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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-15 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£23M
-8.1% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£2M
+352.4% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | -£1,583,000 | £868,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£691,000 | £1,744,000 | |
| Net profit | -£529,000 | £1,308,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,651,000 | £22,659,000 | |
| Net assets | £24,651,000 | £22,659,000 | |
| Equity | £24,651,000 | £22,659,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | -6.4% | 3.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 0.3% | 1.5% | |
| Current ratio | 81.56x | 16.58x |
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. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors are satisfied that the Company has adequate resources to continue to meet its financial obligations for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements, and accordingly, it is appropriate to continue to use the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The principal activity of the Company, until 1 June 2005, was the managing and selling of Zurich Advice Network franchisees' practices. Since 1 June 2005, the Company has not purchased additional practices. The directors do not expect any further practices to be purchased.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZURICH CORPORATE SECRETARY (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2014-03-17 | — | — |
| HORNE, Christopher | Director | 2023-04-14 | Jan 1977 | British |
| JENKINS, Gareth David | Director | 2013-07-25 | Jan 1976 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLUNDELL, Ann Claire | Secretary | 2013-07-25 | 2014-03-17 |
| HALE, Isla Rebecca | Secretary | 2004-09-06 | 2006-06-30 |
| HOWE, Peter Charles | Secretary | — | 2004-09-06 |
| KNOTT, Amanda Louise | Secretary | 2007-04-02 | 2013-07-25 |
| LOWE, Nigel | Secretary | 2006-06-30 | 2007-04-02 |
| MEACHAM, Jayne Michelle | Secretary | 2007-04-02 | 2008-05-02 |
| RITCHIE, Ian | Secretary | 2013-07-25 | 2014-03-17 |
| ROGERS, Helen Frances Leigh | Secretary | 2008-07-14 | 2011-12-02 |
| ROSS, Corina Katherine | Secretary | 2011-03-14 | 2013-07-25 |
| BALDWIN, Keith Reginald | Director | — | 2003-08-31 |
| BULLIMORE, James Edward | Director | 2000-03-10 | 2002-05-15 |
| COOPER, Mark John | Director | 1998-12-02 | 2005-05-31 |
| DAVIES, Mark Derek | Director | 1998-12-02 | 2003-09-11 |
| ELLEN, Peter | Director | 1997-05-13 | 1998-12-02 |
| EVANS, Neil James | Director | 2006-08-17 | 2016-03-31 |
| FERNS, Michael Andrew | Director | 2003-08-22 | 2006-08-17 |
| GILLIES, Alasdair Christopher | Director | 1993-02-03 | 1995-09-13 |
| GRANT, Timothy James | Director | 2017-05-30 | 2023-08-22 |
| HARRIS, Michael | Director | 1999-01-20 | 2000-03-10 |
| HICKS, Shaun Tony | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2023-02-27 |
| HIGGINSON, George | Director | 2001-02-02 | 2005-07-15 |
| HODKINSON, Phil Andrew | Director | 1995-09-13 | 2000-11-22 |
| HODKINSON, Phil Andrew | Director | — | 1993-02-03 |
| HUMPHRIES, Andrew Ralph | Director | 1998-12-02 | 2000-10-11 |
| JEWITT, John Peter | Director | 1995-09-13 | 1997-05-13 |
| KENMIR, Anthony Paul | Director | 2009-10-23 | 2013-07-25 |
| POWELL, Christopher Michael Eric | Director | 2006-08-17 | 2008-06-25 |
| READ, Gail Anne | Director | 1992-11-02 | 1995-09-13 |
| SEVIOUR, David Alan | Director | 1998-12-02 | 2003-08-29 |
| SMITH, Philip | Director | — | 1996-09-20 |
| STEER, Peter John | Director | 1995-09-13 | 1998-12-02 |
| SYKES, James Richard | Director | 2006-08-17 | 2009-10-23 |
| VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, Jonathan | Director | 2016-04-01 | 2017-04-28 |
| YOUNG, Alan Robert | Director | — | 1995-07-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich Assurance Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| Zurich Assurance Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 209 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-10 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-08-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-04-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-10-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-10-24 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2022-08-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-15 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-11-12 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2021-11-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2021-09-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
-8.1%
£24,651,000 £22,659,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+154.8%
-£1,583,000 £868,000
-
Profit before tax
+352.4%
-£691,000 £1,744,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers