WINDERMERE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Company number 00914963 ·

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Executive summary

Windermere Educational Trust is a long-established independent school facing structural financial challenges from declining pupil numbers and the imminent imposition of VAT on school fees. The Trust is taking proactive restructuring steps, including campus consolidation and property disposal, but has explicitly acknowledged significant profitability and liquidity risk. Credit support should be conditional on completion of the Elleray sale, stabilisation of pupil numbers, and validation of the consolidated business model through updated financial projections.

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Overview

Company type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated
1967-09-08
Registered office
Brow Head Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 1NW
Postcode
LA23 1NW
Accounts category
Full
Charges
3 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
2025-11-28
Next due by
2026-12-12
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 85200 Primary education
  • 85310 General secondary education

Officers 8 current · 67 resigned

Appointed 2025-05-09
Appointed 2025-05-09
Appointed 2024-09-14
Appointed 2022-06-08
Leo HOULDING Director
Appointed 2022-05-11

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Registered charity

WINDERMERE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED — charity number 526973

Registered 1967-11-28 Income £5,521,801 Spending £6,555,088 FY to 2025-08-31

Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Licensed visa sponsor

Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Charity Worker (Temporary Worker (A rating)).

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Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z808924X (Tier 1), registered since 2003.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Previous company names

NameDate changed
ST ANNE'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED2000-12-15

Among its peers

The oldest

of 20 similar companies in LA, trading since 1967

Property in England & Wales 7 titles

Freehold
6
Leasehold
1
Most recent registration
2024-08-14
Where
Westmorland And Furness (7)
Title numberCounty Tenure RegisteredPrice paid
CU344270 Westmorland And Furness Leasehold 2024-08-14
CU335627 Westmorland And Furness Freehold 2022-12-13
CU333257 Westmorland And Furness Freehold 2022-07-11
CU325341 Westmorland And Furness Freehold 2021-03-11
CU206795 Westmorland And Furness Freehold 2005-05-10
CU198247 Westmorland And Furness Freehold 2004-06-22
CU164779 Westmorland And Furness Freehold 2001-03-23

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