CONSOLIDATED VENTURE FINANCE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-16 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£353
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
-£824K
-11.4% vs 2024
Employees
1
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£84K
Period ending 2025-01-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £130 | |
| Operating profit | — | -£84,157 | |
| Profit before tax | — | -£84,157 | |
| Net profit | — | -£84,157 | |
| Cash | — | £353 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£740,001 | -£824,158 | |
| Net assets | -£740,001 | -£824,158 | |
| Equity | -£740,001 | -£824,158 | |
| Average employees | 1 | 1 | |
| 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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | -64736.2% | |
| Net margin | — | -64736.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 10.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 233572.5% | |
| Current ratio | — | 0.00x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, notwithstanding net liabilities of £824,158 which the Director believes to be appropriate for the following reasons. The Company is dependent for its working capital on funds provided to it by its parent, North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust Plc, which will continue to make available such funds.”
Significant events
- “During the year ended 31 January 2021, the Company's assets were transferred to its parent company and the Company became dormant. During the year ended 31 January 2025, the Company purchased investments from the parent company. At that point in time the Company resumed trading.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HARBER, Ben | Secretary | 2025-05-15 | — | — |
| MILLS, Christopher Harwood Bernard | Director | — | Nov 1952 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUNTRIP, Bonita | Secretary | 2012-05-01 | 2015-07-30 |
| INVESCO ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | — | 1993-01-06 |
| J O HAMBRO CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 1993-01-06 | 2012-05-01 |
| KIN COMPANY SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2015-07-30 | 2023-09-04 |
| SGH COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2023-09-04 | 2025-05-15 |
| BROOKE, Richard David Christopher, Sir | Director | 1994-07-06 | 1998-07-20 |
| KEENE, Bryan Richard | Director | — | 1993-05-02 |
| PERKINS, Claudia Margaret Cecil | Director | 1999-09-01 | 2000-11-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust Plc | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 114 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-06-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2024-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2023-09-05 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-09-05 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2022-05-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-17 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2021-07-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-11-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
-11.4%
-£740,001 -£824,158
-
Employees
0%
1 1
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