SYNCONA DISCOVERY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-22 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-75.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£30M
-31.5% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£5M
-295.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £88,087 | £224,613 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,578,967 | -£5,044,128 | |
| Net profit | £2,578,967 | -£5,044,128 | |
| Cash | £9,086,545 | £2,240,767 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £43,053,893 | £29,509,765 | |
| Net assets | £43,053,893 | £29,509,765 | |
| Equity | £43,053,893 | £29,509,765 | |
| 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
-75.3%
£9,086,545 £2,240,767
-
Net assets
-31.5%
£43,053,893 £29,509,765
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+155%
£88,087 £224,613
-
Profit before tax
-295.6%
£2,578,967 -£5,044,128
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 0.2% | 0.8% | |
| Current ratio | 471.27x | 64.01x |
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 2 times since incorporation
- SYNCONA DISCOVERY LIMITED 2016-12-30 → present
- BACIT DISCOVERY LIMITED 2014-12-23 → 2016-12-30
- BACIT CHK1 INVESTMENT LIMITED 2013-11-08 → 2014-12-23
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors, have reviewed the cash flow, projected income and expenses over the next 12 months and based on the assessment of the Company's financial position, believe that the Company has the ability to continue in operational existence for 12 months following the approval of the financial statements. Thus, it continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Significant events
- “On 13 December 2024, the company passed a special resolution to perform a capital reduction, which resulted in a reduction in share capital of 9,764,180, and a resulting cash distribution of 8,500,000 to the Partnership.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUTLER, Katherine Elizabeth | Director | 2024-12-16 | Mar 1981 | British |
| JONIKAS, Magdalena Anna | Director | 2024-12-16 | Apr 1984 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADSHAW, John | Director | 2017-01-17 | 2021-07-31 |
| HENDERSON, Thomas Alexander Gavin, The Hon. | Director | 2013-11-08 | 2017-01-17 |
| HOLLOWOOD, Christopher John, Dr | Director | 2023-01-01 | 2024-12-16 |
| LUNN, Gregory, John | Director | 2013-11-08 | 2014-05-16 |
| MURPHY, Martin Patrick | Director | 2017-01-17 | 2023-01-01 |
| SODERSTROM, Rolf Kristian Berndtson | Director | 2021-08-01 | 2024-12-16 |
| THOMAS, Martin Nicholas Caleb | Director | 2014-05-16 | 2017-01-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacit Investments Lp Incorporated | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| Syncona Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 92 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-13 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-09 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-12-09 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-09 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-11-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-13 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2024-12-13 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2024-12-13 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2024-12-13 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 4
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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.