FRANKLIN TOPCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-18 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-04
Watchouts
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£86M
+3.1% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Outstanding charges registered
One or more mortgages or charges remain undischarged on the Companies House register.
Turnover
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,433,000 | £16,066,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | — | — | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £83,018,000 | £85,590,000 | |
| Net assets | — | — | |
| Equity | — | — | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| 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. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+4.1%
£15,433,000 £16,066,000
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Cash
—
Not reported
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Net assets
—
Not reported
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Employees
—
Not reported
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
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation, consistent with their forecasting procedures and the repayments due on the various loans within the group, that the group have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. At year end the group had more than £13m of cash and treasury deposits, which is more than adequate for the FY25 development plans. Most of the debt is shareholder debt and is not repayable until September 2031. The directors have also considered the uncertainly of the current ongoing macroeconomic environment e.g. rising costs and are satisfied that the robust nature of the business model including long term contracts minimises any risk. The group trades solely in the UK with some supply chain items being sourced from the EU, therefore the recent US trade tariffs increases are expected to have limited effects.”
Group structure
- FRANKLIN TOPCO LIMITED · parent
- Datum Bidco Limited 100%
- Datum Topco Limited 100%
- Amphora Topco Limited 100%
- Datum Datacentres Limited 100%
- Loxworth Investments Limited 100%
- Teledata UK Limited 100%
- Teledata Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The group is currently building a second datacentre in Manchester and is also actively looking for a third location.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOWARD, Paul Derek, Dr | Secretary | 2022-04-05 | — | — |
| BERTINI, Edoardo Maria | Director | 2024-10-15 | Oct 1990 | Italian |
| CONTAT DESFONTAINES, Thibault | Director | 2022-12-01 | Jan 1981 | British |
| LIDDELL, Stephen Charles | Director | 2022-04-05 | Mar 1961 | British |
| MORRIS, Paul | Director | 2022-04-05 | Mar 1957 | British |
| PHILLIPS, Dominic | Director | 2022-04-05 | Apr 1969 | British |
| RICHARDS, Mark Jonathan | Director | 2022-04-05 | Jan 1972 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSEH, Arpad | Director | 2021-08-05 | 2022-04-05 |
| LIU, Kailong Alexander | Director | 2021-08-05 | 2022-12-01 |
| MORRIS, Andrew Montague | Director | 2022-12-01 | 2024-10-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gvc Holding Europe Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2022-09-08 | Active |
| Archmore Infrastructure Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2021-08-05 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 35 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-09-27 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-09-27 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-01-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-11-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-11 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2023-11-07 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2023-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-27 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-09-27 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-09-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-09-16 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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.