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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

Accounts

3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-01-012023-12-312024-12-31
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 163180
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

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 2023-01-012023-12-312024-12-31
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 0.58x0.59x
Interest cover 48.12x15.06x

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

  1. SCIENCE (UK) LIMITED 2011-03-08 → present
  2. 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 PDF
2025-09-09 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-02-26 MR04 mortgage Mortgage satisfy charge full PDF
2025-01-07 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-09-11 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-09-02 AD03 address Move registers to sail company with new address PDF
2023-12-05 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2023-10-13 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-08-30 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-01-05 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-10-24 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2022-10-24 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2022-10-24 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2022-09-22 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-06-24 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-05-18 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-03-21 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-12-17 AA01 accounts Change account reference date company previous shortened PDF
2021-09-15 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-06-11 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date 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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