AFI-UPLIFT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-28 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£156K
+83.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£2M
-52.4% vs 2023
Employees
333
-5.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£3M
+30.9% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- AFI-UPLIFT LIMITED 2007-03-14 → present
- AFI AERIAL PLATFORMS LIMITED 2002-05-30 → 2007-03-14
- AERIALS FOR INDUSTRY LIMITED 1998-04-02 → 2002-05-30
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £49,440,000 | £51,223,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,717,000 | £4,482,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£4,150,000 | -£2,866,000 | |
| Net profit | -£2,805,000 | -£2,456,000 | |
| Cash | £85,000 | £156,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,258,000 | £86,951,000 | |
| Net assets | £4,681,000 | £2,226,000 | |
| Equity | £4,681,000 | £2,226,000 | |
| Average employees | 353 | 333 | |
| Wages | £14,928,000 | £14,719,000 |
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 | 3.5% | 8.7% | |
| Net margin | -5.7% | -4.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 12.0% | 5.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 96.0% | 98.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.35x | 1.43x | |
| Interest cover | 0.29x | 0.61x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having carefully considered this analysis as a whole, the directors concluded there to be a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue to trade for at least twelve months from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Group structure
- AFI-UPLIFT LIMITED · parent
- Hi-Lift Equipment Limited 100%
- Findmytraining.co.uk Limited 100%
- Altitude Access Limited 100%
- Hampshire Plant & Access Limited 100%
- Rapid Platforms Limited 100%
- 1st Access Rentals Limited 100%
- Facelift (GB) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In October 2024, the Company refinanced its bank facilities, securing a new £90 million revolving asset-based loan facility for a four-year term with Wells Fargo Capital Finance (UK) Limited.”
- “During the year the Company received an award, for the second year, from sustainability rating business Eco Vadis in recognition of its actions taken and progress.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, Paul Richard | Secretary | 2024-08-27 | — | — |
| GIBSON, Geoffrey | Director | 2002-05-01 | May 1956 | British |
| HIGGINS, Nicholas | Director | 2006-09-12 | Apr 1968 | British |
| JOWETT, Christopher | Director | 2014-01-01 | Aug 1976 | British |
| MCNICHOLAS, David Anthony | Director | 2007-01-23 | Sep 1972 | British |
| ROBERTS, Paul Richard | Director | 2023-07-03 | May 1976 | British |
| SAUNDERS, Richard David | Director | 2003-11-01 | Apr 1967 | British |
| SELLEY, Nicholas John | Director | 2003-03-01 | Jan 1968 | British |
| SHIPMAN, David Cyril | Director | 2002-05-01 | Oct 1959 | British |
| SHIPMAN, Steven Paul | Director | 2021-08-20 | Feb 1965 | British |
| STONALL, Donna | Director | 2021-08-20 | Aug 1982 | British |
| VINCI, Carlo | Director | 2015-01-01 | Jun 1962 | British |
| WAJNER, Peter | Director | 2013-01-01 | Jul 1975 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILDITCH, Susan Elizabeth | Secretary | 1998-04-02 | 1998-04-02 |
| MCNICHOLAS, David Anthony | Secretary | 2009-09-28 | 2012-03-26 |
| ORME, Richard Anthony | Secretary | 2022-12-31 | 2024-08-27 |
| RIDGE, David | Secretary | 1998-04-02 | 2009-09-28 |
| WOODHAMS, Steve | Secretary | 2012-03-26 | 2022-12-31 |
| BAKER, Austin Philip William | Director | 2003-10-01 | 2019-02-05 |
| BOWERS, Malcolm | Director | 1998-04-02 | 2005-09-30 |
| DEMPSTER, William Robert | Director | 2004-07-27 | 2006-09-12 |
| DUGGAN, Ruairi | Director | 2000-08-07 | 2001-05-08 |
| ELLIS, Patricia Anne | Director | 1998-04-02 | 1998-04-02 |
| HAWKINS, Graham | Director | 2021-08-20 | 2025-07-31 |
| HIGGINS, Nicholas | Director | 1998-12-01 | 2001-05-08 |
| ORME, Richard Anthony | Director | 2022-12-31 | 2024-08-27 |
| OSMOND, Graham Peter | Director | 2003-07-01 | 2017-08-01 |
| RIDGE, David | Director | 1998-04-02 | 2009-12-31 |
| SCOTT, Matt | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2019-02-05 |
| THORINGTON, Roger Paul | Director | 2002-03-18 | 2007-08-31 |
| WILLIAMS, Steve | Director | 2013-01-01 | 2020-08-19 |
| WOODHAMS, Steve | Director | 2012-03-26 | 2022-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afi Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 247 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-13 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-01-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-29 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-09-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-01 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-10-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-
Turnover
+3.6%
£49,440,000 £51,223,000
-
Cash
+83.5%
£85,000 £156,000
-
Net assets
-52.4%
£4,681,000 £2,226,000
-
Employees
-5.7%
353 333
-
Operating profit
+161%
£1,717,000 £4,482,000
-
Profit before tax
+30.9%
-£4,150,000 -£2,866,000
-
Wages
-1.4%
£14,928,000 £14,719,000
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