MERSEY BIOENERGY LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-02 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
-67.8% vs 2023
Net assets
-£59M
-10.1% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£4M
+68.7% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Utilities median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,992,000 | £27,994,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,378,000 | £7,626,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£12,511,000 | -£3,916,000 | |
| Net profit | -£9,749,000 | -£5,377,000 | |
| Cash | £19,925,000 | £6,419,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£5,314,000 | £80,365,000 | |
| Net assets | -£53,249,000 | -£58,626,000 | |
| Equity | -£53,249,000 | -£58,626,000 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £73,000 | £0 |
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
+12%
£24,992,000 £27,994,000
-
Cash
-67.8%
£19,925,000 £6,419,000
-
Net assets
-10.1%
-£53,249,000 -£58,626,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+125.8%
£3,378,000 £7,626,000
-
Profit before tax
+68.7%
-£12,511,000 -£3,916,000
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 13.5% | 27.2% | |
| Net margin | -39.0% | -19.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | -63.6% | 9.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 154.6% | 169.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.24x | 4.07x | |
| Interest cover | 0.21x | 0.65x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Annual Report and Financial Statements.”
Significant events
- “During 2023, a new debt facility was agreed by Evero Energy Holdings Limited. Amounts from this facility were used by the Evero Group to acquire the outstanding external debt and minority shareholdings in MBHL. This transaction completed in August 2023 for a total consideration of £98,207,000.”
- “During 2023, as part of the change in ownership of the Company's immediate parent company Mersey Bioenergy Holdings Limited, the then extant senior debt was repaid on 3rd August 2023 and replaced with an inter-company loan to Mersey Bioenergy Holdings Limited. On 1st January 2024 the terms of this loan were updated, with the entire balance now falling due after one year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, Mark Stephen | Director | 2023-09-25 | Mar 1980 | British |
| WARNER, Angus James | Director | 2025-10-06 | Apr 1979 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MITCHELL, Ailison Louise | Secretary | 2015-02-09 | 2019-08-01 |
| JORDAN COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2012-12-21 | 2015-01-21 |
| ANDERSEN, Karsten Riis | Director | 2014-08-05 | 2014-11-20 |
| BENNETT, Neil Mather Jackson | Director | 2020-06-08 | 2021-01-13 |
| BUTCHER, Richard Edward Charles | Director | 2012-12-21 | 2019-02-28 |
| GRUNDTVIG, Christian | Director | 2012-12-21 | 2021-01-13 |
| JENKINS, Richard Neil | Director | 2020-06-02 | 2023-08-03 |
| KENT, Philip William | Director | 2014-11-20 | 2016-05-06 |
| KONGERSLEV, Michael | Director | 2012-12-21 | 2014-08-05 |
| MATTHEWS, Paige Victoria | Director | 2024-03-18 | 2025-10-06 |
| MAYO, Andrew Neil | Director | 2022-01-12 | 2024-08-20 |
| MCPHERSON, Robert Hamish | Director | 2018-09-27 | 2020-06-08 |
| MONTAGU, Alan | Director | 2016-05-02 | 2018-09-27 |
| RICHARDSON, Andrew | Director | 2021-01-13 | 2021-12-14 |
| SMITH, Michael Robert | Director | 2012-12-21 | 2014-11-20 |
| STREET, Andrew | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2019-09-18 |
| STREET, Andrew | Director | 2014-11-20 | 2015-03-31 |
| VALSTED LARSEN, Karsten | Director | 2021-01-13 | 2023-08-03 |
| WHAWELL, Benjamin Mark | Director | 2019-02-28 | 2020-06-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mersey Bioenergy Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-12-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 83 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-31 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-27 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control without name date | |
| 2023-10-26 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-09-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-01-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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.