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Next accounts due

2026-12-31 (in 7mo)

Last filed for 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-10-27 (in 5mo)

Last made up 2025-10-13

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£990K

+13.5% vs 2024

Net assets

£1M

+8.4% vs 2024

Employees

21

+5% vs 2024

Profit before tax

£131K

-41.1% vs 2024

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31

Metric Trend 2024-03-312025-03-31
Turnover £2,119,225£2,227,871
Operating profit £41,581-£59,347
Profit before tax £222,054£130,850
Net profit £190,939£109,844
Cash £872,448£990,036
Total assets less current liabilities £1,313,456£1,429,288
Net assets £1,308,552£1,418,396
Equity £1,308,552£1,418,396
Average employees 2021
Wages £806,354£822,848
Directors' remuneration £138,952£143,535

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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31

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 2024-03-312025-03-31
Operating margin 2.0%-2.7%
Net margin 9.0%4.9%
Return on capital employed 3.2%-4.2%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 32.3%29.7%
Current ratio 3.07x3.33x

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

  1. GHC CAPITAL MARKETS LTD. 2007-05-31 → present
  2. GOY HARRIS CARTWRIGHT & COMPANY LIMITED 1995-11-09 → 2007-05-31
  3. MEGAFORMAT LIMITED 1995-10-13 → 1995-11-09

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis
FRS 102
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
Hillier Hopkins LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The directors believe that the company is well placed to manage its business and operational risks successfully within this economic landscape. The directors prepare stress tests that it updates and reviews, which help plan the company's actions in scenarios such as a large fall in the financial markets or a decline in the company's asset under management. The current economic situation falls within the planned scenario scope. The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company will have adequate financial resources together with a strong Statement of Financial Position and cash resources to continue to operate for the foreseeable future and they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements. In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

5 active · 13 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
STORER, Richard Secretary 2009-04-30 British
HARDY, Rachel Katheryn Director 2015-03-18 May 1969 British
HARRIS, Paul Raymond Director 1995-11-01 Nov 1968 British
SALLIS, William Director 2019-06-11 Feb 1981 British
STORER, Richard James Director 2015-06-15 Feb 1977 British
Show 13 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
AUSTEN, Graham Norman Secretary 2006-08-18 2009-04-30
CARTWRIGHT, John Anthony Secretary 1995-11-01 2001-11-22
DESMOND, Martin John Secretary 2001-11-22 2006-08-18
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED Corporate Nominee Secretary 1995-10-13 1995-11-01
CARTWRIGHT, John Anthony Director 1995-11-01 2001-11-22
CLARKE, John Ashley Director 2005-03-21 2015-03-27
DESMOND, Martin John Director 2001-11-22 2006-08-18
GOY, David Director 1995-11-01 2002-12-02
HALL, Michael Thomas Director 2000-07-10 2003-07-30
NICOL, Ian Trevor Director 2000-04-01 2018-12-31
VAUGHAN, Martin Ashley Director 2012-03-05 2014-07-31
WERNER, Eric Jay Director 2005-09-27 2010-06-04
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED Corporate Nominee Director 1995-10-13 1995-11-01

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Ghc Group Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2023-09-20 Active
Ghc Group Ltd Corporate entity Shares 75–100% 2016-04-06 Ceased 2023-09-20

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 117 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2025-11-17 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-11-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-10-23 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-10-21 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-12-18 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type total exemption full
2023-10-27 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-09-20 PSC02 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2023-09-20 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2022-10-18 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-09-08 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-12-19 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-10-19 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-04-13 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2020-10-19 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2020-01-22 AA01 accounts Change account reference date company current extended PDF
2019-10-22 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-07-30 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2019-07-24 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2018-12-31 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2018-11-02 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

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