NODE 4 LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-22 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-08
Watchouts
Cash
£12M
+76.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£82M
+5.1% vs 2024
Employees
600
+28.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4M
-45.1% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £103,624,000 | £126,568,000 | |
| Operating profit | £8,126,000 | £4,489,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £7,915,000 | £4,349,000 | |
| Net profit | £8,213,000 | £3,958,000 | |
| Cash | £6,785,000 | £11,948,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £79,925,000 | £87,780,000 | |
| Net assets | £77,711,000 | £81,669,000 | |
| Equity | £77,711,000 | £81,669,000 | |
| Average employees | 467 | 600 | |
| Wages | £22,647,000 | £30,938,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £737,000 | £973,000 |
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
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Turnover
+22.1%
£103,624,000 £126,568,000
-
Cash
+76.1%
£6,785,000 £11,948,000
-
Net assets
+5.1%
£77,711,000 £81,669,000
-
Employees
+28.5%
467 600
-
Operating profit
-44.8%
£8,126,000 £4,489,000
-
Profit before tax
-45.1%
£7,915,000 £4,349,000
-
Wages
+36.6%
£22,647,000 £30,938,000
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 | 7.8% | 3.5% | |
| Net margin | 7.9% | 3.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.2% | 5.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.52x | 1.68x | |
| Interest cover | 27.92x | 14.07x |
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
- NODE 4 LIMITED 2003-09-08 → present
- WILLOUGHBY (444) LIMITED 2003-05-12 → 2003-09-08
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In preparing the financial statements on a going concern basis, the directors have considered the group's funding structure, financial forecasts, and the associated risks and mitigations. This reflects the company's current liquidity position within wider group facilities, which are secured by charges over the company's assets.”
Group structure
- NODE 4 LIMITED · parent
- Node4 FZE
- Node4 Consulting LLC
- Starcom Technologies Limited
- Node 4 Managed Services Inc
- Node4 Hosting Limited
- Ensco 1032 Limited
- Secura Hosting Ltd
- Onomi Limited
- The Nav People (Portugal) Unipessoal LDA
- Vedbaek (Ireland) Limited
Significant events
- “Existing group shareholders contributed £10m of equity in December 2025 to support the capital structure and for working capital purposes. Post the year end, £13.1m was drawn down from the group's borrowing facilities for working capital and general corporate purposes.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 24 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRAFTON, Mark David | Director | 2025-08-21 | Jan 1975 | British |
| WOODHOUSE, Christopher Kevin | Director | 2025-12-04 | Jun 1961 | British |
Show 24 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILBERT, Andrew | Secretary | 2003-09-01 | 2005-03-10 |
| LATHAM, Paula | Secretary | 2004-11-01 | 2010-03-31 |
| MCELVANEY, Stephen Dominic | Secretary | 2010-03-31 | 2013-05-23 |
| WILLOUGHBY CORPORATE SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2003-05-12 | 2003-09-01 |
| BAKER, Russell Edward James | Director | 2014-02-26 | 2018-05-31 |
| BRYCE, Paul | Director | 2013-05-24 | 2025-03-07 |
| BUXTON, Richard David | Director | 2010-12-23 | 2010-12-23 |
| DRAPER, Martin | Director | 2013-05-24 | 2016-10-04 |
| GILBERT, Andrew Paul | Director | 2003-09-01 | 2025-06-06 |
| GILBERT, Keeley Louise | Director | 2013-05-24 | 2016-10-04 |
| GOLDIE, David Carruth | Director | 2013-05-24 | 2016-10-04 |
| GREEN, John Charles | Director | 2013-07-02 | 2016-10-04 |
| KAY, Jonathan Walton | Director | 2022-02-17 | 2025-08-18 |
| KELLER, Leon Benjamin Asher | Director | 2018-05-31 | 2022-02-17 |
| LYNDON, Andrew Steven | Director | 2013-05-24 | 2013-07-02 |
| MCELVANEY, Stephen Dominic | Director | 2010-12-23 | 2010-12-23 |
| MOSELEY, Richard | Director | 2025-06-30 | 2025-10-27 |
| SHELTON, David Edward | Director | 2010-12-23 | 2013-03-21 |
| SHELTON, David Edward | Director | 2003-09-01 | 2010-12-23 |
| WALDRON, Bernard Joseph | Director | 2013-05-24 | 2016-10-04 |
| WARREN, Gary | Director | 2010-12-23 | 2012-07-19 |
| WARREN, Gary | Director | 2003-09-01 | 2010-12-23 |
| WARREN, Lynne | Director | 2012-03-05 | 2013-05-24 |
| WILLOUGHBY CORPORATE REGISTRARS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2003-05-12 | 2003-09-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowmark Gp Llp | Corporate entity | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-10-25 | Ceased 2018-05-27 |
| Bowmark Capital Llp | Corporate entity | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-10-25 | Ceased 2016-10-25 |
| Node 4 Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-10-03 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 149 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-07-18 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-07-12 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-18 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-07-12 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-05-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-02-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-11-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 3
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.