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Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Contents

Company Information

1

Strategic Report

2

Directors' Report

3

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

4

Independent Auditor's Report

5 to 7

Profit and Loss Account

8

Balance Sheet

9

Statement of Changes in Equity

10

Notes to the Financial Statements

11 to 17

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Company Information

Directors

E E Gibson

A N Hassan

N Wergan

Registered office

58 Buckingham Gate
London
SW1E 6AJ

Auditors

Hazlewoods LLP Windsor House
Bayshill Road
Cheltenham
GL50 3AT

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

The directors present their strategic report for the year ended 31 August 2025. The comparative period is from 27 January 2024 to 31 August 2025.

Principal activity

The principal activity of the company is the provision of education services.

Fair review of the business

The results for the year which are set out in the profit and loss account show turnover of £11,179,888 (2024 - £5,611,028) and an operating profit of £2,759,600 (2024 - £742,250). At 31 August 2025 the company had net assets of £3,253,936 (2024 - £1,242,968). The directors consider the performance for the year and the financial position at the year end to be satisfactory.

Key performance indicators
Given the nature of the business, the company's directors are of the opinion that key performance indicators are important. The company uses a number of indicators to monitor and improve development, performance or the position of the business. Indicators are reviewed and altered to meet changes both in the internal and external environments. The directors do not consider the inclusion of an analysis using key performance indicators to be necessary to assist users of the financial statements in their understanding of the financial performance or position of the company

Principal risks and uncertainties

The management of the business and the execution of the company's strategy are subject to a number of risks. The key business risks and uncertainties affecting the company are considered to relate to ongoing compliance with current and future legislation affecting the sector.

Financial instruments

Objectives and policies

The company is exposed to the usual credit and cash flow risk associated with selling on credit and manages this through credit control procedures. The nature of its financial instruments means that price and liquidity risks are minimised by the predetermination of the company funding facilities and terms. The board constantly monitors the company's trading results and revise projections as appropriate to ensure that the company can meet its future obligations as they fall due.

Price risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and cash flow risk

The business' principal financial instruments comprise bank balance, trade debtors and trade creditors. The main purpose of these instruments is to finance the business' operations.

Trade debtors are managed in respect of credit and cash flow risk, by policies concerning the credit offered to customers and the regular monitoring of the amounts outstanding for both time and credit limits. The amounts presented in the balance sheet are net of allowances for doubtful debtors. Trade creditors' liquidity risk is managed by ensuring sufficient funds are available to meet amounts due.

The company has sufficient resources available funding (including ongoing loans from fellow group companies) and the directors have prepared forecasts for the next 12 months that indicate that this will continue to be the case and that these cash flows will be sufficient for the company to meet its financing commitments as they fall due. The directors therefore have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.

Approved by the Board on 29 May 2026 and signed on its behalf by:


E E Gibson
Director

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2025.

Directors of the company

The directors who held office during the year were as follows:

S G G Aiano (Resigned 1 June 2025)

G L Balcombe (Resigned 6 May 2026)

S Coles (Resigned 6 May 2026)

G C Doyle (Resigned 6 May 2026)

E E Gibson

A N Hassan

R Slevin (Resigned 6 May 2026)

The following director was appointed after the year end:

N Wergan (Appointed 6 May 2026)

Future developments

The external environment is expected to remain competitive going forward, however, the directors are confident that the company will continue to improve the current level of performance in the future.

Disclosure of information to the auditors

Each director has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information. The directors confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditors are unaware.

Reappointment of auditors

Hazlewoods LLP have expressed their willingness to continue in office.

Approved by the Board on 29 May 2026 and signed on its behalf by:


E E Gibson
Director

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities 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 apply them consistently;
• make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
• state whether applicable United Kingdom Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
• 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.

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Yarrow Heights School Ltd (the 'company') for the year ended 31 August 2025, which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of 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.

Basis for opinion

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 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 original financial statements were 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.

Other information

The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. 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.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, 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 audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. 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.

Opinion on other matter prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

the information given in the Strategic Report and Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

the Strategic Report and Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report and the Directors' Report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Yarrow Heights School Ltd

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 directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of directors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page 4, 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.

