CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS OPERATIONS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-06 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-22
Watchouts
Cash
£4K
-0.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£466K
0% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£37K
+447.4% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The activity of the Company ceased on 31 January 2023. As explained in Note 1, these financial statements have not been prepared on a going concern basis.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £6,721 | £36,792 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,721 | £36,792 | |
| Net profit | £6,721 | £36,792 | |
| Cash | £3,643 | £3,613 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £465,926 | £465,896 | |
| Net assets | £465,926 | £465,896 | |
| Equity | £465,926 | £465,896 | |
| 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 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
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Turnover
—
Not reported
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Cash
-0.8%
£3,643 £3,613
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Net assets
0%
£465,926 £465,896
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Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+447.4%
£6,721 £36,792
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Profit before tax
+447.4%
£6,721 £36,792
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 | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 1.4% | 7.9% |
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 1 time since incorporation
- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS OPERATIONS LIMITED 2014-12-02 → present
- FRIARS 704 LIMITED 2014-10-16 → 2014-12-02
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The activity of the Company ceased on 31 January 2023. As explained in Note 1, these financial statements have not been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “The activity of the Company ceased on 31 January 2023.”
- “Since 1 February 2023, the Company has been non-trading.”
- “It is the intention of the directors to voluntarily liquidate the Company within a period of twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements.”
- “From 1 February 2023, a new Group subsidiary, named Cambridge Press & Assessment Operations India Private Limited, was incorporated in India to take over the activities of the Company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KELLY, Fiona Margaret | Secretary | 2022-01-18 | — | — |
| CHESTER, Gregory Paul | Director | 2018-08-14 | Oct 1976 | New Zealander |
| COOPER, Robert James Lambert | Director | 2018-01-17 | Aug 1973 | British |
| WHITEHOUSE, Mark | Director | 2025-05-01 | Jul 1969 | British |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUDDIMAN, Sally-Anne | Secretary | 2014-10-16 | 2022-01-18 |
| BOWES, William Alexander | Director | 2014-10-16 | 2015-02-09 |
| MADDOCKS, Mark Charles Dobell | Director | 2014-10-16 | 2025-04-30 |
| TOMKINS, Neil | Director | 2016-03-02 | 2017-11-10 |
| WHITEHOUSE, Mark | Director | 2015-02-09 | 2018-08-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 44 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-07 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-08 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-02-06 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2021-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-08-26 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2020-01-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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.