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STEP BY STEP PARTNERSHIP LTD
Profile
- Company number
- 02431825
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 1989-10-12
- Last accounts made up
- 2025-03-31
- Account category
- GROUP
- Primary SIC
- 87900
- Hubs
- UK Healthcare
Accounts
Pending extraction
Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated (group)
- Auditor
- Sayer Vincent LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In determining that the Charity continues to be a going concern for the purposes of preparing these financial statements, the Trustees have considered the following: The financial performance of the Charity since 31 March 2025 and current balance sheet position. 2025/26 Budgets and forecasts of performance of the Charity to 31 August 2026, including cash flow. the new contract opportunities and investments that are being progressed that evidence the benefit of the new foundations set for the Charity over the last few years. Through this review, the Trustees have assessed that the Charity continues to be a going concern.”
Subsidiaries
- Step by Step Fostering Limited · 1% held · England · non-primary purpose trading activities
Significant events
- “In March 2025, our Supported Lodgings service was inspected under the new Ofsted regime and received a 'Consistently Good' rating.”
- “Step by Step successfully raised a cash receipts figure of £684,673 in 2024/25.”
- “We also launched a rebrand of the Charity, introducing the "Be the Hero" campaign.”
- “A key milestone this year was the purchase of Krystal House in Havant, subsequently renamed Gathergood House, providing supported housing for up to six young people at any one time.”
- “Step by Step Fostering Limited, our subsidiary fostering agency, continued to grow steadily towards meeting its business plan. We now have seven approved foster carers, with three additional carers in the pipeline for panel assessment in 2025.”
Auditor / going-concern / subsidiary information is extracted from the PDF version of the latest annual accounts and is not tagged in iXBRL. About these numbers
People
9 active · 54 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARNES, Lucy Alannah Rosemary | Secretary | 2020-07-18 | — | — |
| BARNES, Lucy Alannah Rosemary | Director | 2020-06-18 | Jan 1975 | British |
| GALLAGHER, Clare | Director | 2022-10-31 | Aug 1976 | British |
| MITCHELL, Andrew Scott | Director | 2020-03-17 | Apr 1964 | British |
| MOWAT, James William | Director | 2020-03-17 | Apr 1986 | British |
| MYLVAGANAM, Sasitharan | Director | 2019-04-24 | Oct 1953 | British |
| PORTAL, Jonathan Francis, Sir | Director | 2019-04-15 | Jan 1953 | British |
| SKERRY, Caroline | Director | 2020-02-04 | Jan 1977 | British |
| WARD, Rebecca Jane, Dr | Director | 2025-05-01 | Jun 1974 | British |
Show 54 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRETT, Sarah Catherine | Secretary | 1997-04-05 | 1999-07-07 |
| CHAPMAN, Alan Charles | Secretary | 2009-12-03 | 2020-07-18 |
| JELF, Nowell Fitz Cary | Secretary | — | 1993-09-20 |
| LINDO, Malcolm | Secretary | 1999-07-07 | 2001-06-02 |
| PARROTT, Christopher Henry Garwood | Secretary | 2001-06-02 | 2009-10-13 |
| TINLING, Michael Leigh Scott | Secretary | 1994-01-17 | 1997-04-05 |
| AUTERI, Andrea | Director | 2018-11-17 | 2022-10-31 |
| BEDFORD, Diane Beverley | Director | 2008-03-05 | 2015-11-19 |
| BREARLEY, Stephen David | Director | 2022-10-31 | 2024-12-23 |
| BRETT, Sarah Catherine | Director | 1997-04-05 | 1999-07-07 |
| BROWN, Michael James | Director | 1996-09-28 | 2014-10-02 |
| BULGIN, Bruce Grant | Director | 2006-02-03 | 2008-10-07 |
| CARMAN, Nina May | Director | 1996-05-11 | 2004-02-02 |
| CARVALHO, Presnentacao Antonio Das Dores, Dr | Director | — | 1996-10-24 |
| CHAPMAN, Alan Charles | Director | 2010-08-09 | 2016-12-05 |
