915
1,032,031
991,003
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
4
Debtors
(Continued)
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2025
2024
Amounts falling due after more than one year:
£
£
Other debtors
214,598
214,598
Total debtors
1,246,629
1,205,601
5
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2025
2024
£
£
Bank loans
5,556
Trade creditors
135,104
190,805
Corporation tax
231,074
155,929
Other taxation and social security
38,699
4,949
Other creditors
1,172,721
1,288,467
1,577,598
1,645,706
6
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
2025
2024
£
£
Bank loans and overdrafts
26,389
Other creditors
171,566
415,606
171,566
441,995
7
Provisions for liabilities
2025
2024
£
£
Dilapidation provision
244,000
244,000
Movements on provisions:
Dilapidation provision
£
At 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025
244,000
THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH LTD
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
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8
Called up share capital
2025
2024
Ordinary share capital
£
£
Issued and fully paid
Ordinary shares of £1 each
100
100
9
Audit report information
As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements, the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006:
The auditor's report was unqualified.
The senior statutory auditor was Russell Eley FCCA.
The auditor was Xeinadin Audit Ltd.
10
Operating lease commitments
At the reporting end date the company had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, as follows:
2025
2024
£
£
2,517,624
2,898,210
11
Related party transactions
Transactions with related parties
The company made a loan of £200,000 to Health Holdings Limited, a company under the same common ownership as The College of Health Limited. The loan is interest free and has no specific repayment dates, but the directors have indicated that they are not seeking repayment within the next 12 months, hence its inclusion in debtors more than one year.
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