UPHOLD EUROPE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-15 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-01
Watchouts
Cash
£32M
+149.1% highest in 4 filed years
Net assets
£2M
+183.4% highest in 4 filed years
Employees
81
+24.6% highest in 4 filed years
Profit before tax
£3M
+162.4% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
4-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
4-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2019-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | £13,693,653 | £28,989,888 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | -£4,859,088 | £2,910,954 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | -£4,850,730 | £3,025,762 | |
| Net profit | — | — | -£4,850,730 | £3,019,470 | |
| Cash | £5,930,747 | £7,440,680 | £12,952,521 | £32,259,024 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £42,218 | £842,276 | -£1,056,616 | £2,204,874 | |
| Net assets | — | — | -£1,812,790 | £1,511,896 | |
| Equity | £42,218 | £842,276 | -£1,812,790 | £1,511,896 | |
| Average employees | 5 | 8 | 65 | 81 | |
| Wages | — | — | £6,613,017 | £8,873,274 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | £694,177 | £981,594 |
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
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Turnover
+111.7%
£13,693,653 £28,989,888
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Cash
+149.1%
£12,952,521 £32,259,024
highest in 4 filed years
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Net assets
+183.4%
-£1,812,790 £1,511,896
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Employees
+24.6%
65 81
highest in 4 filed years
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Operating profit
+159.9%
-£4,859,088 £2,910,954
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Profit before tax
+162.4%
-£4,850,730 £3,025,762
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Wages
+34.2%
£6,613,017 £8,873,274
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 | 2019-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | -35.5% | 10.0% | |
| Net margin | — | — | -35.4% | 10.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | 459.9% | 132.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | 101.2% | 99.6% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | 0.97x | 1.00x |
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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- UPHOLD EUROPE LIMITED 2015-10-08 → present
- BR SERVICES EUROPE LIMITED 2014-10-27 → 2015-10-08
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have examined the possible effects of events on their business by undertaking forecasts and scenarios planning. The company is profit generating and will continue to benefit and rely on financial support as applicable its parent company, which has confirmed that it will provide the company with sufficient resources to enable it to meet its debts as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. The directors, therefore have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- UPHOLD EUROPE LIMITED · parent
- Optimus Cards (U.K.) Limited 100%
- Optimus Cards UAB 100%
- Uphold Lithuania UAB 100%
- Uphold Labs Limited 100%
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the group since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSP CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2023-05-01 | — | — |
| LUDWICK, Kevin Vere | Director | 2021-11-01 | Jan 1964 | British |
| MCLOUGHLIN, Simon | Director | 2018-02-01 | Dec 1966 | British |
| MORRISON, Alistair Dougal | Director | 2019-04-01 | Mar 1956 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY-SMITH, Diane | Secretary | 2018-02-02 | 2019-01-01 |
| LONDON REGISTRARS LTD | Corporate Secretary | 2021-05-01 | 2023-05-01 |
| EDWARDS, Kim Jacqueline | Director | 2018-12-01 | 2019-03-29 |
| GRAY-SMITH, Diane Elizabeth | Director | 2016-01-07 | 2018-02-02 |
| MARTIN, Patrick Victor Josef | Director | 2024-01-25 | 2025-01-31 |
| MORRISON, Alistair | Director | 2018-07-30 | 2018-12-13 |
| ROBERTSON, Lindsay | Director | 2021-03-12 | 2024-01-31 |
| WATSON, Anthony George | Director | 2016-01-07 | 2017-12-31 |
| WEIR, Carl Andrew Robert | Director | 2014-10-27 | 2016-01-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uphold Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2026-03-03 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 61 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-12 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2026-03-12 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-03-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-05-18 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-05-18 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-18 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-02-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-02-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-12-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- 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.