PARK CARD SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-16 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-62.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£9M
+48.3% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£4M
+16.4% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- PARK CARD SERVICES LIMITED 2009-03-19 → present
- FAMILY LOANS LIMITED 1996-12-31 → 2009-03-19
- ADVERTCAREER LIMITED 1996-11-18 → 1996-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £10,934,000 | £12,703,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,415,000 | £3,975,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,415,000 | £3,975,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,561,000 | £2,981,000 | |
| Cash | £9,729,000 | £3,664,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,175,000 | £9,156,000 | |
| Net assets | £6,175,000 | £9,156,000 | |
| Equity | £6,175,000 | £9,156,000 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| 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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 31.2% | 31.3% | |
| Net margin | 23.4% | 23.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 55.3% | 43.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 91.1% | 89.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.10x | 1.12x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the financial support provide from its ultimate parent company, the directors, have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources available to it to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future for at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements and therefore have prepared these financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “On 14 May 2025, PayPoint and Utilita came to a settlement such that Utilita has withdrawn its claim against PayPoint. As part of this settlement, the two parties have agreed to a new 5-year contract for over-the-counter prepayment services.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INDIGO CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2024-01-26 | — | — |
| BIRCH, Simon Phillip | Director | 2024-03-15 | Apr 1969 | British |
| COGHLAN, Julian Graham | Director | 2023-01-09 | Sep 1969 | British |
| COLES, Simon | Director | 2024-03-15 | Sep 1968 | British |
| HARDING, David Robert | Director | 2023-09-11 | Aug 1974 | British |
| PAUL, Christopher Richard Thomas | Director | 2024-09-10 | Jan 1980 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIFFITHS, Gareth Vaughan | Secretary | 2021-03-05 | 2022-11-15 |
| MCLELLAND, Brian | Secretary | 2023-06-19 | 2023-12-29 |
| INDIGO CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2022-11-15 | 2023-06-19 |
| PARK GROUP SECRETARIES LTD | Corporate Secretary | 1996-12-05 | 2021-03-05 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-11-18 | 1996-12-05 |
| AHMED, Talha | Director | 2023-02-27 | 2023-02-27 |
| ALEXANDER, Neil | Director | 1998-10-30 | 2001-09-25 |
| CLANCY, Timothy Patrick | Director | 2018-08-28 | 2022-07-31 |
| HOUGHTON, Christopher | Director | 2001-09-11 | 2018-02-01 |
| JOHNSON, Peter Robert | Director | 2000-09-22 | 2009-03-13 |
| JOHNSON, Peter Robert | Director | 1996-12-05 | 1998-10-30 |
| KERR, Alastair Gibson | Director | 1998-09-30 | 2000-09-22 |
| O'DOHERTY, John Sullivan | Director | 2018-02-01 | 2022-07-31 |
| PARSONS, Guy Paul Cuthbert | Director | 2022-08-01 | 2023-09-11 |
| STEWART, Martin Richard | Director | 2009-03-13 | 2018-08-04 |
| INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-11-18 | 1996-12-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appreciate Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 125 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-21 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-04 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-04-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-19 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2024-09-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-02 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-01-03 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-09-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-19 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-19 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-03-30 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+16.2%
£10,934,000 £12,703,000
-
Cash
-62.3%
£9,729,000 £3,664,000
-
Net assets
+48.3%
£6,175,000 £9,156,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+16.4%
£3,415,000 £3,975,000
-
Profit before tax
+16.4%
£3,415,000 £3,975,000
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