SPONGE GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-22 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-04-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+138.7% vs 2024
Net assets
-£534K
-110.8% vs 2024
Employees
154
-9.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£5M
+5.4% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,410,805 | £12,565,336 | |
| Operating profit | -£4,178,279 | -£4,029,996 | |
| Profit before tax | -£5,808,980 | -£5,497,473 | |
| Net profit | -£5,753,293 | -£5,497,473 | |
| Cash | £599,803 | £1,431,686 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £16,192,663 | £12,950,812 | |
| Net assets | £4,963,084 | -£534,051 | |
| Equity | £4,963,084 | -£534,051 | |
| Average employees | 171 | 154 | |
| Wages | £8,198,867 | £6,850,122 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £249,805 | £237,982 |
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 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
-18.5%
£15,410,805 £12,565,336
-
Cash
+138.7%
£599,803 £1,431,686
-
Net assets
-110.8%
£4,963,084 -£534,051
-
Employees
-9.9%
171 154
-
Operating profit
+3.5%
-£4,178,279 -£4,029,996
-
Profit before tax
+5.4%
-£5,808,980 -£5,497,473
-
Wages
-16.5%
£8,198,867 £6,850,122
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -27.1% | -32.1% | |
| Net margin | -37.3% | -43.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -25.8% | -31.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.56x | 0.55x | |
| Interest cover | -2.56x | -2.74x |
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
- SPONGE GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED 2020-12-10 → present
- BOOST (TOPCO) LIMITED 2019-04-09 → 2020-12-10
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group's or the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- SPONGE GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Sponge Group Limited 100%
- Sponge UK Limited 100%
- The Intentional Learning Company Limited 100%
- Skill-Pill Holdings Limited 100%
- Skill-Pill M-Learning Limited 100%
- Elmore Topco Limited 100%
- Sponge Germany GmbH 100%
- Sponge Belgium NV 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 · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLAN, William Macdonald | Director | 2019-04-09 | Aug 1960 | British |
| BOORMAN, Nicholas | Director | 2025-07-18 | Jun 1975 | British |
| BROWN, Greig Ronald | Director | 2019-04-09 | Mar 1971 | British |
| POULTER, Adam Willis George | Director | 2021-05-10 | Apr 1964 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYONS, Timothy James | Director | 2021-09-02 | 2024-06-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ac Training Holdco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-08-14 | Active |
| Aliter Capital General Partner Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-04-09 | Ceased 2020-08-14 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 71 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-07-05 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-07-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-06-18 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-02 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-11-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-26 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-08-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-12 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-07-05 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-07-05 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-05 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-06-18 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2024-06-18 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2024-06-18 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2024-06-18 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-06-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-02-06 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 5
- 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.