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Next accounts due

2026-07-31 (in 2mo)

Last filed for 2024-10-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-06-19 (in 1mo)

Last made up 2025-06-05

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£11M

+4.9% vs 2023

Net assets

£29M

+27.6% vs 2023

Employees

132

+11.9% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£7M

+317% vs 2023

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-10-31

Metric Trend 2023-10-312024-10-31
Turnover £83,977,000£110,811,000
Operating profit £386,000£7,349,000
Profit before tax £1,709,000£7,127,000
Net profit £1,188,000£6,339,000
Cash £10,023,000£10,518,000
Total assets less current liabilities £23,121,000£29,355,000
Net assets £23,004,000£29,343,000
Equity £23,004,000£29,343,000
Average employees 118132
Wages £4,693,000£5,260,000

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 2023-10-312024-10-31
Operating margin 0.5%6.6%
Net margin 1.4%5.7%
Return on capital employed 1.7%25.0%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 55.7%52.1%
Current ratio 0.47x0.48x
Interest cover 7.72x6.46x

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
BDO LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The financial statements have been approved on the assumption that the Company remains a going concern. The following paragraphs summarise the issues and basis on which the Directors have reached their conclusion. The Company is a member of the Group headed by the Bucharest Topco Limited. The Directors have assessed the going concern of the Group and the Company for the upcoming 2025 and beyond and have prepared a detailed budget which considers the impact of cost of living, inflation, interest rates, the global travel environment and customer behaviour. The Directors have also evaluated downside scenarios and have tested the going concern assumption against these as part of their assessment. As a result, the Directors consider the going concern basis to be appropriate based on the outturn of these projections, recent post year end trading and access to working capital facilities throughout the period. The Company is subject to regulation by the Civil Aviation Authority (the "CAA") who each year review the financial position and performance of the Company in issuing the annual Air Travel Organisers' Licence which is effective from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. At the time of signing, the Company are in receipt of an offer letter from the CAA and expect all conditions to be met to successfully renew. The wider Group has considerable financial resources and is expected to generate positive cashflows for the foreseeable future. As a result, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and the Company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly they have adopted the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

  1. GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS LIMITED · parent
    1. GRJ (Transport) Limited 100% · England and Wales · provision of transport arrangements for Great Rail Journeys Limited.

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

2 active · 20 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
RILEY, David James Director 2018-09-28 Aug 1980 British
STEWART, Andrew Dominic Director 2024-11-21 Jun 1979 British
Show 20 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
BACKHOUSE, Michael Secretary 2004-07-19 2006-02-01
JOHNSON, Martin Graham Secretary 2006-02-01 2018-09-28
MACBETH, Mary Catherine Secretary 1996-06-05 2001-03-30
WOODROFFE, Kathleen Ann Secretary 2001-04-02 2004-07-19
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED Corporate Nominee Secretary 1996-06-05 1996-06-05
APPLEYARD, Julian Director 2014-10-30 2024-11-21
CLARKE, Keith George Director 2007-10-01 2016-08-31
CUST, Nicholas Pury Director 2011-01-27 2018-07-09
GASTER, David John Director 2005-09-20 2013-03-28
JOHNSON, Martin Graham Director 2006-02-01 2018-09-28
KIMBER, Steven Andrew Howard Director 2005-09-20 2009-12-24
LEE, Stephen Gerard Director 2022-10-26 2025-05-30
LINEY, Peter Richard Director 2013-09-06 2022-11-30
MACBETH, Ian Director 1996-06-05 2005-09-20
PRITCHARD, Noeleen Patricia Rita Director 2016-09-01 2021-09-13
ROBERTS, Alexander James Director 2008-04-07 2018-09-28
SKOLNICK, Jonathan Philip Director 2022-10-26 2025-05-30
TAYLOR, Mark Andrew Director 2007-12-03 2019-12-09
TRINDER, Howard Philip Director 1996-06-05 2005-09-20
WILSON, Robert Graham Director 2010-01-04 2013-03-28

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Great Rail Journeys Partnership Ltd Corporate entity Shares 75–100% 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 129 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2025-07-02 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-06-19 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-06-11 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2025-06-11 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-12-06 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2024-12-03 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-12-03 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2024-08-05 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-06-26 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-08-09 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-06-12 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-12-07 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-10-26 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2022-10-26 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2022-07-15 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-07-04 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-05-30 AD01 address Change registered office address company with date old address new address PDF
2021-09-21 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2021-08-08 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-07-02 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
4

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
2

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 2024-10-31 vs 2023-10-31

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

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