{"name":"ENTRUST SUPPORT SERVICES LIMITED","company_number":"04440463","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2002-05-16","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"The Riverway Centre, Riverway, Stafford, United Kingdom, ST16 3TH","postcode":"ST16 3TH","sic_codes":[{"code":64999,"description":"Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified"}],"principal_activity":"The principal activity of the Company is that of providing education support services to local government establishments. These services comprise the provision of specialist education services, outdoor education, learning technologies, facilities management and catering services to local government-maintained schools, academy schools and other educational or similar establishments.","previous_names":[{"name":"CAPITA (SCC) LIMITED","changed_on":"2013-03-12"},{"name":"CAPITA QUEST TRUSTEES LIMITED","changed_on":"2012-12-17"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Full","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2025-12-31","next_due":"2027-09-30"},"employees":{"count":472,"accounts_date":"2025-12-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-12-31","profit_loss":-1583458,"net_assets":-21149336,"average_employees":472},{"financial_date":"2024-12-31","profit_loss":-2267138,"net_assets":-19565878,"average_employees":598},{"financial_date":"2023-12-31","net_assets":-17298740},{"financial_date":"2021-12-31"},{"financial_date":"2020-12-31"}],"officers":{"current":10,"resigned":50,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Entrust Support Services Limited occupies a structurally vulnerable position within the UK outsourced education support services market. Despite marginal revenue growth to £49.25m and a narrowing operating loss, the company carries deeply impaired balance sheet metrics — with net liabilities of £19.6m and a shareholders' deficit exceeding £81m — that would render it insolvent without Capita Group's intercompany support. The joint venture model with [name withheld] provides contractual stability but constrains commercial flexibility, while the ongoing academisation of maintained schools systematically erodes the captive market upon which the business was originally built. Without significant operational restructuring or contract renegotiation, Entrust faces a challenging trajectory in a sector characterised by tight margins and structural decline in its core customer base.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/entrust-support-services","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/entrust-support-services/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/entrust-support-services/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04440463","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/entrust-support-services/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/entrust-support-services/control","pay_gap":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/entrust-support-services/pay-gap","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/entrust-support-services/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/entrust-support-services"}