CALEDONIAN TRUST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-14 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-02-28
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
-30.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£17M
-25.7% vs 2024
Employees
4
-20% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£6M
-498.3% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Real Estate median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,005,000 | £395,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£312,000 | -£344,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£987,000 | -£5,905,000 | |
| Net profit | -£987,000 | -£5,905,000 | |
| Cash | £1,841,000 | £1,279,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £22,984,000 | £17,079,000 | |
| Equity | £22,984,000 | £17,079,000 | |
| Average employees | 5 | 4 | |
| Wages | £358,000 | £275,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £263,000 | £202,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
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Turnover
-60.7%
£1,005,000 £395,000
-
Cash
-30.5%
£1,841,000 £1,279,000
-
Net assets
-25.7%
£22,984,000 £17,079,000
-
Employees
-20%
5 4
-
Operating profit
-10.3%
-£312,000 -£344,000
-
Profit before tax
-498.3%
-£987,000 -£5,905,000
-
Wages
-23.2%
£358,000 £275,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -31.0% | -87.1% | |
| Net margin | -98.2% | -1494.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 17.0% | 21.4% | |
| Current ratio | 15.87x | 16.82x | |
| Interest cover | -1.34x | -1.71x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 5 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2024-12-06
- CALEDONIAN TRUST LIMITED 2024-12-06 → present
- CALEDONIAN TRUST PLC. LIMITED 2024-12-06 → 2024-12-06
- CALEDONIAN TRUST PLC. 1988-06-29 → 2024-12-06
- TOWNGRADE SECURITIES PLC 1983-11-02 → 1988-06-29
- FIRST TALISMAN INVESTMENTS PLC 1982-09-28 → 1983-11-02
- FIRST TALISMAN INVESTMENT PLC 1972-01-27 → 1982-09-28
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Johnston Carmichael LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Group's cash reserves and existing loan arrangements are expected to be sufficient for the Group's cash flow needs for that period. For these reasons they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Whilst the directors cannot envisage all possible circumstances, the directors believe that, taking account of reasonably foreseeable adverse movements in rental income, interest or property values, the Group has sufficient resources available to enable it to do so.”
Group structure
- CALEDONIAN TRUST LIMITED · parent
- Muirfield Homes Ltd 100%
- South Castle Properties Ltd 100%
- West Castle Properties Ltd 100%
- Caledonian City Developments Ltd 100%
- Caledonian Farms Ltd 100%
- Brunstane Road South Ltd 100%
- The Bank of Edinburgh Group Ltd 100%
- The Bank of Edinburgh Ltd 100%
- B of E Properties Ltd 100%
- B of E Finance Ltd 100%
- Gartshore Village Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Company's listing on the Alternative Investment Market was cancelled with effect from 26 November 2024 and the Company re-registered as a private company on 6 December 2024.”
- “As previously advised, Ian Doulgas Lowe, our former Chairman and Chief Executive, passed on 5 January 2025.”
- “Within the Group's property investment portfolio the public house in Alloa, the last of the four originally refurbished in the late 1990s, was sold in October 2024.”
- “The four lockup garages in Young Street Lane North, Edinburgh were sold after the year end in November 2025.”
- “In November 2025 we sold the small area of ground on Mull where the prospects of obtaining planning consent seemed far off.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAYNHAM, Michael James | Secretary | — | — | British |
| BAYNHAM, Michael James | Director | — | Oct 1956 | British |
| MCARTHUR, John | Director | 2025-02-17 | Dec 1963 | British |
| PEARSON, Roderick John | Director | 2007-03-28 | Oct 1954 | British |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARTLEY, Alan James | Director | 2008-08-26 | 2011-02-02 |
| LITTLE, John Noel | Director | — | 2007-01-19 |
| LOWE, Ian Douglas | Director | — | 2025-01-05 |
| MCGREGOR, John Alexander Stephen | Director | — | 1993-05-31 |
| RANKIN, Bryan John | Director | — | 2007-01-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr John Mcarthur | Individual | Significant influence | 2025-01-06 | Active |
| Mr Paul Wigham | Individual | Significant influence | 2025-01-06 | Active |
| Mr Ian Douglas Lowe | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-01-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 336 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-06 CERT10 Certificate re registration public limited company to private
- 2024-12-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-06 RR02 Reregistration public to private company
- 2024-03-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-07-08 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-20 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-20 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-20 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-02-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-06 | CERT10 | change-of-name | Certificate re registration public limited company to private | |
| 2024-12-06 | MAR | incorporation | Re registration memorandum articles | |
| 2024-12-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-06 | RR02 | change-of-name | Reregistration public to private company | |
| 2024-03-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-03-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-13 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2023-07-08 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-03-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.