SILVERFISH GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-19 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-05
Watchouts
Cash
£58K
+2,085.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£753K
-88.5% vs 2023
Employees
5
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£6M
-709.6% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The principal risk to the Group's going concern position relates to liquidity, reflecting the impact of recent sector-wide challenges on working capital and profitability... At the time of signing, the group is in breach of certain financial covenants... these balances... are technically repayable on demand... The directors acknowledge these facts currently represent a material uncertainty that, if they were not addressed, would have the potential to cast doubt on the entity's ability to continue as a going concern at the date of approval.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-10-31 | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £700,000 | £700,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | £71,352 | £301,189 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £953,538 | -£5,813,048 | |
| Net profit | — | £643,783 | -£5,813,048 | |
| Cash | — | £2,651 | £57,944 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £17,683,210 | £753,022 | |
| Net assets | — | £6,566,070 | £753,022 | |
| Equity | -£11,206,215 | £6,566,070 | £753,022 | |
| Average employees | — | 5 | 5 | |
| Wages | — | £244,230 | £257,756 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £63,065 | £129,109 |
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 2024-10-31 vs 2023-10-31
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Turnover
0%
£700,000 £700,000
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Cash
+2,085.7%
£2,651 £57,944
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Net assets
-88.5%
£6,566,070 £753,022
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Employees
0%
5 5
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Operating profit
+322.1%
£71,352 £301,189
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Profit before tax
-709.6%
£953,538 -£5,813,048
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Wages
+5.5%
£244,230 £257,756
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 | 2022-10-31 | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 10.2% | 43.0% | |
| Net margin | — | 92.0% | — | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 0.4% | 40.0% | |
| Current ratio | — | 52.23x | 0.84x | |
| Interest cover | — | 0.05x | 0.30x |
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
- SILVERFISH GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED 2022-01-06 → present
- ENSCO 1437 LIMITED 2021-10-06 → 2022-01-06
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PKF Francis Clark
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The principal risk to the Group's going concern position relates to liquidity, reflecting the impact of recent sector-wide challenges on working capital and profitability... At the time of signing, the group is in breach of certain financial covenants... these balances... are technically repayable on demand... The directors acknowledge these facts currently represent a material uncertainty that, if they were not addressed, would have the potential to cast doubt on the entity's ability to continue as a going concern at the date of approval.”
Group structure
- SILVERFISH GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Silverfish UK (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Silverfish UK Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The sale and leaseback of the Saltash property in October 2025, which provided an additional £1.5 million of liquidity.”
- “Prior year figures included a £2.2m bank loan write-down, presented as an exceptional item, and a £17m shareholder loan note write-down, presented as a capital contribution within equity.”
- “On 30 April 2024 the group breached a financial covenants on its bank borrowings, the senior debt facility, causing a cross-default on the other borrowings. As a result these liabilities are presented as current at year end.”
- “On 30 September 2024 the group breached a financial covenants on its bank borrowings, the senior debt facility, causing a cross-default on the other borrowings. As a result these liabilities are presented as current at year end.”
- “The senior lender ThinCats has remained supportive of the business and we expect to reset covenants in the near future and it has confirmed its intention to waive historical breaches as part of the reset.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DALE, Bernard John | Director | 2023-08-23 | May 1964 | British |
| GARDINER, Edward Grenville | Director | 2023-02-17 | Jan 1978 | British |
| MABBOTT, Darren Graham | Director | 2021-12-23 | Sep 1971 | British |
| METCALFE, Alexander Peter | Director | 2023-02-17 | Oct 1980 | British |
| OSBORNE, Matthew James Henry | Director | 2021-12-23 | Aug 1969 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COUPLAND, Michael William | Director | 2021-10-06 | 2023-08-23 |
| OTWAY, Miles Daniel | Director | 2021-10-06 | 2021-12-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silverfish Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-10-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 25 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-01-10 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-01-10 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-01-06 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-08-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-02-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-11-04 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-10-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-01-10 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-01-10 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-01-06 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2022-01-05 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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.