FREE FLOW BIDCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last filed for 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-27 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£14M
+1,401,600% vs 2024
Net assets
-£209M
-26.2% vs 2024
Employees
8
+33.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£43M
-184.2% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,835,000 | £19,980,000 | |
| Operating profit | £4,412,000 | £16,008,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £51,476,000 | -£43,339,000 | |
| Net profit | £51,476,000 | -£43,340,000 | |
| Cash | £1,000 | £14,017,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £333,184,000 | £302,658,000 | |
| Net assets | -£165,250,000 | -£208,590,000 | |
| Equity | -£165,250,000 | -£208,590,000 | |
| Average employees | 6 | 8 | |
| Wages | £1,477,000 | £1,861,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,416,000 | £1,136,000 |
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 2025-05-31 vs 2024-05-31
-
Turnover
+192.3%
£6,835,000 £19,980,000
-
Cash
+1,401,600%
£1,000 £14,017,000
-
Net assets
-26.2%
-£165,250,000 -£208,590,000
-
Employees
+33.3%
6 8
-
Operating profit
+262.8%
£4,412,000 £16,008,000
-
Profit before tax
-184.2%
£51,476,000 -£43,339,000
-
Wages
+26%
£1,477,000 £1,861,000
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 | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 64.6% | 80.1% | |
| Net margin | 753.1% | -216.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.3% | 5.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 122.9% | 127.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.12x | 0.17x | |
| Interest cover | 0.07x | 0.27x |
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
- FREE FLOW BIDCO LIMITED 2019-10-07 → present
- AGHOCO 1878 LIMITED 2019-08-14 → 2019-10-07
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As a result, the directors have a reasonable expectation that there are adequate resources, with the support of the wider group, for the Company to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have therefore adopted the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- FREE FLOW BIDCO LIMITED · parent
- Marston Corporate Limited 100%
- Magenta Pikco Limited 100%
- Magenta Interco Limited 100%
- Magenta Bidco Limited 100%
- Marston Resources Limited 100%
- Marston (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Marston Technologies Limited 100%
- Marston Technology Investments Limited 100%
- Vortex IOT Limited 100%
- Collectica Limited 100%
- Swift Credit Services Limited 100%
- Marston Group Limited 100%
- Scott & Co (Scotland) LLP 100%
- Moreton Smith Receivables Limited 100%
- Rossendales Limited 100%
- Videalert Limited 100%
- Marston Legal Services Limited 100%
- Engage Services (ESL) Limited 100%
- ParkTrade Europe AB*** 79%
- Epass 24 AB** 100%
- ParkiaPay AB** 100%
- Videalert Development Limited 100%
- Grosvenor Services Group Limited 100%
- NSL Limited 100%
- Task Enforcement Limited 100%
- Project Centre Limited 100%
- LogicValley Technologies Pvt Limited 100%
- Field Services Investment Limited 100%
- Smartworks Metering Limited 100%
- Gasworks Limited 100%
- Future Energy Metering Limited 100%
- Grosvenor Legal Services Limited* 100%
- Iotics Limited* 100%
- Rossendales Collect Limited* 100%
- Engage EV Limited* 100%
Significant events
- “On 23 September 2024 the Group disposed of 21% of its shareholding in ParkTrade Europe AB, reducing its holding from 100% to 79%. Proceeds of SEK 20.8m (£1.54m) were received from the sale to the previous owners.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEL MAR, Sam | Director | 2024-07-19 | Apr 1974 | British |
| JOHNSON, Martin | Director | 2023-08-04 | May 1973 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2019-08-14 | 2019-10-07 |
| ANDERSON, James Edward | Director | 2020-03-23 | 2022-05-04 |
| ANDERSON, Richard John | Director | 2020-03-23 | 2020-03-23 |
| CALLAGHAN, Stephen James | Director | 2022-04-14 | 2024-07-19 |
| CORCORAN, Michael John | Director | 2022-04-06 | 2023-09-15 |
| GREEN, Thomas Lemay | Director | 2022-04-14 | 2024-07-19 |
| GREEN, Thomas Lemay | Director | 2019-10-07 | 2020-03-23 |
| HARPER, John David | Director | 2019-10-07 | 2020-03-10 |
| HART, Roger | Director | 2019-08-14 | 2019-10-07 |
| HOSKIN, Mark Ian | Director | 2020-03-23 | 2022-05-04 |
| HUGHES, Gareth | Director | 2020-03-23 | 2022-05-04 |
| MULCAHY, Pamela Anne Gabrielle | Director | 2020-03-23 | 2022-05-04 |
| QUICKSILVER, Danielle Hailey | Director | 2020-03-23 | 2022-05-04 |
| SHEARER, Richard John | Director | 2020-03-23 | 2020-06-05 |
| WATSON, Michael Stuart | Director | 2020-06-05 | 2022-04-06 |
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2019-08-14 | 2019-10-07 |
| INHOCO FORMATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2019-08-14 | 2019-10-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Flow Parentco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-10-10 | Active |
| Inhoco Formations Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-08-14 | Ceased 2019-10-10 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 61 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2026-04-30 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-04-30 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2026-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-03-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-04 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2023-08-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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.