RUA LIFE SCIENCES PLC
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-29 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£7M
Equity attributable
Employees
59
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£236K
Period ending 2025-09-30
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £2,191,000 | £6,689,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£1,937,000 | -£257,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£2,020,000 | -£236,000 | |
| Net profit | -£1,440,000 | -£233,000 | |
| Cash | £3,931,000 | £3,250,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,615,000 | £7,955,000 | |
| Net assets | £7,182,000 | £7,185,000 | |
| Equity | £7,182,000 | £7,185,000 | |
| Average employees | 40 | 59 | |
| Wages | £2,099,000 | £3,917,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £942,000 | £1,081,000 |
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 2025-09-30 vs 2024-03-31
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -88.4% | -3.8% | |
| Net margin | -65.7% | -3.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -25.4% | -3.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.1% | 21.2% | |
| Current ratio | 9.01x | 4.64x | |
| Interest cover | -35.22x | -3.34x |
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.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- RUA LIFE SCIENCES PLC 2020-06-16 → present
- AORTECH INTERNATIONAL PLC 1997-01-03 → 2020-06-16
- DALGLEN (NO. 646) LIMITED 1996-11-21 → 1997-01-03
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors estimate that the cash held by the Group together with known receivables will be sufficient to support the planned level of activities to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future (being a period of at least 12 months from the date of this report), and for this reason the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- RUA LIFE SCIENCES PLC · parent
- RUA Biomaterials Limited 100%
- RUA Structural Heart Limited 100%
- RUA Vascular Limited 100%
- RUA Medical Devices Limited 100%
- Aortech International Limited 100%
- Analytic Biosurgical Solutions SAS 100%
- Abiss Poland Sp. z o.o 60%
Significant events
- “The Abiss acquisition added customers, capability and momentum and, on completion, generated a non-recurring bargain-purchase gain of £0.9m.”
- “On 6th September 2024, the Group acquired 100% of the share capital of Abiss France SAS, a France-based medical device group, for cash consideration of £68k.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 32 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, Lachlan Arthur | Secretary | 2023-11-01 | — | — |
| ARDILL, Ian Leslie | Director | 2021-01-18 | Apr 1967 | Northern Irish |
| BERG, Geoffrey Alan | Director | 2018-06-08 | May 1956 | British |
| BROWN, William Donald | Director | 2011-10-21 | Mar 1963 | British |
| ELY, John Louis | Director | 2018-06-08 | Nov 1950 | American |
| MCKENNA, John | Director | 2016-10-31 | Aug 1953 | British |
| SMITH, Lachlan Arthur | Director | 2022-03-31 | Dec 1980 | Scottish |
Show 32 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMERON, Ian George | Secretary | 1998-10-19 | 2004-12-01 |
| FULL, Kathryn Mary | Secretary | 2019-01-02 | 2023-11-01 |
| LAWRIE, Stuart | Secretary | 1997-01-21 | 1998-08-26 |
| MCDAID, Edward | Secretary | 1998-08-26 | 1998-10-19 |
| PARSONS, John Christopher David | Secretary | 2004-12-01 | 2019-01-02 |
| DALGLEN SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-11-21 | 1997-01-21 |
| ANTHONY, Iain Crawford | Director | 2022-03-31 | 2023-08-30 |
| BROOKS, Jonathan | Director | 2001-02-12 | 2004-03-01 |
| CAMERON, Ian George | Director | 1999-03-08 | 2004-12-20 |
| DUIJST, Peter | Director | 1997-01-21 | 2002-07-01 |
| GIBSON, Peter Jeremy | Director | 2004-03-01 | 2005-05-12 |
| GRAY, Alistair William | Director | 1997-05-16 | 2003-08-11 |
| LOWINGER, Bruno | Director | 1997-01-21 | 2002-07-01 |
| MADDEN, Francis John Philip | Director | 1997-01-21 | 2002-11-20 |
| MAGUIRE, Francis Patrick | Director | 2003-07-01 | 2013-11-30 |
| MCDAID, Edward | Director | 2005-11-14 | 2016-10-31 |
| MCDAID, Edward | Director | 1997-01-21 | 2002-11-20 |
| MCDAID, Edward | Director | 1997-01-21 | 1998-10-19 |
| MCKENNA, John | Director | 1997-01-21 | 2002-07-01 |
| MITCHELL, Roy Walter | Director | 2013-05-23 | 2015-05-31 |
| PITHER, Jon Peter | Director | 2004-03-01 | 2012-12-31 |
| RANIERI, John Paul, Dr | Director | 2002-01-22 | 2002-07-01 |
| RICHMOND, David Muir | Director | 2018-06-08 | 2021-08-31 |
| ROBERTSON, Archibald Bernard | Director | 1997-01-21 | 1997-04-30 |
| ROLLASON, Stuart Bernard, Doctor | Director | 2005-05-13 | 2011-10-21 |
| ROSTRON, Laurence | Director | 2002-11-20 | 2005-05-12 |
| STRACHAN, William Craig | Director | 2002-07-01 | 2004-03-01 |
| STRETTON, Caroline, Dr | Director | 2021-01-18 | 2024-01-26 |
| WILLIAMS, David Franklyn, Professor | Director | 1997-05-01 | 2002-07-01 |
| WRIGHT, James Gordon | Director | 2005-11-14 | 2020-12-10 |
| WRIGHT, James Gordon | Director | 1997-01-21 | 2002-03-04 |
| DALGLEN DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-11-21 | 1997-01-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 289 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-03-23 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-08-29 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-12-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-08-23 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-23 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-02-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-30 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-11-05 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2024-10-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-29 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-02-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-19 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-12-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-11-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-11-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-23 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-08-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-10-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
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.