Extent to which the audit was capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We considered the nature of the company’s industry and its control environment and reviewed the company’s documentation of their policies and procedures relating to fraud and compliance with laws and regulations. We also enquired of management about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities.

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework that the company operates in and identified the key laws and regulations that had a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, including the UK Companies Act and tax legislation, and, those that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which may be fundamental to the company’s ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty.

We discussed among the audit engagement team regarding the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and how and where fraud might occur in the financial statements.

In common with all audits conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK), we are also required to perform specific procedures to respond to the risk of management override of controls. In addressing the risk of fraud through management override of controls, we tested the appropriateness of journal entries and other adjustments; assessed whether the judgements made in accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias; and evaluated the business rationale of any significant transactions that are unusual or outside the normal course of business.

In addition to the above, our procedures to respond to the risks identified included the following:

reviewing financial statement disclosures by testing to supporting documentation to assess compliance with provisions of relevant laws and regulations described as having a direct effect on the financial statements;

performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatements due to fraud;

enquiring of management concerning actual and potential litigation and claims and instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations; and

reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Our audit procedures were designed to respond to risks of material misstatement 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 deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery, misrepresentations or through collusion. There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures performed and the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we are to become aware of it.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Use of this report
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.





Simon Worsley (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Hazlewoods LLP, Statutory Auditor

Windsor House
Bayshill Road
Cheltenham
GL50 3AT

29 May 2026

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

Note

Year ended 31 August
2025
£

27 January 2024 to 31 August
2024
£

Turnover

3

11,179,888

5,611,028

Cost of sales

 

(4,349,596)

(1,761,781)

Gross profit

 

6,830,292

3,849,247

Administrative expenses

 

(4,070,692)

(3,106,997)

Operating profit

4

2,759,600

742,250

Other interest receivable and similar income

5

3,540

-

Profit before tax

 

2,763,140

742,250

Tax on profit

9

(752,172)

(159,510)

Profit for the financial year

 

2,010,968

582,740

The above results were derived from continuing operations.

The company has no recognised gains or losses for the year other than the results above.

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

(Registration number: 13075638)
Balance Sheet as at 31 August 2025

Note

2025
£

2024
£

Fixed assets

 

Tangible assets

10

1,255,535

1,178,774

Current assets

 

Debtors

11

7,182,881

4,692,467

Cash at bank and in hand

 

740,581

1,202,665

 

7,923,462

5,895,132

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

12

(5,785,197)

(5,671,428)

Net current assets

 

2,138,265

223,704

Total assets less current liabilities

 

3,393,800

1,402,478

Provisions for liabilities

(139,864)

(159,510)

Net assets

 

3,253,936

1,242,968

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

1

1

Retained earnings

3,253,935

1,242,967

Shareholders' funds

 

3,253,936

1,242,968

Approved and authorised by the Board on 29 May 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
 


E E Gibson
Director

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Statement of Changes in Equity for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

Share capital
£

Retained earnings
£

Total
£

At 1 September 2024

1

1,242,967

1,242,968

Profit for the year

-

2,010,968

2,010,968

At 31 August 2025

1

3,253,935

3,253,936

Share capital
£

Retained earnings
£

Total
£

At 27 January 2024

1

660,227

660,228

Profit for the year

-

582,740

582,740

At 31 August 2024

1

1,242,967

1,242,968

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

 

1

General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
58 Buckingham Gate
London
SW1E 6AJ

 

2

Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

These financial statements were prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006'.

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except for, where disclosed in these accounting policies, certain items that are shown at fair value.

The presentational currency of the financial statements is Pounds Sterling, being the functional currency of the primary economic environment in which the company operates. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest Pound.

Name of parent of group

These financial statements are consolidated in the financial statements of Burlington Education Holdings Limited.

The financial statements of Burlington Education Holdings Limited may be obtained from Companies House.

Going concern

After reviewing the company's forecasts and projections, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.

Critical accounting judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods.
 

Judgements

These financial statements do not contain any significant judgements or estimation uncertainty.

