PENNANT INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-19 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-05
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
-4.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£8M
-15% vs 2023
Employees
139
-0.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£3M
-728.6% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The Directors have concluded that there are scenarios whereby the levels of forecast new business converted, or the timings of conversion are delayed which represents a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt upon the company's ability to continue as a going concern - scenarios under which the Company may be unable to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- PENNANT INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC 1998-02-12 → present
- THE COURT TRUST LIMITED 1996-06-06 → 1998-02-12
- THE COURT TRUST (1996) LIMITED 1996-04-18 → 1996-06-06
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,535,000 | £13,775,000 | |
| Operating profit | £95,000 | -£2,602,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£367,000 | -£3,041,000 | |
| Net profit | -£933,000 | -£2,575,000 | |
| Cash | £1,099,000 | £1,045,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,745,000 | £8,904,000 | |
| Net assets | £9,817,000 | £8,344,000 | |
| Equity | £9,817,000 | £8,344,000 | |
| Average employees | 140 | 139 | |
| Wages | £8,690,000 | £8,327,000 |
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 | 0.6% | -18.9% | |
| Net margin | -6.0% | -18.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.9% | -29.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 47.5% | 47.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.18x | 1.08x | |
| Interest cover | 0.21x | -5.86x |
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
- S&W Partners Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The Directors have concluded that there are scenarios whereby the levels of forecast new business converted, or the timings of conversion are delayed which represents a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt upon the company's ability to continue as a going concern - scenarios under which the Company may be unable to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.”
Group structure
- PENNANT INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC · parent
- Pennant International Limited 100%
- Pennant Rail Holdings Limited 100%
- Track Access Productions Limited 100%
- Aviation Skills Foundation Limited 100%
- Pennant SIP Trustee Limited 100%
- Pennant Canada Limited 100%
- Pennant Australasia Pty Limited 100%
- Pennant Information Services Inc. 100%
- Halter Holdings Pty Ltd 100%
- Absolute Data Group Pty Ltd 100%
- Pennant America Inc. 100%
Significant events
- “On 24th February 2025 the company announced the disposal of unit D at the Group's Staverton site for a cash consideration of £0.83 million as part of the previously announced streamlining of the Group's Training Division.”
- “On 7th April 2025 the company announced the exchange of contracts on three more commercial properties at the Group's Staverton site (units D3, D4 and car park). The aggregate consideration is £1.2 million and completion on each of the transactions is set for 25 April 2025.”
- “During April 2025 the Group renewed its overdraft facility with its bankers, HSBC, at a limit of £2 million, for 12 months, secured by charges on the remaining owned land & buildings at Cheltenham, UK.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARK, Louise Emily | Secretary | 2026-04-01 | — | — |
| WALKER, Philip Henry | Secretary | 2026-02-13 | — | — |
| DIGHE, Ian Robert | Director | 2024-02-07 | Sep 1955 | British |
| KEMPSTER, Jonathan | Director | 2024-07-18 | Jan 1963 | British |
| VAN DER LEEST, Klaas Peter | Director | 2024-09-03 | Nov 1966 | Dutch |
| WALKER, Philip Henry | Director | 2014-11-03 | Jun 1980 | British |
| WIGGINS, Darren John | Director | 2024-11-20 | Jun 1981 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEMENTS, David | Secretary | 2017-06-15 | 2026-01-14 |
| WALKER, Philip Henry | Secretary | 2014-11-03 | 2017-06-15 |
| WALLER, John Mark | Secretary | 1996-04-18 | 2014-11-03 |
| BARNES, Gary Robert | Director | 2018-04-01 | 2019-11-21 |
| BRINSON, Michael John | Director | 2023-01-01 | 2024-08-13 |
| CLEMENTS, David Joseph | Director | 2017-10-11 | 2026-01-14 |
| COTTON, Philip James | Director | 2019-06-14 | 2024-07-17 |
| MOORE, Simon Alick | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2021-06-02 |
| PEARCE, Steven Max | Director | 1998-02-05 | 2008-05-13 |
| PONSONBY, John Maurice Maynard | Director | 2018-04-01 | 2022-10-22 |
| POWELL, Christopher Charles | Director | 1996-04-18 | 2019-05-01 |
| POWELL, Jennifer Katherine | Director | 2010-11-03 | 2016-03-03 |
| RICE, Timothy Julian | Director | 2016-09-26 | 2018-09-24 |
| SKATES, Mervyn John | Director | 2020-01-01 | 2022-03-31 |
| SNOOK, Christopher | Director | 2004-09-01 | 2017-02-21 |
| THOMPSON, Joseph John James | Director | 1996-04-18 | 2004-12-31 |
| WALLER, John Mark | Director | 2014-11-12 | 2014-12-31 |
| WALLER, John Mark | Director | 2014-11-03 | 2014-12-31 |
| WALLER, John Mark | Director | 1996-04-18 | 2014-11-03 |
| WILKINSON, Deborah Janet | Director | 2023-02-01 | 2025-06-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 225 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-06-23 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-08-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-04-14 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-02-19 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-01-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-15 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-25 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-08-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-06-23 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-06-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-03 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-05 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-08-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 4
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
-11.3%
£15,535,000 £13,775,000
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Cash
-4.9%
£1,099,000 £1,045,000
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Net assets
-15%
£9,817,000 £8,344,000
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Employees
-0.7%
140 139
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Operating profit
-2,838.9%
£95,000 -£2,602,000
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Profit before tax
-728.6%
-£367,000 -£3,041,000
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Wages
-4.2%
£8,690,000 £8,327,000
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