CHARACTER GIFTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-08 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-25
Watchouts
Cash
£252K
+71.3% vs 2023
Net assets
£239K
+110.6% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£125K
-5.7% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CHARACTER GIFTS LIMITED 2005-01-31 → present
- DOWNPACE LIMITED 1981-03-23 → 2005-01-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £391,205 | £476,128 | |
| Operating profit | £132,326 | £124,772 | |
| Profit before tax | £132,326 | £124,772 | |
| Net profit | £136,480 | £125,683 | |
| Cash | £147,190 | £252,131 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £113,685 | £239,368 | |
| Net assets | £113,685 | £239,368 | |
| Equity | £113,685 | £239,368 | |
| 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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 33.8% | 26.2% | |
| Net margin | 34.9% | 26.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 116.4% | 52.1% | |
| Current ratio | 3.91x | 14.14x |
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 Reduced Disclosure Framework
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Lubbock Fine LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors are satisfied that the company is able to meet its working capital liabilities through the normal cyclical nature of receipts and payments and has therefore adopted the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHAH, Kirankumar Premchand | Secretary | 1997-05-27 | — | British |
| DIVER, Jonathan | Director | 1997-05-27 | Apr 1964 | British |
| KISSANE, Joseph John Patrick | Director | 1997-05-27 | Apr 1952 | British |
| SHAH, Kirankumar Premchand | Director | 1997-05-27 | Jul 1954 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORMAN, Jeremy Philip | Secretary | — | 1997-05-27 |
| BEECHAM, Richard Jacob | Director | — | 1997-05-27 |
| GRIFFITHS, Jeffrey William | Director | 1995-06-07 | 1995-11-06 |
| KING, Richard | Director | 1997-05-27 | 2019-01-25 |
| LONG, Martin | Director | 1995-11-06 | 1997-05-27 |
| NORRIS, Terence John | Director | 1992-10-19 | 1995-05-05 |
| PANICHELLO, John Robert | Director | 1995-06-07 | 1997-05-27 |
| RIPLEY, Beverley | Director | 1992-10-19 | 1995-05-05 |
| SHAH, Kishorilal Devchand Gosar | Director | — | 2002-12-31 |
| SHAH, Praful Meghji | Director | — | 2005-05-20 |
| SHAH, Zaverchand Devchand | Director | — | 2005-05-20 |
| SPILLER, Alan Paul | Director | 1993-03-05 | 2006-06-30 |
| STEINBRECHER, John Mark | Director | 1995-12-04 | 1997-05-27 |
| WISEMAN, Martyn Lewis | Director | 2002-09-23 | 2005-03-07 |
| ZEFF, Alf | Director | — | 1994-05-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Thomas Mark Spain | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2025-04-02 | Ceased 2025-04-02 |
| The Character Group Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 194 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-27 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-26 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-29 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-29 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-26 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-26 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-26 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2022-04-26 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2021-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-03-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- 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 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
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Turnover
+21.7%
£391,205 £476,128
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Cash
+71.3%
£147,190 £252,131
-
Net assets
+110.6%
£113,685 £239,368
-
Employees
—
Not reported
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Operating profit
-5.7%
£132,326 £124,772
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Profit before tax
-5.7%
£132,326 £124,772
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