| CLARK, Elayna Margaret | Director | 2011-07-04 | 2012-10-04 |
| CLEMENTS, Joanna Romayne | Director | 1999-07-07 | 2002-02-21 |
| CLIFFORD, David Edward | Director | 2007-02-13 | 2008-03-05 |
| COOK, John Anthony Edward Alfred | Director | — | 1993-02-22 |
| CRANE, Philip Edwin | Director | 1996-05-11 | 2011-10-18 |
| CRANE, Ruth Constance | Director | 1996-05-11 | 2005-10-19 |
| CROWTHER, Bridgett Dolores | Director | — | 2006-03-31 |
| CUMMINS, Paul | Director | 2016-05-23 | 2019-07-15 |
| DEVLIN, John Sydney | Director | 2006-07-25 | 2024-11-04 |
| ELLIOTT, John Patrick | Director | — | 1997-06-07 |
| EMERSON, Edward Christopher | Director | — | 1992-08-01 |
| END, Valerie Pauline | Director | 1996-05-11 | 1997-04-05 |
| GATHERGOOD, Keith | Director | 2010-04-28 | 2025-06-01 |
| HAMIDUDDIN, Sarah | Director | 2014-02-16 | 2018-08-06 |
| HANNINGTON, Stephen James | Director | — | 1995-03-25 |
| HURST, Peter Robert | Director | 2004-07-31 | 2009-10-13 |
| JAMES, Leah Katherine Anne | Director | 2018-09-22 | 2019-11-15 |
| JAMES, Russell Thomas | Director | 2006-02-03 | 2022-09-23 |
| KAYE, Charles Fitzroy Coogan | Director | 2007-02-13 | 2008-10-03 |
| KENT, Philip John | Director | 2016-07-11 | 2019-11-15 |
| LAMBERT, Ian Paul | Director | 2006-07-25 | 2008-05-20 |
| LINDO, Malcolm | Director | 1999-07-07 | 2001-06-02 |
| LUCAS, Jolyon Philip | Director | — | 1996-03-25 |
| MARTIN, Richard Hubert Joseph Baynes | Director | 1995-05-15 | 1997-02-01 |
| MCCURRACH, Maureen Hagen | Director | — | 1994-10-31 |
| MURPHY, Anthony John | Director | 2013-12-15 | 2019-07-08 |
| NEIL, Jamie Gibson | Director | 2016-10-05 | 2018-02-01 |
| PARROTT, Christopher Henry Garwood | Director | 1994-01-17 | 2009-10-13 |
| PORTO, Sue | Director | 2014-06-06 | 2016-02-10 |
| SCARBOROUGH, John Thomas | Director | 1993-01-15 | 1996-05-11 |
| SCOULAR, Mark Anthony | Director | 2019-04-12 | 2019-11-15 |
| SMITH, Robert Stjohn | Director | 2010-08-09 | 2012-07-18 |
| THOMAS, Caren | Director | 2018-12-10 | 2022-10-31 |
| THOMAS, Gordon Herbert | Director | 1997-10-30 | 2006-03-31 |
| THOMAS, Gordon Herbert | Director | — | 1993-10-12 |
| TINLING, Michael Leigh Scott | Director | 1994-01-17 | 1997-04-05 |
| VIVEASH, Peter John | Director | — | 2003-07-26 |
| WILKS, Alison Mary | Director | 2009-11-29 | 2013-07-29 |
| WREN, Christopher Raymond | Director | — | 1994-01-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 211 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2025-09-17 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2025-06-09 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2025-05-09 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2024-12-24 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2024-11-10 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2024-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2024-09-11 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2023-10-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2023-09-19 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2022-11-07 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2022-11-07 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2022-11-07 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2022-11-07 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2022-10-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2022-10-18 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2022-09-27 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2022-09-13 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2022-06-29 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2021-11-09 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
Credit score
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Activity Score
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