SCIENCE (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-12 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+184% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£33M
+18.2% vs 2023
Employees
180
+10.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£5M
-39.1% vs 2023
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-01-01 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £14,248,309 | £11,153,710 | |
| Operating profit | — | £8,555,125 | £5,466,021 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £8,377,355 | £5,103,006 | |
| Net profit | — | £7,437,552 | £5,049,740 | |
| Cash | £426,618 | £635,796 | £1,805,508 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £28,924,089 | £33,716,265 | |
| Net assets | — | £27,731,548 | £32,781,288 | |
| Equity | £20,293,996 | £27,731,548 | £32,781,288 | |
| Average employees | — | 163 | 180 | |
| Wages | — | £6,615,665 | £7,320,300 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £436,268 | £423,768 |
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 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-21.7%
£14,248,309 £11,153,710
-
Cash
+184%
£635,796 £1,805,508
highest in 3 filed years
-
Net assets
+18.2%
£27,731,548 £32,781,288
-
Employees
+10.4%
163 180
-
Operating profit
-36.1%
£8,555,125 £5,466,021
-
Profit before tax
-39.1%
£8,377,355 £5,103,006
-
Wages
+10.7%
£6,615,665 £7,320,300
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 | 2023-01-01 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 60.0% | 49.0% | |
| Net margin | — | 52.2% | 45.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 29.6% | 16.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 78.2% | 75.3% | |
| Current ratio | — | 0.58x | 0.59x | |
| Interest cover | — | 48.12x | 15.06x |
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 1 time since incorporation
- SCIENCE (UK) LIMITED 2011-03-08 → present
- SCIENCE LIMITED 1997-08-29 → 2011-03-08
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Rawlinson & Hunter Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company's operation is to create artworks to be sold to Science Limited, its parent company, and to manage the operations of Science Limited and its subsidiaries ("the group"). The company is therefore a cost based company with limited ability to generate third party revenue and cash flows independently. Together, the company is a party to cross guarantee on the loan facilities of its parent company and therefore the company's ability to continue as a going concern is reliant on the ability of its parent company and the group as a whole to generate cash and operate within its available credit facilities to be able to continue as a going concern. The directors have prepared cashflow forecasts for the group to 31 December 2026 and are confident that the company will be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due for a period of twelve months from the signing of the financial statements. The group's bank facilities combined with the business plan of the group will provide the company with sufficient facilities to meet the cash flow requirements for at least twelve months from the aproval of these financial statments. Based on their assessments the directors consider that the adoption of the going concern basis of preparation is appropriate.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIRST, Cassius | Director | 2022-10-24 | Apr 2000 | British |
| HIRST, Connor Ojala Brennan | Director | 2022-10-24 | Apr 1995 | British |
| HIRST, Cyrus | Director | 2022-10-24 | Aug 2005 | British |
| HIRST, Damien Steven | Director | 1997-08-29 | Jun 1965 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNPHY, Erskine Francis | Secretary | 1997-08-29 | 2010-12-31 |
| KELLY, James Cameron | Secretary | 2010-04-01 | 2017-07-20 |
| EDEN SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 1997-08-29 | 1997-08-29 |
| ALLAN, Hugh Miller | Director | 1997-09-17 | 2018-10-12 |
| BEARD, Jason | Director | 2015-10-30 | 2022-05-03 |
| DUNPHY, Erskine Francis | Director | 2010-04-01 | 2010-12-31 |
| HIRST, Connor Ojala Brennan | Director | 2021-05-26 | 2022-06-23 |
| KELLY, James Cameron | Director | 2010-04-01 | 2017-07-31 |
| PARK, Sylvia | Director | 2015-10-30 | 2017-04-01 |
| TYRELL, Jude | Director | 2004-06-08 | 2017-05-31 |
| EDEN CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 1997-08-29 | 1997-08-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Damien Steven Hirst | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 122 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-26 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-02 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2023-12-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-10-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-03-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-17 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2021-09-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
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.