THE BEST CONNECTION GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-08-31 (in 3mo)
Last filed for 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-16 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£818K
+1,525.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£15M
-0.6% vs 2023
Employees
768
-2.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
-42.3% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE BEST CONNECTION GROUP LIMITED 1995-05-15 → present
- RECCI RECRUITMENT LIMITED 1991-04-05 → 1995-05-15
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-11-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £328,209,779 | £338,933,727 | |
| Operating profit | £6,228,576 | £3,712,027 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,758,412 | £3,319,998 | |
| Net profit | £4,233,589 | £2,405,871 | |
| Cash | £50,346 | £818,315 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,037,437 | £14,943,308 | |
| Net assets | £15,037,437 | £14,943,308 | |
| Equity | £15,037,437 | £14,943,308 | |
| Average employees | 788 | 768 | |
| Wages | £27,468,304 | £27,237,261 |
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 | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.9% | 1.1% | |
| Net margin | 1.3% | 0.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 41.4% | 24.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.16x | 1.15x | |
| Interest cover | 12.44x | 5.85x |
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
- PKF Smith Cooper Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Therefore, the Directors consider, after making appropriate enquiries, that the company has adequate resources to continue in operation as a going concern and that the company will be able to meet its obligations for the period covered by the company's cash flow forecasts. Accordingly, the Directors continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing these financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YORKE, Neil Robert | Secretary | 1999-04-15 | — | English |
| AINGE, Darren | Director | 2015-12-01 | Jul 1969 | British |
| HARRIS, Lee | Director | 2015-12-01 | Jul 1969 | British |
| SCHILLING, David | Director | 2015-12-01 | Jan 1965 | British |
| SWEENEY, Andrew Christopher | Director | 1995-12-01 | Jan 1957 | British |
| YORKE, Neil Robert | Director | 1995-12-01 | Mar 1957 | English |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURFORD, Richard | Secretary | 1991-04-05 | 1999-04-15 |
| BURFORD, Richard | Director | 1991-04-05 | 1999-04-15 |
| COOPER, Michael Thomas | Director | 2000-04-03 | 2021-02-26 |
| COOPER, Michael Thomas | Director | 1994-03-01 | 1994-11-28 |
| JEPSON, James Marcus | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2018-06-08 |
| POLLARD, Darren | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2025-03-06 |
| RECCI, Martin John Paul | Director | 1991-04-05 | 2021-02-26 |
| SIMMONDS, Philip | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2019-09-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic Workforce Solutions Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 142 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2024-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-03 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous extended | |
| 2024-06-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-29 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2023-11-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-03-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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 2024-11-30 vs 2023-11-30
-
Turnover
+3.3%
£328,209,779 £338,933,727
-
Cash
+1,525.4%
£50,346 £818,315
-
Net assets
-0.6%
£15,037,437 £14,943,308
-
Employees
-2.5%
788 768
-
Operating profit
-40.4%
£6,228,576 £3,712,027
-
Profit before tax
-42.3%
£5,758,412 £3,319,998
-
Wages
-0.8%
£27,468,304 £27,237,261
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