Training provider Sally Durant goes into administration

Sally Durant Aesthetic Education & Training has gone into administration, ceasing to trade from Tuesday, May 14. The training company was founded by Sally Durant in 2009 and ran accredited courses on advanced skin studies and practices.

Durant, who has nearly four decades of experience in the industry, played an integral role in raising standards of education and training for beauty therapists working within aesthetics, campaigning for professional regulation and mandatory qualifications. 

She cited “delays in Government legislation and slow implementation of the JCCP register, together with the financial uncertainty over Brexit” as contributing factors to the decline of her business. She said, “While I have tried everything in my power to restructure or refinance the business in order to save it, I have been unable to secure a way forward.” 

Durant also stated that she has “no funds or assets with which to discharge my creditors or liabilities” and has sought the advice of a licensed insolvency practitioner who has told her, as a sole trader, to declare herself bankrupt. She also said that the official receiver will be in touch with colleges and students in due course with regards to “any money that may be owed.” 

Durant who said she would be “leaving an industry I have worked in and loved for 38 years”, expressed her regret at the situation. She added, “It is a personal tragedy to me to see everything I have worked so hard to achieve collapse in this way, and to feel the terrible burden. I have endeavoured to act with the utmost integrity and honesty in trying to honour my commitments and I am desperately sorry that I have not succeeded in doing so, and for the effect that this situation will have on all concerned.”

However our sister magazine Professional Beauty reported that "Sally Durant is currently engaged in serious discussions with an established company in the beauty and aesthetics training sector about a potential transaction that would permit the business to trade forward under new ownership. If completed, this would enable the continuing delivery of the existing training courses under the Sally Durant brand. Although no agreement has yet been reached, a further announcement should be coming by the end of May.