EQUITY INSPIRING LEARNING LIMITED
Company number 02598164 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Equity Inspiring Learning Limited is a niche educational tour operator demonstrating credible post-pandemic recovery with 20% revenue growth and a return to profitability, underpinned by a strategic shift to variable costs and technology investment. However, the company's persistently negative shareholders' funds of £14.8M and existential dependency on annual regulatory renewals create a fragile foundation that constrains strategic optionality. The path to sustainable value creation requires disciplined balance sheet repair alongside volume recovery, with the new booking platform serving as the critical enabler of margin improvement and operational scalability.
Shareholders' funds
-£14,782
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
What it does
The principal activity of the Group is that of an educational tour provider.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1991-04-04
- Employees
- 63 (2025 accounts · was 66 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 3rd Floor, 100-101, Queens Road, Brighton Queens Road, Brighton, England, BN1 3XF
- Postcode
- BN1 3XF
- Capital
- 3 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-27
- Next due by
- 2027-04-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 79120 Tour operator activities
Officers 2 current · 28 resigned
Group structure 4 subsidiaries
Controlled by THE SCHOOL TRAVEL GROUP LIMITED — since 2018-05-09
Controlled by EQUITY BIDCO LIMITED — since 2016-10-26
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z1337238 (Tier 2), registered since 2008.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- equity.co.uk
- Phone
- +44 1273 648248, 01273 648 248, 049317599293
Group tours for schools, colleges and other institutions, created with a passion for delivering life-changing learning experiences for young people. School trips abroad with travel to Europe and the USA.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| STG TRAVEL LTD. | 2014-10-14 |
| STG EQUITY LTD. | 2007-08-10 |
| EQUITY LIMITED | 2007-06-15 |
| BLAKEINGTON LIMITED | 1991-04-24 |
Previous registered addresses 7
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| FIFTH FLOOR, WEST WING, CROWN HOUSE, 21 UPPER NORTH STREET, BRIGHTON, BN1 3FG, ENGLAND | 2020-12-08 |
| ONE, JUBILEE STREET, BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, BN1 1GE | 2018-10-22 |
| 47 MIDDLE STREET, BRIGHTON, E.SUSSEX, BN1 1AL | 2006-10-11 |
| NORWOOD HOUSE, 9 DYKE ROAD,BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, BN1 3FE | 1994-11-07 |
| NORWOOD HOUSE, 9 DYKE ROAD,BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX, BN1 3FE | 1994-11-07 |
| 39A HIGH STREET, HEATHFIELD, EAST SUSSEX, TN21 8HU | 1992-10-20 |
| WEST KENT HOUSE, CROFT ROAD, CROWBOROUGH, EAST SUSSEX TN6 1DL | 1991-04-27 |
Among its peers
The largest employer
of 53 similar companies in BN, with 63 staff. 3rd oldest of its local peers.
Competitors Brighton
This company ranks 65 among tour operator activities in Brighton.
The class of 1991
50%
of the 20,888 companies incorporated in 1991 are still active today; 45% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.