Vocational & Professional Training succession in South West

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875 of 2,189 vocational & professional training companies in South West (40%) have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 1st highest of 6 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured2,189

Director aged 60+875

Exposure rate40%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

2,189

Companies measured

875

Director 60+

300

Director 70+

40%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; vocational & professional training nationally runs at 30.3%.

Measure	Companies
Vocational & Professional Training companies in South West measured	2,189
Oldest director aged 60 or over	875
Oldest director aged 70 or over	300

Of the 875 with a director over 60, 31 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Vocational & Professional Training in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	149	43.4%
Wales	396	41.5%
Scotland	460	37.5%
South East	1,429	35.6%
North East	253	34.2%
East Midlands	509	31.9%
Yorkshire & The Humber	523	31.8%
East of England	845	30.9%

Other trades in South West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	6,563	42.4%
Lettings	6,097	43.7%
Retail	4,219	31.7%
Other Leisure	3,052	35.9%
Agriculture	2,727	56.2%
Property Development	2,682	47.6%
Investment	2,624	37.4%
Investment / Fund Management	2,581	40%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Education & Training pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Vocational & Professional Training succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-education-vocational/south-west/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as a different trade grouping, a finer geography or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses; see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.