COVENTRY DISTRICT ENERGY COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2025-12-31
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-14 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-31
Watchouts
Cash
£34K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
-£2M
+0.7% vs 2022
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£110K
-210% vs 2022
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2025-12-31.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Utilities median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,416,000 | £1,699,000 | |
| Operating profit | £241,000 | £226,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £100,000 | -£110,000 | |
| Net profit | £7,000 | £11,000 | |
| Cash | — | £34,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£1,590,000 | -£1,579,000 | |
| Net assets | -£1,590,000 | -£1,579,000 | |
| Equity | -£1,590,000 | -£1,579,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
-
Turnover
+20%
£1,416,000 £1,699,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+0.7%
-£1,590,000 -£1,579,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-6.2%
£241,000 £226,000
-
Profit before tax
-210%
£100,000 -£110,000
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 17.0% | 13.3% | |
| Net margin | 0.5% | 0.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | -15.2% | -14.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 128.1% | 127.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.11x | 0.13x | |
| Interest cover | 1.71x | 0.67x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have, at the time of approving the financial statements, an expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the period to 31 July 2026. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “On 15 September 2023, Equans Holding UK Limited signed a Share Purchase Agreement with a consortium formed by Swiss Life Asset Managers and Schroders Greencoat LLP for the sale of its district heating business in the United Kingdom ("UK"). Coventry District Energy Company Limited ("the Company") was part of the UK portfolio included in the sale.”
- “The sale was completed on 31 December 2023, when Bring Energy Group Limited (formerly Burnie Bidco Limited) acquired Bring Energy Concessions Limited (formerly Equans DE Holding Company Limited) ("BECL").”
- “As such, from 31 December 2023, the ultimate parent of the Company changed from Bouygues S.A. to Swiss Life Holding AG. Swiss Life Holding AG is the ultimate parent company of Bring Energy Group Limited (formerly Burnie Bidco Limited).”
- “In 2024, as part of the integration activities to Bring Energy group along with the purchase price allocation exercise, a detailed review of the balance sheet and fixed assets was conducted. This review resulted in the discovery of an error in the accounting treatment of the service concession agreement entered into by the Company and the council.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN, Emma | Secretary | 2025-05-20 | — | — |
| O'NEIL, Paul | Director | 2025-11-12 | Mar 1970 | British |
| RAYMOND, Mark Charles | Director | 2023-12-31 | Jun 1970 | British |
| ROGER-LUND, Suzanne | Director | 2025-05-20 | Feb 1970 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOOTH, Michael Andrew | Secretary | 2012-05-31 | 2014-03-31 |
| CHIODINI, James Peter | Secretary | 2023-12-31 | 2025-02-14 |
| GREGORY, Sarah | Secretary | 2015-05-01 | 2022-07-15 |
| MOENS, Pieter Marie Gustaaf | Secretary | 2022-07-16 | 2023-12-31 |
| TUDOR, Simone | Secretary | 2014-03-31 | 2015-01-05 |
| BLUMBERGER, Richard John | Director | 2014-12-16 | 2016-01-31 |
| BOOTH, Michael Andrew | Director | 2012-05-31 | 2014-03-31 |
| BURRELL, Richard | Director | 2023-12-31 | 2025-05-02 |
| GRAHAM, James Peter Hamilton | Director | 2021-08-05 | 2023-12-31 |
| HALE, Colin Stephen | Director | 2012-05-31 | 2014-12-16 |
| HARDMAN, Steven | Director | 2025-05-20 | 2025-10-20 |
| HART, Andrew David | Director | 2018-01-01 | 2021-11-30 |
| KITCHEN, Lee John | Director | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| KYRIACOS, David William | Director | 2023-12-31 | 2024-11-21 |
| LAIDLAW, Paul | Director | 2012-06-18 | 2014-12-16 |
| LALA, Bilal Hashim | Director | 2022-03-01 | 2023-06-30 |
| PROCTOR, Gary | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2018-01-09 |
| RAWSON, Paul Edwin | Director | 2014-12-16 | 2018-01-09 |
| SHERIDAN, David Anthony | Director | 2018-01-01 | 2018-09-30 |
| THOMAS, Luke Martyn | Director | 2012-06-18 | 2014-12-16 |
| WATTS, Benjamin | Director | 2012-06-18 | 2014-09-09 |
| WOODWARD, Simon Mark | Director | 2012-05-31 | 2014-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bring Energy Services Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 95 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-14 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-02 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-11-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-20 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-05-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-19 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-16 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-25 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-04 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2024-01-04 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2024-01-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 2
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.