NAVOLIO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-27
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-11
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£58K
-19.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£985K
-22.9% vs 2024
Employees
1,003
-12.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£165K
-72.9% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-05-11.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-27
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-28 | 2025-04-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £22,050,914 | £19,815,211 | |
| Operating profit | £656,639 | £211,332 | |
| Profit before tax | £606,653 | £164,609 | |
| Net profit | £450,918 | £104,836 | |
| Cash | £71,828 | £58,015 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,409,168 | £1,083,536 | |
| Net assets | £1,277,967 | £984,823 | |
| Equity | £1,277,967 | £984,823 | |
| Average employees | 1,143 | 1,003 | |
| Wages | £18,220,328 | £16,507,278 |
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 | 2024-04-28 | 2025-04-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.0% | 1.1% | |
| Net margin | 2.0% | 0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 46.6% | 19.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.31x | 1.20x | |
| Interest cover | 11.52x | 4.00x |
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
- Kreston Reeves Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As discussed in the going concern accounting policy, the Directors consider that the company remains a going concern. Financial projections and scenario analysis looking forward for a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing of these financial statements have been prepared by management and demonstrate that the company is expected to have sufficient cash to enable it to meet its liabilities as they become due.”
Group structure
- NAVOLIO LIMITED · parent
- Off to Work Ltd 100%
- Off to Work (Ireland) Limited 100%
- SAS Off to Work 100%
Significant events
- “The consistent higher-than-historic levels of inflation in supply chains, and further UK tax burden, has had a negative effect on demand. This has been countered by the average transaction value increasing with the increases in minimum wage and the knock-on effect throughout the labour market in our sector. The much larger increases in costs which were announced in the autumn budget in 2024 have now fed through fully into the sector and have now been adjusted to by our clients.”
- “The recruitment sector is competitive and as such the company continues to face competitor risk in the markets where we operate. There are current signs of distress in the market with competitors, who have been operating at low levels of gross profit, now exiting the market. This offers opportunities for growth moving ahead. There continues to be a rise in internal recruiters within our client sector increasing competition.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATKINS, Joanna Catherine | Director | 2001-01-08 | Feb 1971 | British |
| ATKINS, Philip Farquhar | Director | 1999-07-05 | Sep 1970 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATKINS, Jacqueline Marjorie | Secretary | 1999-07-05 | 2025-01-28 |
| COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1999-04-27 | 1999-07-05 |
| COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1999-04-27 | 1999-07-05 |
| COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1999-04-27 | 1999-07-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Philip Farquhar Atkins | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 105 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-02-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-02-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-02-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-28 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-10 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2024-04-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-04-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2020-05-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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 2025-04-27 vs 2024-04-28
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Turnover
-10.1%
£22,050,914 £19,815,211
-
Cash
-19.2%
£71,828 £58,015
-
Net assets
-22.9%
£1,277,967 £984,823
-
Employees
-12.2%
1,143 1,003
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Operating profit
-67.8%
£656,639 £211,332
-
Profit before tax
-72.9%
£606,653 £164,609
-
Wages
-9.4%
£18,220,328 £16,507,278
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