PENSANA PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-26 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-12
Watchouts
Cash
£606K
US$ 811,049
-46.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£38M
US$ 50,525,938
-0.8% vs 2024
Employees
55
+7.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£9M
US$ -11,497,912
-97.6% 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
The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis, which contemplates the realisation of assets and discharge of liabilities in the normal course of business. As stated in Note 3 to the financial statements, a material uncertainty related to going concern exists that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s and the Parent Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4,349,290 | £39,918,159 | |
| Operating profit | -£4,349,290 | -£8,595,284 | |
| Profit before tax | -£4,349,290 | -£8,595,284 | |
| Net profit | -£4,349,290 | -£8,595,284 | |
| Cash | £1,132,824 | £606,301 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £38,092,109 | £37,770,754 | |
| Net assets | £38,092,109 | £37,770,754 | |
| Equity | £38,092,109 | £37,770,754 | |
| Average employees | 51 | 55 | |
| Wages | £757,898 | £2,403,466 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £2,065,572 | £1,933,499 |
Figures converted to GBP from US$ at 0.748 per US$ (Frankfurter spot rate) — hover any figure for the original. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
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Turnover
+817.8%
£4,349,290 £39,918,159
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Cash
-46.5%
£1,132,824 £606,301
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Net assets
-0.8%
£38,092,109 £37,770,754
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Employees
+7.8%
51 55
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Operating profit
-97.6%
-£4,349,290 -£8,595,284
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Profit before tax
-97.6%
-£4,349,290 -£8,595,284
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Wages
+217.1%
£757,898 £2,403,466
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 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -100.0% | -21.5% | |
| Net margin | -100.0% | -21.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -11.4% | -22.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 31.9% | 37.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.17x | 0.07x | |
| Interest cover | — | -287.45x |
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
- PENSANA PLC 2021-02-11 → present
- PENSANA RARE EARTHS PLC 2019-09-13 → 2021-02-11
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis, which contemplates the realisation of assets and discharge of liabilities in the normal course of business. As stated in Note 3 to the financial statements, a material uncertainty related to going concern exists that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s and the Parent Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”
Group structure
- PENSANA PLC · parent
- Saltend Magnet Metals Limited 100%
- Pensana Metals Limited 100%
- Carlton Resources Proprietary Limited 100%
- Carlton Miyabi Tanzania Limited 100%
- Carlton Kitongo Tanzania Limited 100%
- Bright Star Tanzania Limited 100%
- Rift Valley Resources (Africa) Proprietary Limited 100%
- Rift Valley Resources Tanzania Limited 100%
- Tamanh Goldfields Australia Operations Proprietary Limited 100%
- Sable Minerals Proprietary Limited 100%
- Sable Min Unipessoal Lda (previously Sable Rare Earths GmbH) 100%
- Ozango Minerais SA 84%
- Coola Mining LDA 90%
- Mtemi O (Tanzania) Limited 100%
- Mtemi U (Tanzania) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Funding approvals of US$268 million and initial deployment of US$25 million by Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA) for Longonjo project.”
- “In May 2025, the company secured a £2 million equity placement to major shareholder M&G Investment Management.”
- “Memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ReElement Technologies to develop a sustainable rare earth supply chain.”
- “Further offtake and co-operation agreements signed with major Japanese partners Hitachi Metals Ltd, and Toyota Tsusho Corporation.”
- “Secured a 4 million technical assistance grant funding from the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).”
- “Achievement of the EcoVadis gold medal, indicating ESG performance among top 5% of companies.”
- “In September 2025, a proposed share consolidation and potential listing for Pensana on the Nasdaq Stock Market was announced.”
- “Appointment of rare earths veteran Karen Brown as chief operating officer, effective 1 October 2025.”
- “In July 2025, Ozango Minerals SA received US$25 million first tranche Longonjo equity funding from FSDEA.”
- “On 10 September 2025, company issued 3,250,478 new ordinary shares for £2 million placement to institutional shareholders.”
- “Subsequent to year-end, the planning permission for Saltend refinery, obtained in 2023, expired.”
- “In October 2025, the company and Wood entered into a full and final settlement agreement in relation to historical invoices.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST JAMES'S CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2020-08-01 | — | — |
| ATHERLEY, Paul Campbell | Director | 2019-09-13 | Mar 1956 | British |
| GEORGE, Timothy Ralph | Director | 2019-09-13 | Apr 1965 | British |
| KAPLAN, Robert John | Director | 2022-03-31 | Aug 1974 | South African |
| SAXBY, Alison Margaret Buchanan | Director | 2022-08-17 | Jan 1965 | British |
| SHARPE, Steven Lawrence | Director | 2021-09-29 | Feb 1962 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAPLAN, Robert | Secretary | 2020-01-06 | 2020-08-01 |
| MISON, Scott | Secretary | 2019-09-13 | 2020-01-06 |
| ZACHARIAS, George John | Secretary | 2022-02-01 | 2023-06-30 |
| BATES, Sandra Naomi | Director | 2020-08-10 | 2021-09-29 |
| BEETON, Jeremy John | Director | 2021-03-02 | 2024-09-19 |
| HAMMOND, David Peter | Director | 2020-02-05 | 2020-11-30 |
| HOHNEN, Mark Ainsworth | Director | 2020-02-05 | 2021-06-30 |
| MACLACHLAN, Neil Thacker | Director | 2020-02-05 | 2021-06-30 |
| NORTHOVER, Lindsay Patricia | Director | 2020-11-02 | 2024-09-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 89 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-09-15 RP04SH01 Legacy PDF
- 2024-12-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-03-05 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-02-08 | RP01SH01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2026-01-28 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-01-13 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-11 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-09-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-15 | RP04SH01 | change-of-name | Legacy | |
| 2025-09-15 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-06-24 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-06-10 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-04-29 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-03-04 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-12-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 13
- Capital events
- 8
- 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.