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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-05-31 (this month)

Last made up 2025-05-17

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£6M

+18.3% vs 2023

Net assets

£6M

+8.3% vs 2023

Employees

60

+13.2% vs 2023

Profit before tax

-£7M

-7.6% vs 2023

Accounts

5-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2021-01-052022-01-312022-12-312023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £869,874£2,217,282
Operating profit -£6,981,431-£7,504,454
Profit before tax -£6,933,524-£7,463,931
Net profit -£6,468,304-£6,983,118
Cash £5,435,498£6,428,745
Total assets less current liabilities £5,572,293£6,035,089
Net assets £5,572,293£6,035,089
Equity £5,572,293£6,035,089
Average employees 5360
Wages £4,442,845£5,022,955
Directors' remuneration £170,000£201,338

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

FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31

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 2021-01-052022-01-312022-12-312023-12-312024-12-31
Return on capital employed -125.3%-124.3%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 12.4%22.5%
Current ratio 7.96x4.38x
Interest cover -90667.94x-4584.27x

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. Margin ratios are hidden where reported turnover is too small relative to profit to yield a meaningful figure — typical of holding companies whose income is mostly subsidiary dividends rather than trading revenue. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis
FRS 102
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
Azets
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The directors have prepared detailed, sensitised financial projections modelling both the core business of the company and its forecast growth. The company's core business is profitable and cash generating. The directors have, however, elected to take an accelerated growth strategy, supported by its shareholders. In so doing, it is likely that the company will seek additional equity funding in the next 12 months. The directors are confident that this will be achieved but having also modelled a less aggressive growth model also have a reasonable expectation that the company will have adequate resources to meet its debts as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, they believe it is appropriate to continue to adopt the going concern basis in the preparation of these financial statements.”

Significant events

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

People

3 active · 0 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
CHALMERS, George Thomas Director 2022-06-10 Aug 1988 British
HAMEED, Saif Director 2021-01-06 Jun 1987 British
SYKES, Toby Director 2022-05-30 May 1980 British

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Saif Hameed Individual Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors 2021-01-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 61 total filings

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

  • 2024-11-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
  • 2024-11-17 MA Memorandum articles
Date Type Category Description
2026-01-28 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2026-01-21 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2025-10-07 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2025-09-30 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2025-07-09 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2025-05-24 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2025-05-20 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2025-03-25 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2024-11-17 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution
2024-11-17 MA incorporation Memorandum articles
2024-11-08 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2024-11-05 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2024-09-27 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type total exemption full PDF
2024-07-27 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2024-05-31 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2024-05-18 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2024-04-06 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2024-02-14 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2024-01-23 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF
2023-12-12 SH01 capital Capital allotment shares PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
7

last 12 months

Capital events
10

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

last 12 months

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

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