CITY HOTEL DERRY LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-23 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£9M
Equity attributable
Employees
181
Average over period
Profit before tax
£287K
Period ending 2024-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,653,086 | £6,904,611 | |
| Operating profit | -£44,235 | £352,044 | |
| Profit before tax | -£90,275 | £287,018 | |
| Net profit | -£158,685 | £214,103 | |
| Cash | £1,371,701 | £1,795,702 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,085,554 | £9,984,868 | |
| Net assets | £8,561,619 | £8,775,722 | |
| Equity | £8,561,619 | £8,775,722 | |
| Average employees | 163 | 181 | |
| Wages | £587,216 | £2,722,907 | |
| 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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.7% | 5.1% | |
| Net margin | -9.6% | 3.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.4% | 3.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 28.4% | 28.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.88x | 0.89x | |
| Interest cover | -1.05x | 3.98x |
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. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- HMCI Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that there is sufficient resources available to allow the group to continue to operate for a period of not less than 12 months from the date of the approval of the financial statements and for the foreseeable future. Therefore the directors have adopted the going concern basis in preparing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- CITY HOTEL DERRY LTD · parent
- City of Derry Hotel Limited 80%
Significant events
- “During the year the company entered into capital commitments to rebrand to Doubletree by Hilton with costings of £2,400,000.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DURKAN, Frances Gabrielle | Director | 2023-05-24 | May 1953 | Irish |
| DURKAN, Patrick | Director | 2023-05-24 | Oct 1952 | Irish |
| MCCARTNEY, Gregory Anthony | Director | 2023-05-24 | May 1962 | Irish |
| MCCARTNEY LOGUE, Eleanor | Director | 2024-08-08 | Jan 1988 | Irish |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARTNEY, Johnathan Edward | Director | 2023-05-24 | 2024-08-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Hotels Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2023-05-24 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 13 of 13 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-10-10 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-10-10 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-10-10 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-01 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2023-10-10 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-10-10 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-10-10 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-10-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-10-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-05-24 | 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.