Key sources of estimation uncertainty

No key sources of estimation uncertainty have been identified by management in preparing these financial statements other than those detailed in these accounting policies.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for the provision of services in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. Turnover is shown net of sales/value added tax, returns, rebates and discounts and after eliminating sales within the company. The company recognises revenue when the amount of revenue can be reliably measured, it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity and specific criteria have been met for each of the company's activities.

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the profit and loss account, except that a charge attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Deferred income tax is recognised on temporary differences arising between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts in the financial statements and on unused tax losses or tax credits in the company. Deferred income tax is determined using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date.

The carrying amount of deferred tax assets are reviewed at each reporting date and a valuation allowance is set up against deferred tax assets so that the net carrying amount equals the highest amount that is more likely than not to be recovered based on current or future taxable profit.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.

The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class

Depreciation method and rate

Leasehold property improvements

Straight line over 5 years

Furniture, fittings and equipment

Straight line over 3 years

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

Trade debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for services performed in the ordinary course of business.

Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. All trade debtors are repayable within one year and hence are included at the undiscounted cost of cash expected to be received. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the debtors.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if the company does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.

Trade creditors are recognised initially at the transaction price and all are repayable within one year and hence are included at the undiscounted amount of cash expected to be paid.

Leases

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Equity instruments are measured at the fair value of the cash or other resources received or receivable, net of the direct costs of issuing the equity instruments. If payment is deferred and the time value of money is material, the initial measurement is on a present value basis.

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

Defined contribution pension obligation

A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the company has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as employee benefit expense when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

Financial instruments


Classification
Financial instruments are classified and accounted for according to the substance of the contractual arrangement, as financial assets, financial liabilities or equity instruments. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities. Where shares are issued, any component that creates a financial liability of the company is presented as a liability on the balance sheet. The corresponding dividends relating to the liability component are charged as interest expenses in the profit and loss account.


Recognition and measurement
All financial assets and liabilities are initially measured at transaction price (including transaction costs), except for those financial assets classified as at fair value through profit or loss, which are initially measured at fair value (which is normally the transaction price excluding transaction costs), unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction. If an arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, the financial asset or financial liability is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument.


Impairment
Assets, other than those measured at fair value, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each balance sheet date. If there is objective evidence of impairment, an impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss as described below.

A non financial asset is impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after initial recognition, the estimated recoverable value of the asset has been reduced. The recoverable amount of an asset is the higher of its fair value less costs to sell and its value in use.

Where indicators exist for a decrease in impairment loss, the prior impairment loss is tested to determine reversal. An impairment loss is reversed on an individual impaired asset to the extent that the revised recoverable value does not lead to a revised carrying amount higher than the carrying value had no impairment been recognised.

For financial assets carried at amortised cost, the amount of an impairment is the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows, discounted at the financial asset’s original effective interest rate.

For financial assets carried at cost less impairment, the impairment loss is the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the best estimate of the amount that would be received for the asset if it were to be sold at the reporting date.

Where indicators exist for a decrease in impairment loss, and the decrease can be related objectively to an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the prior impairment loss is tested to determine reversal. An impairment loss is reversed on an individual impaired financial asset to the extent that the revised recoverable value does not lead to a revised carrying amount higher than the carrying value had no impairment been recognised.

 

3

Turnover

The total turnover of the company has been derived from its principal activity wholly undertaken in the United Kingdom.

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

 

4

Operating profit

Arrived at after charging/(crediting)

Year ended 31 August
2025
£

27 January 2024 to 31 August
2024
£

Depreciation expense

120,897

55,630

Operating lease expense - property

165,192

98,582

 

5

Other interest receivable and similar income

Year ended 31 August
2025
£

27 January 2024 to 31 August
2024
£

Interest income on bank deposits

3,540

-

 

6

Staff costs

The aggregate payroll costs (including directors' remuneration) were as follows:

Year ended 31 August
2025
£

27 January 2024 to 31 August
2024
£

Wages and salaries

3,519,346

1,900,439

Social security costs

383,818

179,246

Pension costs, defined contribution scheme

91,935

37,891

3,995,099

2,117,576

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, analysed by category was as follows:

Year ended 31 August
2025
No.

