ORBIS EDUCATION AND CARE LIMITED
Company number 05521347 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Orbis Education and Care operates as a specialist provider in the highly regulated UK learning disabilities and autism residential care sector, achieving impressive top-line growth of 21.6% to £33m against a backdrop of stagnant industry-wide local authority fee increases. However, its financial stability is severely compromised by a private equity-driven Holdco/Bidco structure that has left the operating entity with negative shareholders' funds of £-8m and total liabilities of £263m. While the underlying business demonstrates strong demand and improved cash reserves, its highly leveraged position presents significant vulnerability to sector-specific pressures such as staffing cost inflation and commissioning cuts.
Shareholders' funds
-£8,086,339
Balance sheet as at 2025-08-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is the provision of education and care services for children and adults with complex learning needs including needs associated with autistic spectrum conditions.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2005-07-28
- Employees
- 697 (2025 accounts · was 675 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Vision Court Caxton Place, Pentwyn, Cardiff, Wales, CF23 8HA
- Postcode
- CF23 8HA
- Capital
- 1,001 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 7 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-08-31
- Next due by
- 2027-05-31
- Financial year end
- 31 August
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-17
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
Nature of business (SIC)
- 87200 Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse
Officers 7 current · 24 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by ORBIS EDUCATION AND CARE BIDCO LIMITED — since 2018-11-30
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Gender pay gap
4%
Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ORBIS EDUCATION LIMITED | 2009-07-10 |
| ORBIS HEALTHCARE LIMITED | 2007-08-06 |
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 1ST FLOOR, 18 WINDSOR PLACE, CARDIFF, CF10 3BY | 2017-02-28 |
| 1ST FLOOR 17 WINDSOR PLACE, CARDIFF, CF10 3BY | 2015-02-04 |
| 5TH FLOOR HARLECH COURT, BUTE TERRACE, CARDIFF, SOUTH WALES, CF10 2FE, WALES | 2014-04-01 |
| 1ST FLOOR, WILLOW HOUSE 6 CEDAR COURT, HAZELL DRIVE, NEWPORT, GWENT, NP10 8FY | 2011-05-05 |
| BRANTON HOUSE, 1A GOWER STREET, CARDIFF, SOUTH GLAMORGAN, CF24 4PA | 2010-08-04 |
| 20 STATION ROAD, RADYR, CARDIFF, CF15 8AA | 2005-08-11 |
Among its peers
The largest employer
of 35 similar companies in CF, with 697 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors Cardiff
This company ranks 52 among residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse in Cardiff.
The class of 2005
34%
of the 154,486 companies incorporated in 2005 are still active today; 63% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 24 titles
- Freehold
- 23
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2025-03-12
- Price paid, where recorded
- £9,626,663
- Where
- Neath Port Talbot (4), Swansea (3), Cardiff (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WA836324 | Bridgend | Freehold | 2025-03-12 | £490,000 |
| CYM889274 | Caerphilly | Freehold | 2024-10-08 | £2,000 |
| WA635012 | Caerphilly | Freehold | 2024-10-08 | £473,000 |
| CYM331961 | Rhondda Cynon Taff | Freehold | 2024-09-25 | £390,000 |
| SF700059 | Staffordshire | Freehold | 2024-08-09 | £375,000 |
| CYM133769 | Monmouthshire | Freehold | 2021-09-16 | — |
| CYM825076 | Monmouthshire | Freehold | 2021-09-16 | — |
| WA823247 | Swansea | Freehold | 2021-03-25 | £287,500 |
| CYM823476 | Cardiff | Leasehold | 2021-03-24 | — |
| WA231881 | Rhondda Cynon Taff | Freehold | 2020-12-07 | £106,000 |
| WA29709 | Cardiff | Freehold | 2020-12-07 | £348,000 |
| CYM141265 | Swansea | Freehold | 2020-10-30 | — |
| CYM16106 | Neath Port Talbot | Freehold | 2019-02-14 | £1,550,297 |
| WA146833 | Neath Port Talbot | Freehold | 2019-02-14 | — |
| WA541652 | Newport | Freehold | 2019-02-14 | £1,539,866 |
| WA590478 | Neath Port Talbot | Freehold | 2019-02-14 | — |
| WA682932 | Newport | Freehold | 2019-02-14 | — |
| WA821191 | Neath Port Talbot | Freehold | 2019-02-14 | — |
| CYM735710 | The Vale Of Glamorgan | Freehold | 2018-02-27 | — |
| CYM610800 | The Vale Of Glamorgan | Freehold | 2018-02-22 | £1,790,000 |
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