FIRST CHOICE HOLIDAYS FINANCE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-25 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£797M
+93.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£248M
-2.8% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£17M
-79.6% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £76,723,000 | £20,976,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £82,158,000 | £16,764,000 | |
| Net profit | £75,713,000 | £13,661,000 | |
| Cash | £411,679,000 | £796,633,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £266,477,000 | £286,990,000 | |
| Net assets | £254,689,000 | £247,595,000 | |
| Equity | £254,689,000 | £247,595,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £28,000 | £28,000 |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+93.5%
£411,679,000 £796,633,000
-
Net assets
-2.8%
£254,689,000 £247,595,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-72.7%
£76,723,000 £20,976,000
-
Profit before tax
-79.6%
£82,158,000 £16,764,000
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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 28.8% | 7.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 88.0% | 88.9% | |
| Current ratio | 46.40x | 107.99x | |
| Interest cover | 0.46x | 0.17x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In June 2025, TUI AG, agreed to provide financial support to the Company in order that it can continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due, for the period of at least 12 months from the approval date of the financial statements. As with any Company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, the Directors acknowledge that there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements they have a reasonable expectation that it will.”
Significant events
- “On 21 March 2025, the Company, jointly and severally, along with several other fellow group undertakings entered into an agreement to provide certain financial guarantees to the lenders of certain borrowings of TUI AG. This agreement ended the previous agreement under which the Company provided financial guarantees relating to borrowings of TUI AG which have since been refinanced.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARTENS, Corvin | Director | 2023-07-01 | Apr 1986 | German |
| OVERTON-SMITH, Nicholas James | Director | 2015-10-21 | Jan 1974 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| STARLING, Rebecca Jean Godwin | Secretary | 2000-10-25 | 2001-04-05 |
| WALTER, Joyce | Secretary | 2001-04-05 | 2015-12-18 |
| BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2000-10-23 | 2000-10-25 |
| CASE, Stuart | Director | 2011-07-18 | 2015-01-19 |
| CLARKE, Jonathan Paul | Director | 2001-03-20 | 2002-04-30 |
| HOWELL, David | Director | 2000-10-25 | 2001-05-03 |
| JOHN, Andrew Lloyd | Director | 2007-10-15 | 2014-01-20 |
| KAISER, Bernd, Dr | Director | 2015-01-16 | 2023-07-01 |
| LEACY, John Paul | Director | 2002-09-16 | 2011-06-30 |
| MARTIN, Andrew David | Director | 2001-09-28 | 2004-03-11 |
| MCGRAYNOR, David Philip | Director | 2006-09-11 | 2008-08-26 |
| MEE, Darren | Director | 2002-04-30 | 2006-09-11 |
| TINDALL, Eileen Cora | Director | 2000-10-25 | 2002-07-12 |
| WALTER, Joyce | Director | 2015-01-16 | 2015-11-30 |
| WHEATLEY, Richard Stuart | Director | 2008-08-26 | 2015-01-19 |
| BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2000-10-23 | 2000-10-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice Holidays Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 110 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-02-22 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-02-22 MA Memorandum articles
- 2020-12-24 MA Memorandum articles
- 2020-12-24 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-03 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-05-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-24 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-07-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-02-22 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-02-22 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2020-12-24 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2020-12-24 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2020-12-16 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares |
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.