TeacherActive is one of the largest education recruitment agencies in the UK. As experts in education, the business delivers well-established recruitment services to support outstanding learning experiences. With operations across England and Wales and covering Primary, Secondary, Early Years, FE and SEND, TeacherActive takes the worry out of temporary and permanent recruitment, to enable education settings to focus on their core competencies and to assist teacher development. The company’s national scale, local client focus, and leading compliance, training, and high-quality candidate offering makes it stand out across the education market.

TeacherActive is a highly professional business with strong relationships across both employers and teachers. It has an experienced, talented and ambitious management team who have driven a service ethos based on flexible and quality solutions to acute and long-term requirements, via high-touch personal support reinforced with an efficient and tech-enabled back-office function.  

In March 2024, Pricoa Private Capital provided a one-stop funding solution to support a debt refinancing and shareholder recapitalisation, which simultaneously put in place incentive and ownership across a wide proportion of the employee base. TeacherActive’s long-standing management team continues to own a significant majority of the business.

Pricoa was chosen as a financial partner to support TeacherActive’s team in the next phase of the company’s evolution because we bring a long-term and relationship-focussed approach, experience in supporting management-led growth with strategic input, as well as the capacity to deploy a broad range of private capital solutions across the balance sheet. This provides certainty of execution in an initial investment and a platform for future financing.  

We provided senior debt, subordinated debt and minority equity capital to facilitate the business’ requirements, and retain the ability to invest further for future inorganic or other growth opportunities. Virgin Money provided an ID facility for working capital purposes. Akin Gump represented Pricoa as counsel. Clearwater advised on the transaction and Gateley provided counsel for management.