CHAMELEON TECHNOLOGY (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-11 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+2,103.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£5M
-32% vs 2023
Employees
54
+1.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£3M
+10.8% vs 2023
Net assets
7-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
7-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2018-12-31 | 2019-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | — | — | £25,279,851 | £19,014,163 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | — | -£1,790,059 | -£721,302 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | — | — | -£2,965,136 | -£2,644,096 | |
| Net profit | — | — | — | — | — | -£2,601,032 | -£2,323,693 | |
| Cash | — | — | — | — | — | £49,646 | £1,094,076 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | — | — | £8,352,377 | £5,950,798 | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | — | — | £7,257,509 | £4,933,816 | |
| Equity | — | £7,507,635 | — | — | £9,858,541 | £7,257,509 | £4,933,816 | |
| Average employees | — | — | — | — | — | 53 | 54 | |
| Wages | — | — | — | — | — | £2,714,554 | £2,579,300 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | — | — | £530,487 | £558,221 |
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
-24.8%
£25,279,851 £19,014,163
-
Cash
+2,103.8%
£49,646 £1,094,076
-
Net assets
-32%
£7,257,509 £4,933,816
-
Employees
+1.9%
53 54
-
Operating profit
+59.7%
-£1,790,059 -£721,302
-
Profit before tax
+10.8%
-£2,965,136 -£2,644,096
-
Wages
-5%
£2,714,554 £2,579,300
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 | 2018-12-31 | 2019-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | — | — | — | -7.1% | -3.8% | |
| Net margin | — | — | — | — | — | -10.3% | -12.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | — | — | — | -21.4% | -12.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | — | — | — | 58.0% | 59.5% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | — | — | 1.05x | 0.75x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | — | — | — | -9.36x | -4.69x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Counting North
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Despite the underperformance in recent years the Directors have, at the time of approving the financial statements, a reasonable expectation that the company has access to adequate resources to continue to trade to December 2026 and as a consequence have adopted the going concern basis of accounting in preparing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- CHAMELEON TECHNOLOGY (UK) LIMITED · parent
- Chameleon Technology (HK) Ltd 100%
- Chameleon Smart Energy Pty Ltd 100%
- Gengame Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “A strategic review of our operations and positioning was undertaken over the course of 2024 and into 2025. These are one-off activities which are not forecast to recur in future years and as such have been classified as exceptional items.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, Alastair Ian | Director | 2025-06-19 | Sep 1972 | British |
| CAREY, Carmen Christine | Director | 2025-06-19 | Oct 1962 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN, Gary John | Secretary | 2010-09-27 | 2020-12-23 |
| ALLISON, Graeme | Director | 2018-02-20 | 2020-12-23 |
| ALLISON, Martin | Director | 2018-02-20 | 2020-12-23 |
| BOYLE, Timothy John | Director | 2018-02-20 | 2020-12-23 |
| BROWN, Alastair Ian | Director | 2020-12-23 | 2021-01-14 |
| HIGGINS, Wendy Elizabeth | Director | 2020-12-23 | 2025-07-31 |
| MARTIN, Gary John | Director | 2010-09-27 | 2020-12-23 |
| STEPHENSON, John Craig | Director | 2020-12-23 | 2022-08-12 |
| WOODHALL, Michael Eric | Director | 2010-09-27 | 2024-07-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chameleon Technology Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-12-23 | Active |
| Mr Gary John Martin | Individual | Shares 50–75% | 2016-09-01 | Ceased 2020-12-23 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 92 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-24 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-16 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-08-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-03-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.