CHESTER A PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-13 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-30
Watchouts
Cash
£38M
-13.4% vs 2024
Net assets
-£7M
-195.1% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£13M
+17.9% 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
These conditions, along with the other matters explained in note 2 to the financial statements, indicate the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include the adjustments that would result if the company were unable to continue as a going concern.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£16,437,266 | -£13,496,592 | |
| Net profit | -£16,438,226 | -£13,497,592 | |
| Cash | £43,321,775 | £37,514,317 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £844,821,949 | £685,786,947 | |
| Net assets | £6,917,965 | -£6,579,627 | |
| Equity | £6,917,965 | -£6,579,627 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £0 | £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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
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Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
-13.4%
£43,321,775 £37,514,317
-
Net assets
-195.1%
£6,917,965 -£6,579,627
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Profit before tax
+17.9%
-£16,437,266 -£13,496,592
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current ratio | 1.02x | 1.15x |
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
- CHESTER A PLC 2019-03-08 → present
- CHESTER SECURED PLC 2019-01-31 → 2019-03-08
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“These conditions, along with the other matters explained in note 2 to the financial statements, indicate the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include the adjustments that would result if the company were unable to continue as a going concern.”
Significant events
- “Optional Redemption date in June 2024 whereby the Class Y Certificate holder (the "Portfolio Option Holder") could exercise their right to wind down the transaction. The Portfolio Option Holder considered the various options available to them and a decision was made not to exercise the call option at the Optional Redemption date.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSC CORPORATE SERVICES (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2019-01-31 | — | — |
| MCGRATH, Catherine Mary Elizabeth | Director | 2023-01-13 | Dec 1989 | British |
| CSC DIRECTORS (NO.1) LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2019-01-31 | — | — |
| CSC DIRECTORS (NO.2) LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2023-12-08 | — | — |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| NURSIAH, Vinoy Rajanah | Director | 2019-02-25 | 2023-01-13 |
| STERNBERG, Aline | Director | 2019-01-31 | 2023-12-08 |
| CSC DIRECTORS (NO.2) LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2019-01-31 | 2019-02-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chester A Holding Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-01-31 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 35 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-08 | AP02 | officers | Appoint corporate director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-07 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-12-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-12-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-11 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-10-11 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-02-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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.