27 January 2024 to 31 August
2024
No.

Average number of employees

105

93

 

7

Directors' remuneration

Directors' remuneration has been borne by a fellow group undertaking.

 

8

Auditors' remuneration

The auditors' remuneration for the year and prior year was borne by a fellow group company.

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

 

9

Taxation

Tax charged/(credited) in the profit and loss account

Year ended 31 August
2025
£

27 January 2024 to 31 August
2024
£

Current taxation

UK corporation tax

710,456

-

UK corporation tax adjustment to prior periods

61,362

-

771,818

-

Deferred taxation

Arising from origination and reversal of timing differences

(19,646)

159,510

Tax expense in the income statement

752,172

159,510

The tax on profit before tax for the year is higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK (2024 - lower than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK) of 25% (2024 - 25%).

The differences are reconciled below:

Year ended 31 August
2025
£

27 January 2024 to 31 August
2024
£

Profit before tax

2,763,140

742,250

Corporation tax at standard rate

690,785

185,563

Increase in UK and foreign current tax from adjustment for prior periods

61,362

-

Tax increase/(decrease) from effect of capital allowances and depreciation

3,496

(26,053)

Effect of expense not deductible in determining taxable profit (tax loss)

1,495

-

Decrease from tax losses for which no deferred tax asset was recognised

(4,966)

-

Total tax charge

752,172

159,510

Deferred tax

Deferred tax assets and liabilities

2025

Liability
£

Differences between accumulated depreciation and amortisation and capital allowances

139,864

2024

Liability
£

Differences between accumulated depreciation and amortisation and capital allowances

159,510

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

 

10

Tangible assets

Leasehold improvements
£

Furniture, fittings and equipment
 £

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 September 2024

1,248,207

136,283

1,384,490

Additions

159,051

38,607

197,658

At 31 August 2025

1,407,258

174,890

1,582,148

Depreciation

At 1 September 2024

169,399

36,317

205,716

Charge for the year

68,627

52,270

120,897

At 31 August 2025

238,026

88,587

326,613

Carrying amount

At 31 August 2025

1,169,232

86,303

1,255,535

At 31 August 2024

1,078,808

99,966

1,178,774

 

11

Debtors

Note

2025
£

2024
£

Trade debtors

 

4,557,552

3,932,362

Amounts owed by group undertakings

2,406,197

708,823

Other debtors

 

1,499

1,205

Prepayments

 

34,608

50,077

Corporation tax asset

9

183,025

-

 

7,182,881

4,692,467

 

12

Creditors

2025
£

2024
£

Due within one year

Trade creditors

22,001

57,915

Amounts due to group undertakings

-

1,533,453

Social security and other taxes

1,561,933

-

Other payables

20,095

11,936

Accruals

171,498

135,445

Deferred income

4,009,670

3,932,679

5,785,197

5,671,428

 

13

Pension and other schemes

Defined contribution pension scheme

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The pension cost charge for the year represents contributions payable by the company to the scheme and amounted to £91,935 (2024 - £37,891).

 

Yarrow Heights School Ltd

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

 

14

Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

2025

2024

No.

£

No.

£

Ordinary shares of £1 each

1

1

1

1

       
 

15

Obligations under leases and hire purchase contracts

Operating leases

The total of future minimum lease payments is as follows:

2025
£

2024
£

Not later than one year

6,262

7,970

Later than one year and not later than five years

14,854

21,202

21,116

29,172

 

16

Contingent liabilities

The company is bound by an intra-group cross guarantee in respect of bank debt with other members of the group, headed by its parent undertaking, Burlington Education Holdings Limited. The amount guaranteed at 31 August 2025 is £192,085,000 (2024 - £111,400,000).

 

17

Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The company's immediate parent is Yarrow Heights Holdings Ltd, incorporated in England and Wales.

 The ultimate parent is Burlington Education Partners Holdings Limited, incorporated in Guernsey, which is considered to have no single ultimate controlling party.