BLAZE SIGNS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-29 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-15
Watchouts
Cash
£14K
-63.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
-14.7% vs 2023
Employees
180
-1.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£1M
-181% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Audit opinion: Qualified
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BLAZE SIGNS LIMITED 2016-01-04 → present
- BLAZE NEON LIMITED 1980-10-28 → 2016-01-04
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 | £19,270,837 | £16,897,843 | |
| Operating profit | £1,707,393 | -£794,621 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,472,819 | -£1,192,679 | |
| Net profit | £1,567,058 | -£1,192,679 | |
| Cash | £36,757 | £13,536 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,459,538 | £7,135,490 | |
| Net assets | £8,089,601 | £6,896,922 | |
| Equity | £8,089,601 | £6,896,922 | |
| Average employees | 183 | 180 | |
| Wages | £6,389,895 | £6,173,489 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.9% | -4.7% | |
| Net margin | 8.1% | -7.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 20.2% | -11.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.74x | 1.54x | |
| Interest cover | 7.28x | -2.00x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- UHY Hacker Young
- Audit opinion
- Qualified
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have sound expectations based on budgets and cash flow forecasts and are confident that the Company has more than adequate resources to grow. As set out in note 24, additional working capital funding of £500,000 was secured from Arbuthnot Latham & Co Limited on 20th February 2026. Forecasts show there is sufficient headroom on the existing invoice discounting facilities, which are fully expected to be available for the period to 31 March 2027, in all scenarios tested. Thus, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Additional working capital funding of £500,000 was secured from Arbuthnot Latham & Co Limited on 20th February 2026.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABBOTT, Christopher Richard | Director | — | May 1963 | British |
| BATTY, Adam David | Director | 2023-09-13 | Mar 1972 | British |
| DUCKER, Andrew James | Director | 2021-12-23 | Feb 1963 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORASTON, Joanna Pamela | Secretary | 2002-06-21 | 2020-09-02 |
| NAUMANN, Terence Charles | Secretary | — | 2002-06-21 |
| ALLEN, Frederick Roy | Director | — | 2000-07-28 |
| BORASTON, Joanna Pamela | Director | 2002-06-21 | 2020-09-02 |
| JACKSON, Suzanne | Director | 2001-04-01 | 2005-10-31 |
| KNIGHT, Clive Neil | Director | — | 2022-02-28 |
| LADD, David Ian | Director | 2021-09-23 | 2022-09-30 |
| MOIR, James Marcus Henry | Director | 2020-09-02 | 2022-02-28 |
| MULLIGAN, Wesley Joseph | Director | 2021-09-23 | 2025-01-31 |
| NAUMANN, Terence Charles | Director | — | 2002-12-31 |
| RICE, Michael James | Director | 2020-09-02 | 2022-02-28 |
| SUTCLIFFE, Rebecca Jade | Director | 2022-02-28 | 2023-09-13 |
| WALKER, Richard Alan | Director | 2020-09-02 | 2021-05-31 |
| WILLIAMS, Lyndon Peter | Director | — | 2002-04-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaze Signs Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 169 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-03-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-03-17 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-03-17 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-03-17 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-03-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-16 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2023-01-16 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2023-01-16 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2022-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- 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
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Turnover
-12.3%
£19,270,837 £16,897,843
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Cash
-63.2%
£36,757 £13,536
-
Net assets
-14.7%
£8,089,601 £6,896,922
-
Employees
-1.6%
183 180
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Operating profit
-146.5%
£1,707,393 -£794,621
-
Profit before tax
-181%
£1,472,819 -£1,192,679
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Wages
-3.4%
£6,389,895 £6,173,489
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