BIG ISSUE GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED

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

• Turnover

  +10.2%

  £11,833,313 → £13,042,949

• Cash

  -13.7%

  £7,594,495 → £6,552,578

• Net assets

  +0.6%

  £2,388,896 → £2,402,291

• Employees

  -12.5%

  144 → 126

• Operating profit

  +113.3%

  -£503,516 → £66,887

• Profit before tax

  +134.1%

  -£495,658 → £168,904

• Wages

  -1.5%

  £6,500,066 → £6,401,930

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

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.

1. BIG ISSUE GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED 2024-08-09 → present
2. THE BIG ISSUE GROUP LIMITED 2011-11-10 → 2024-08-09
3. THE BIG ISSUE HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED 2008-12-11 → 2011-11-10

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's or the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. BIG ISSUE GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
   1. Big Issue Media Limited (formerly The Big Issue Company Limited) 100% · England and Wales
   2. Big Issue Invest Limited 100% · England and Wales
   3. Big Issue Group Limited (formerly The Bag Issue Ltd)* 100% · England and Wales
   4. Prevention Convention Ltd* 100% · England and Wales
   5. Big Issue Impact Ltd (formerly Big Issue Recruit Ltd) 100% · England and Wales
   6. The Big Issue in Scotland Limited* 100% · Scotland
   7. The Big Issue Cymru Limited* 100% · England and Wales
   8. The Social Brokers Foundation* 100% · England and Wales
   9. Big Issue Invest Corporate Social Venturing Ltd 100% · England and Wales
   10. Big Issue Invest Fund Management Ltd 100% · England and Wales
   11. Big Issue Social Investments Limited 100% · England and Wales
   12. Big Issue Access Limited 100% · England and Wales
   13. Growth Impact GP Ltd 100% · England and Wales
   14. Growth Impact GP Sub Ltd 100% · England and Wales

Significant events

• “During the year, the trade of Big Issue Impact Ltd, a fellow group company, was hived across into Big Issue Changing Lives CIC.”
• “Big Issue Group Limited was introduced as an intermediate holding company and it now directly owns the subsidiaries that were previously directly held by Big Issue Group Holdings Limited.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.