CONSULTIV UTILITIES LIMITED
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Cash
£4m
highest in 4 filed years
Net assets
£6.3m
highest in 4 filed years
Employees
134
highest in 4 filed years
Profit before tax
£2.3m
Period ending 2024-10-31
Net assets
4-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
4-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2020-10-31 | 2021-10-31 | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | £10,551,107 | £14,882,494 | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | £1,022,192 | £2,342,644 | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £993,221 | £2,333,354 | — | |
| Net profit | — | — | £780,075 | £1,730,238 | — | |
| Cash | £1,436,264 | £2,890,153 | £2,670,447 | £4,023,324 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £400,409 | £1,162,502 | £7,572,876 | £8,927,819 | — | |
| Net assets | £349,728 | £876,839 | £5,271,328 | £6,266,325 | — | |
| Equity | £349,728 | £876,839 | £5,271,328 | £6,266,325 | — | |
| Average employees | 70 | 70 | 100 | 134 | — | |
| Wages | — | — | £6,002,627 | £7,978,060 | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | £447,094 | £497,548 | — | |
| Highest paid director | £NaN | £NaN | £186,774 | £186,243 | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. Year-on-year comparison hidden: this filing covers about 12 months versus 12 months prior. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2020-10-31 | 2021-10-31 | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | 9.7% | 15.7% | |
| Net margin | — | — | 7.4% | 11.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | 13.5% | 26.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 79.6% | 75.9% | 65.6% | 64.7% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | 1.83x | 1.91x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | 25.44x | 53.88x |
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
- Armstrong Watson Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company has prepared detailed financial forecasts for a period of a least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. The company has also prepared a plausible downside forecast for the same period. In both cases these forecasts show that the company will maintain sufficient cash funds to continue to trade and will not require any additional external funding. Consequently, the directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “A CBILS loan, originally taken out as COVID-19 support, was repaid in full during the year and a finance lease agreement was also settled in full early, leaving the company with a very low level of external debt at the year end.”
- “The company has continued its investment in its internally developed customer facing IT software which is used throughout the business, with a further £0.19m of direct cost capitalised in the year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOSIE, Derek William | Director | 2019-11-01 | Nov 1980 | British |
| HOUSTON, Grant Frederick | Director | 2019-11-01 | Mar 1976 | British |
| SMITH, Paul Anthony | Director | 2017-10-31 | May 1981 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COWLER, Paul | Director | 2017-10-31 | 2020-07-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consultiv Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-11-21 | Active |
| Mr Paul Anthony Smith | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-10-31 | Ceased 2019-11-21 |
| Mr Paul Cowler | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-10-31 | Ceased 2019-11-21 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 32 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-06-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-28 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2022-10-28 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2022-10-28 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-07-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2021-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-12-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2020-08-17 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2020-08-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-04-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
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.