UNIVERSALLY SPEAKING BIDCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-10 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-27
Watchouts
Cash
£7K
+771% vs 2024
Net assets
-£59K
+98% vs 2024
Employees
6
-14.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3M
+320.5% 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
However, a detailed report in respect of Going Concern, including details around certain material uncertainties which may cast significant doubt over the company's ability to continue as a going concern, is included within the accounting policies, note 1.2 of the financial statements.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,126,500 | £1,013,999 | |
| Operating profit | -£111,735 | £14,521 | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,278,223 | £2,818,380 | |
| Net profit | -£1,278,223 | £2,818,380 | |
| Cash | £804 | £7,003 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,686,152 | -£58,517 | |
| Net assets | -£2,876,897 | -£58,517 | |
| Equity | -£2,876,897 | -£58,517 | |
| Average employees | 7 | 6 | |
| Wages | £831,760 | £752,493 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £477,500 | £430,113 |
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
-10%
£1,126,500 £1,013,999
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Cash
+771%
£804 £7,003
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Net assets
+98%
-£2,876,897 -£58,517
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Employees
-14.3%
7 6
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Operating profit
+113%
-£111,735 £14,521
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Profit before tax
+320.5%
-£1,278,223 £2,818,380
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Wages
-9.5%
£831,760 £752,493
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -9.9% | 1.4% | |
| Net margin | -113.5% | — | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.0% | -24.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.18x | 0.11x | |
| Interest cover | -0.10x | 0.01x |
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. 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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- UNIVERSALLY SPEAKING BIDCO LIMITED 2021-03-10 → present
- AGHOCO 2019 LIMITED 2021-01-28 → 2021-03-10
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- MHA
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“However, a detailed report in respect of Going Concern, including details around certain material uncertainties which may cast significant doubt over the company's ability to continue as a going concern, is included within the accounting policies, note 1.2 of the financial statements.”
Group structure
- UNIVERSALLY SPEAKING BIDCO LIMITED · parent
- Universally Speaking Limited 100%
- Universally Speaking Inc
- Universally Speaking (España) Sl
Significant events
- “On 26 February 2026, the Company was acquired by USQ Holdings Limited as part of a restructure for total consideration of £2.50. The directors of USQ Holdings Limited were the executive directors of the former Universally Speaking Group, Mr Andrew Brown and Mr Rhys William Davies.”
- “As part of the transaction, all existing shareholder and investor loan notes within the group were converted into 32,628,430 Deferred A Shares of £0.0001 each and this equity was subsequently sold to USQ Holdings Limited.”
- “On the same date, the Group issued new loan notes totaling £1,171,800, comprising £1,071,800 bearing interest at 20% and £100,000 bearing interest at 5%, to support its shortterm trading requirements. Both loan notes have a repayment date of February 2031. The Group's existing banking facilities were also rolled over into the new group structure.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, Andrew | Director | 2022-06-29 | Feb 1965 | British |
| DAVIES, Rhys William | Director | 2024-06-27 | Oct 1985 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2021-01-28 | 2021-02-24 |
| HART, Roger | Director | 2021-01-28 | 2021-02-24 |
| MACAULAY, Damien James | Director | 2022-01-26 | 2024-05-07 |
| PEGGS, Victoria Louise | Director | 2021-03-02 | 2024-09-25 |
| SARGEANT, Mark Peter | Director | 2021-02-24 | 2022-06-29 |
| XENOPHONTOS, Joanna | Director | 2021-03-02 | 2022-01-26 |
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2021-01-28 | 2021-02-24 |
| INHOCO FORMATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2021-01-28 | 2021-02-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universally Speaking Midco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-02-26 | Active |
| Inhoco Formations Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-01-28 | Ceased 2021-02-26 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 40 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-03-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-02-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-19 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2025-02-19 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-02-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-06 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2022-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-03-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-03-08 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-02-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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.