--- title: "Great Academies Education Trust: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/great-academies-education-trust-ashton-under-lyne-686599 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-10-30 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # Great Academies Education Trust: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Great Academies Education Trust (Companies House 06237630, Ashton under Lyne) holds an A-rated Worker sponsor licence covering the Skilled Worker route and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since 2 August 2016 (source: Borderless, from the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors and Companies House). ## Key facts - Register status: Active: on the current register and licensed to sponsor workers - Licence type and rating: Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: Skilled Worker - First seen on the register: 2 August 2016 - Industry: Education - Town: Ashton under Lyne - Registered address: Cavendish 249 Cavendish Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire, OL6 7AT - Companies House number: 06237630 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06237630) - Website: https://www.greatacademies.co.uk - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/great-academies-education-trust - Register data as of: 30 October 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/great-academies-education-trust-ashton-under-lyne-686599 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 78 licensed sponsors in Ashton-Under-Lyne: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/ashton-under-lyne - One of 4,518 in Education: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/education - Among 122,278 Skilled Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/skilled-worker ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 55 changes worth checking, checked 31 October 2026, newest first: - 30 Jun 2026: Director resigned: SULLIVAN-WILLIAMS, Catherine Elizabeth. Director change recorded on 30 Jun 2026. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 Jun 2026: Director resigned: BOWES, Christopher Graham. Director change recorded on 30 Jun 2026. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 Jun 2026: Director resigned: KILSHAW, Harjit Kaur. Director change recorded on 30 Jun 2026. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 28 Jan 2026: Director resigned: MORRIS, Louisa Jane. Director change recorded on 28 Jan 2026. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 11 Nov 2025: Director resigned: NORRIS, Frank William. Director change recorded on 11 Nov 2025. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 29 Jan 2025: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 29 Jan 2025. If the address on your sponsor licence has changed, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 6 Sep 2024: New director appointed: MORRIS, Louisa Jane. Director change recorded on 6 Sep 2024. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 25 Mar 2024: Director resigned: GRIFFITHS, Stephen. Director change recorded on 25 Mar 2024. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 19 Jul 2023: New director appointed: KILSHAW, Harjit Kaur. Director change recorded on 19 Jul 2023. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 7 Apr 2023: Director resigned: BRISLEN, Christopher. Director change recorded on 7 Apr 2023. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 21 Oct 2022: New director appointed: BRISLEN, Christopher. Director change recorded on 21 Oct 2022. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 26 Sep 2022: Director resigned: BRODERICK, Paul Radcliffe. Director change recorded on 26 Sep 2022. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 31 Aug 2022: Director resigned: HALL, Annette. Director change recorded on 31 Aug 2022. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 4 Jul 2022: Cessation of Mr Richard Mark Thompson as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 4 Jul 2022. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 4 Jul 2022: Cessation of Mrs Annette Hall as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 4 Jul 2022. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 4 Jul 2022: Cessation of Mr Michael O'Hare as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 4 Jul 2022. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 1 Sep 2021: New director appointed: BRODERICK, Paul Radcliffe. Director change recorded on 1 Sep 2021. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 20 May 2021: New person with significant control: Mr Richard Mark Thompson. Change to people with significant control recorded on 20 May 2021. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 20 May 2021: Cessation of Mr Anthony Arthur Powell as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 20 May 2021. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Mar 2021: Director resigned: BLAKEY, Michael Andrew. Director change recorded on 12 Mar 2021. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 9 Mar 2021: New director appointed: GRIFFITHS, Stephen. Director change recorded on 9 Mar 2021. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 24 Sep 2020: Director resigned: SULIGOWSKI, Gregory Thomas. Director change recorded on 24 Sep 2020. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 14 May 2020: Director resigned: CURRAN, Helen Christina. Director change recorded on 14 May 2020. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 23 Apr 2020: New director appointed: BLAKEY, Michael Andrew. Director change recorded on 23 Apr 2020. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 23 Apr 2020: New director appointed: JONES, Paul Anthony. Director change recorded on 23 Apr 2020. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - + 30 earlier changes on the web page Companies House cannot show who holds the licence roles or whether a change was reported to the Home Office, so these are prompts to check against your own records, not findings. ## Sponsored jobs No listings matched yet. Job listings are harvested daily from Reed, Adzuna, Jooble and Careerjet and matched back to the register by employer name. ## Common questions about Great Academies Education Trust ### Is Great Academies Education Trust a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Great Academies Education Trust in Ashton under Lyne is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2016. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Great Academies Education Trust sponsor? Great Academies Education Trust is licensed for Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Great Academies Education Trust based? The register lists Great Academies Education Trust at Cavendish 249 Cavendish Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire, OL6 7AT. This is usually the head office; the job itself may be somewhere else. ### How current is this information? This page uses the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, as published on 30 October 2026, and Companies House records for company number 06237630. We update it daily. Always confirm a licence status on GOV.UK. ## About this data - Source register: UK Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors (Workers), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers (Open Government Licence v3). GOV.UK is authoritative; confirm there before relying on a licence status. - Company records: Companies House, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/ - Published by Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk), an OISC-regulated UK immigration provider. This is public register data, not legal advice. - "First seen on the register" is when this organisation first appeared in our data, not the official licence grant date. - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/great-academies-education-trust-ashton-under-lyne-686599 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/great-academies-education-trust-ashton-under-lyne-686599.md - Site overview for AI agents: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/llms.txt - Something wrong? Request a correction from the web page and the Borderless team will check it.