The Quinn Partnership, The UK’s leading provider of Management Due Diligence, has advised Bridgepoint Development Capital on it’s acquisition of Inspiring Learning, a provider of residential activity centres and educational trips for primary and secondary school children.

Headquartered in the UK, Inspiring Learning has two divisions – Kingswood, an operator of 10 residential activity centres with over 4,000 beds principally in the North, East and South East of the UK. This is the larger part of the group and has a 30 year heritage in providing educational residential courses for school children and also provides the residential element of the government’s National Citizenship Service aimed at 15-17 year olds. In addition, Kingswood also operates Camp Beaumont Day Centres which provide non-residential day and multiple-day courses for working parents in London during the school holidays. The company’s other division, Equity, provides curriculum linked educational tours, ski trips and sports tours.

Kingswood has demonstrated a strong track record of growth under the current management team, opening new sites and expanding existing ones to provide its broad base of school customers with high quality facilities and tailored activities that meet their ‘out of classroom’ learning objectives.

John Bentley, Inspiring Learning’s CEO, said: “‘Out of the classroom’ learning is a key component of our country’s national curriculum as schools look to produce rounded and confident children. Inspiring Learning contributes to that aim and with the backing of a new shareholder we now have the ability to accelerate the expansion of our service offering.”

Robin Lawson, director of Bridgepoint Development Capital, added: “Inspiring Learning is a national operator of scale in a sector experiencing solid growth that is capable of growing both organically and by acquisition thanks to its strong capital base and a recognised ability to provide the volume and variety of out of classroom learning experiences required by schools nationally.”

Paul Quinn, director at The Quinn Partnership commented: “Inspiring Learning are well established and experienced in the ‘Out of the Classroom” sector, partnered with Bridgepoint they are well positioned to continue this growth”.

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