THE FIVE LAMPS ORGANISATION
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-23 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£675K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£249K
Equity attributable
Employees
131
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-09-30
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £5,884,365 | £3,807,483 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£101,708 | £248,115 | |
| Cash | £372,469 | £675,133 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,567,728 | £5,561,635 | |
| Net assets | £1,020 | £249,135 | |
| Equity | £1,020 | £249,135 | |
| Average employees | 144 | 131 | |
| Wages | £3,523,700 | £2,231,508 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £7,818 | £0 |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -1.7% | 6.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 100.0% | 96.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.10x | 1.29x |
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 2 times since incorporation
- THE FIVE LAMPS ORGANISATION 1998-09-10 → present
- THE FIVE LAMPS-THORNABY COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE 1992-02-26 → 1998-09-10
- THORNABY IMPASSE 1989-11-09 → 1992-02-26
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Armstrong Watson Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees are delighted to file these 2023/24 Accounts and Statements as a Going Concern with a significantly improved reserve.”
Group structure
- THE FIVE LAMPS ORGANISATION · parent
- Five Lamps Trading Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The legal agreements required to divest Five Lamps Trading were concluded in June 2025.”
- “The Trustees are delighted to file these 2023/24 Accounts and Statements as a Going Concern with a significantly improved reserve.”
- “In 2023/24 the Trustees resolved a number of significant adjustments to prepare for the disinvestment of Five Lamps Trading.”
- “The Trustees report total expenditure at less than total income for the first time in five years.”
- “In October 2024, after the financial year end, the Council changed their procurement for care providers and Five Lamps Homecare is no packages.”
- “Due to the previous year filing of 'uncertain going concern' it has not been ethical or appropriate to recruit new Trustees.”
- “During 2023/24, the Directors agreed to pursue an orderly wind down of the Trading Company.”
- “All lending activity using FLT funds ceased on 30th September 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 45 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHAMBERS, Patricia | Director | 2010-08-24 | Apr 1956 | British |
| HOLMES, Vivienne Jane | Director | 2010-09-28 | Sep 1967 | British |
| WATSON, Trevor George | Director | 2012-01-25 | Jan 1946 | British |
Show 45 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALLETT, Joyce | Secretary | 1993-06-01 | 2004-04-06 |
| HALLETT, Joyce | Secretary | — | 1992-04-14 |
| MURPHY, Terence David | Secretary | 2004-03-02 | 2009-11-02 |
| RODHAM, Karen | Secretary | 1992-04-14 | 1993-05-18 |
| BOND, Carole | Director | 2004-02-24 | 2007-04-01 |
| BOWSTEAD, Malcolm | Director | 2010-08-24 | 2014-12-19 |
| BRENNAN, Peter | Director | 2008-02-06 | 2009-11-01 |
| BROWN, Derrick Thomas | Director | 1996-02-21 | 2011-10-25 |
| CHUBB, Caroline | Director | 1994-06-21 | 2003-02-19 |
| CRAGGS, Kenneth William Johnson | Director | 1994-06-21 | 2008-05-27 |
| DALGARNO, Ian John | Director | 2004-04-19 | 2011-05-24 |
| DEAN, Wilfred | Director | 1996-07-09 | 2003-09-21 |
| DEVINE, Marie | Director | 1998-08-25 | 2008-06-24 |
| GODWIN, Raymond, Councillor | Director | 2004-04-19 | 2005-05-05 |
| GRUBB, Ann | Director | 2007-08-14 | 2011-07-19 |
| HALLETT, Joyce | Director | 2004-04-06 | 2009-11-02 |
| HODGSON, Rebecca | Director | 2010-08-24 | 2011-01-31 |
| HOULDERS, Jamie | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2023-07-31 |
| INGRAM, Martyn | Director | 2000-07-05 | 2003-06-03 |
| KIRKHAM, Edmund Damien | Director | 1995-06-20 | 2008-11-27 |
| KITCHEN, Jean | Director | 1994-06-21 | 2002-05-16 |
| LUNN, Stephen, Councillor | Director | 2003-06-03 | 2004-04-19 |
| LYNCH, John | Director | 2003-02-04 | 2009-01-26 |
| MC GEENEY, Peter | Director | — | 1994-12-30 |
| MCMANUS, Charles | Director | 1994-06-21 | 1998-07-14 |
| MURPHY, Terence David | Director | 2004-03-02 | 2011-03-01 |
| NESBITT, Elizabeth Ann, Councillor | Director | 2003-06-03 | 2004-04-19 |
| NORTON, Angela Jane | Director | 1996-01-09 | 2004-01-13 |
| PATTERSON, Diane | Director | 1996-01-09 | 2011-07-19 |
| POOLE, Graham William, Rev | Director | 1996-09-03 | 1998-10-19 |
| POOLE, Michael | Director | 2016-06-29 | 2019-03-29 |
| RICHARDSON, Carole | Director | 2012-06-01 | 2015-02-13 |
| ROBINSON, Beryl | Director | 2008-02-07 | 2011-10-25 |
| ROBSON, Alan Francis | Director | — | 2009-11-02 |
| SLEIGHTHOLME, Christina | Director | 2003-02-04 | 2007-08-13 |
| SPRUCE, Richard | Director | 1994-06-21 | 2011-10-25 |
| STOTT, Tracey | Director | 2008-02-08 | 2009-11-02 |
| THOMPSON, Freda | Director | 1994-06-21 | 1996-11-18 |
| TUCKER, Philip Noel | Director | 2008-06-06 | 2016-03-31 |
| VOUT, Dorothy | Director | 1994-06-21 | 2001-01-09 |
| WALKER, Raymond | Director | 1994-06-21 | 1997-10-07 |
| WALLACE, Angela | Director | 2003-02-04 | 2004-01-13 |
| WALMSLEY, Steve | Director | 2000-07-05 | 2003-06-03 |
| WALMSLEY, Sylvia | Director | 2009-11-02 | 2011-05-24 |
| WRIGHT, Ian Thomas | Director | 2010-08-24 | 2020-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 244 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-29 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-04 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2023-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-08 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-11-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-02-02 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-02-02 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-02-02 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-02-02 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-01-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
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