KCOM HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-18 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£18M
+130.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£144M
+0.4% vs 2024
Employees
697
-8.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£2M
-139.5% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Telecommunications median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £101,874,000 | £96,203,000 | |
| Operating profit | £6,738,000 | -£1,066,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,585,000 | -£2,206,000 | |
| Net profit | £5,542,000 | £882,000 | |
| Cash | £7,666,000 | £17,639,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £167,413,000 | £160,843,000 | |
| Net assets | £143,484,000 | £144,065,000 | |
| Equity | £143,484,000 | £144,065,000 | |
| Average employees | 765 | 697 | |
| Wages | £32,436,000 | £31,902,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £828,000 | £1,158,000 |
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-5.6%
£101,874,000 £96,203,000
-
Cash
+130.1%
£7,666,000 £17,639,000
-
Net assets
+0.4%
£143,484,000 £144,065,000
-
Employees
-8.9%
765 697
-
Operating profit
-115.8%
£6,738,000 -£1,066,000
-
Profit before tax
-139.5%
£5,585,000 -£2,206,000
-
Wages
-1.6%
£32,436,000 £31,902,000
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.6% | -1.1% | |
| Net margin | 5.4% | 0.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.0% | -0.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 41.1% | 32.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.45x | 0.73x | |
| Interest cover | 3.92x | -0.79x |
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
- KCOM HOLDINGS LIMITED 2016-04-14 → present
- KINGSTON COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED 1997-03-26 → 2016-04-14
- TAKETAPE LIMITED 1997-02-13 → 1997-03-26
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“During 2025, the KCOM Group (inclusive of this Company "the Group") commenced negotiations with its lenders and shareholders to restructure its current capital structure, in order that the Group's capital structure is sustainable and allows the Group to continue as a best-in-class provider of connectivity services to its customers and to meet its obligations as they become due. An agreement has been reached in February 2026, to capitalise interest and reset covenants. The amended facility continues to mature in September 2027. In parallel with the amended facility, the Group has entered into an agreement (the Agreement) with its lenders and shareholder. The Agreement may result in a sale, a sale of assets or a reorganisation. The directors cannot reasonably assess the outcome of the Agreement, which is expected to conclude within the going concern assessment period. Under the Agreement all outcomes cannot be fully assessed at the date of the approval of these financial statements, and as such represent events or conditions which indicate a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt on the Group's and company's ability to continue as a going concern. After making enquiries and taking into account the material uncertainty referred to above, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The Company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Subsequent to the year end the available terms of the loan were amended such that outstanding interest was capitalised and covenants amended.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 33 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROSS, Kenneth | Director | 2025-07-31 | Apr 1967 | British |
| SCHAEFER, Richard Wolfgang Henry | Director | 2025-02-28 | Mar 1971 | British |
Show 33 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAILEY, John Philip Cureton | Secretary | 1997-04-01 | 2006-04-24 |
| JONES, Sarah Elizabeth | Secretary | 2018-11-05 | 2019-12-09 |
| MCDONALD, Elizabeth Mary | Secretary | 2009-04-14 | 2009-11-20 |
| MILLER, Nicola Jane | Secretary | 2009-11-20 | 2010-07-16 |
| PEAK, Katherine Elizabeth | Secretary | 1997-03-05 | 1997-04-01 |
| PEARSON, Matthew Edward | Secretary | 2019-12-09 | 2023-08-25 |
| ROBINSON, Denise Brenda | Secretary | 2006-04-24 | 2009-04-01 |
| SMITH, Katharine Olivia Helen | Secretary | 2010-07-16 | 2018-08-21 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1997-02-13 | 1997-03-05 |
| BAILEY, John Philip Cureton | Director | 1997-04-01 | 2001-03-23 |
| BIELBY, Anna Catherine | Director | 2018-10-15 | 2019-12-31 |
| BOOTH, Samantha Rosemary Jane | Director | 2021-09-29 | 2022-12-15 |
| COPE, Clifford Ross | Director | 1997-10-23 | 2000-09-29 |
| FALLEN, Malcolm James | Director | 2001-03-02 | 2008-12-10 |
| GOWER, Neil Geoffrey | Director | 1997-12-15 | 2001-03-23 |
| HALBERT, William George | Director | 2009-07-29 | 2018-11-29 |
| HENRY, Richard John | Director | 1997-12-15 | 2000-12-14 |
| HUTCHISON, Carolyn Stirling | Director | 2023-08-25 | 2025-02-28 |
| JACKSON, Graham Denis | Director | 1997-04-01 | 2001-03-23 |
| KAPLAN, David Arye | Director | 1997-03-05 | 1997-04-01 |
| KEDDIE, Ernest David Robertson | Director | 1997-12-15 | 2001-03-23 |
| LINGUARD, Ernest William | Director | 1997-04-01 | 2001-03-23 |
| MAINE, Steven | Director | 1997-10-23 | 2003-09-10 |
| MCKENZIE, Ian Robert | Director | 2000-06-22 | 2002-03-31 |
| MONKS, Geoffrey | Director | 1998-07-14 | 1999-11-15 |
| PEAK, Katherine Elizabeth | Director | 1997-03-05 | 1997-04-01 |
| PEARSON, Matthew Edward | Director | 2021-02-15 | 2023-08-25 |
| RANEBERG, Dale Wayne | Director | 2019-11-14 | 2022-04-20 |
| SHAW, Tim | Director | 2022-04-28 | 2025-07-31 |
| SIMPSON, Paul Simon | Director | 2005-04-18 | 2016-10-11 |
| SUTHERLAND, Graham | Director | 2018-10-15 | 2019-10-22 |
| TONG, Alexander William | Director | 2019-12-31 | 2021-03-31 |
| INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1997-02-13 | 1997-03-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kcom Group Plc | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2017-02-13 | Ceased 2017-02-13 |
| Kch (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2017-02-13 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 155 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-28 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-12-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-29 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-03-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.