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Cash

£479k

-4.2% lowest in 4 filed years

Net assets

£119k

-64.5% first positive since 2023

Employees

28

+21.7% vs 2024

Profit before tax

-£672k

-373.9% vs 2024

Accounts

5-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31

Metric Trend 2021-06-302021-12-312023-12-312024-12-312025-12-31 Δ vs prior
Turnover ——£7,331,901£8,790,328£3,809,396 -56.7%
Operating profit ——-£1,575,807£58,595£50,237 -14.3%
Profit before tax ——-£1,409,652-£141,827-£672,064 -373.9%
Net profit ——-£1,485,161-£152,169-£688,412 -352.4%
Cash —£1,267,058£1,149,173£499,941£478,855 -4.2%
Total assets less current liabilities £7,396,938£13,633,893-£733,555£1,996,159£3,198,374 +60.2%
Net assets ——-£733,555£335,708£119,138 -64.5%
Equity £7,396,938£13,633,893-£733,555£335,708£119,138 -64.5%
Average employees 13282328 +21.7%
Wages ——£1,255,261£1,400,529£1,907,348 +36.2%
Directors' remuneration ————— —

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 —. About these numbers

Ratios

Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest

Ratio Trend 2021-06-302021-12-312023-12-312024-12-312025-12-31
Operating margin ——-21.5%0.7%1.3%
Net margin ——-20.3%-1.7%-18.1%
Return on capital employed ———2.9%1.6%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) ——128.3%91.8%97.7%
Current ratio ——0.78x1.96x2.60x
Interest cover ———0.29x0.06x

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 2 times since incorporation

  1. DATAFREE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED 2024-02-29 → present
  2. DATAFREE LIMITED 2020-12-06 → 2024-02-29
  3. BINU LIMITED 2020-06-11 → 2020-12-06

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis
FRS 102
Reporting scope
Consolidated group
Auditor
Buzzacott Audit LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“Accordingly, the Directors have concluded that it is appropriate to prepare and present these Group financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

  1. DATAFREE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED · parent
    1. Datafree Technologies Australia Pty Limited 100% · Australia · Development of a software platform facilitating reverse billing of mobile data
    2. Datafree Technologies SA Proprietary Limited 85% · South Africa · Licencing of a software platform facilitating reverse billing of mobile data

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

2 active · 2 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
FRASER, Norman Macaskill Director 2021-02-09 May 1962 British
WAKEFIELD, Edward Cecil Director 2020-06-11 Mar 1973 British
Show 2 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
GREIG, Jonathan Director 2020-06-11 2020-12-13
LENTELL, John Kilgour Director 2020-06-11 2026-04-30

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Lempriere Pringle 2015 Corporate entity Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% 2021-12-28 Active
Lempriere Pringle 2015 Legal person Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors 2020-06-11 Ceased 2021-09-27

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 71 total filings

Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution

  • 2024-10-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
  • 2024-04-07 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
  • 2024-04-07 MA Memorandum articles
  • 2024-02-29 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
  • 2023-09-08 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
  • 2023-04-24 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
Date Type Category Description
2026-09-15 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2026-06-26 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2026-04-30 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2025-12-19 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2025-10-31 AD01 address Change registered office address company with date old address new address PDF
2025-06-23 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-12-18 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2024-10-05 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution
2024-06-21 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2024-05-21 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2024-04-07 SH10 capital Capital variation of rights attached to shares
2024-04-07 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution
2024-04-07 MA incorporation Memorandum articles
2024-02-29 CERTNM change-of-name Certificate change of name company PDF
2024-02-07 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2023-09-08 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution
2023-06-21 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2023-06-08 RP04SH01 capital Second filing capital allotment shares PDF
2023-05-02 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2023-04-24 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
5

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

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