ARDENTON UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-10 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£332K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
-£29M
Equity attributable
Employees
3
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£2M
Period ending 2024-12-31
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-02-27 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £345,833 | £1,335,434 | |
| Operating profit | — | -£28,521,704 | -£3,779,277 | |
| Profit before tax | — | -£27,738,000 | -£2,221,024 | |
| Net profit | — | -£27,738,000 | -£1,230,863 | |
| Cash | — | £477,520 | £331,952 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £60,386,420 | £70,160,860 | |
| Net assets | — | -£27,737,900 | -£28,968,763 | |
| Equity | — | -£27,737,900 | -£28,968,763 | |
| Average employees | — | 3 | 3 | |
| Wages | — | £384,118 | £923,681 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £260,000 | £578,286 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-02-27 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | — | — | -92.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | -47.2% | -5.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 145.7% | 140.4% | |
| Current ratio | — | 1.85x | 1.05x | |
| Interest cover | — | -10.78x | -0.58x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PM+M Solutions for Business LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the continued support of the ultimate parent undertaking and the company's financial position and liquidity, the directors have concluded that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least the next twelve months. As a result, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- ARDENTON UK LIMITED · parent
- Aghoco 1507 Limited 100%
- Ardenton Properties Limited 100%
- PPCA Holdco Limited 97.95%
- BGC Bidco Limited 100%
- Shaftec Topco Limited 100%
- Shaftec Holdco Limited 100%
- Shaftec Automotive Components Holdings Limited 100%
- Shaftec Automotive Components Ltd 100%
- Budget Greeting Cards (Ireland) Limited 100%
- Xquisite Gift Dressings Limited 100%
- Direct Greetings Limited 100%
- PP Control & Automation Limited 97.95%
- Pebbles Holdco Limited 100%
- Ardenton Care Holdings Limited 100%
- Ardenton Care Propco Limited 100%
- Care Holdings Limited 100%
- Pebbles Care Limited 100%
- A Significant Other Limited 100%
- Crossway Services Limited 100%
- No. 57 Ltd. 100%
- Partners in Care Limited 100%
- W. Corbett & Co (Galvanizing) Limited 100%
- Budget Trading Limited 100%
- Budget Greeting Cards Limited 100%
- Radical Services Limited 100%
- BDT Care Solutions Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In March 2025 the group acquired Nuture Childcare Services for £5,050k.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRAWFORD, Peter | Secretary | 2023-02-28 | — | — |
| BRADBURY, Michael James | Director | 2023-02-28 | Oct 1976 | British |
| MAKOFKA, Kyle Stewart | Director | 2023-02-28 | Feb 1973 | Canadian |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 14 of 14 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-24 | AD04 | address | Move registers to registered office company with new address | |
| 2024-04-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-23 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-07-28 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2023-07-28 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2023-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-07-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-05 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2023-02-28 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
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.