BUDDI LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-21 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-07
Watchouts
Cash
£17M
-43.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£26M
-44.1% vs 2023
Employees
101
+5.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
-89.6% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £50,912,000 | £45,649,000 | |
| Operating profit | £16,346,000 | £1,311,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £18,041,000 | £1,875,000 | |
| Net profit | £15,831,000 | £334,000 | |
| Cash | £30,594,000 | £17,420,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £46,273,000 | £26,520,000 | |
| Net assets | £45,700,000 | £25,548,000 | |
| Equity | £45,700,000 | £25,548,000 | |
| Average employees | 96 | 101 | |
| Wages | £5,328,000 | £5,615,000 |
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 | 32.1% | 2.9% | |
| Net margin | 31.1% | 0.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 35.3% | 4.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 17.0% | 46.4% | |
| Current ratio | 5.97x | 2.92x | |
| Interest cover | 398.68x | 10.93x |
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
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that there are no material uncertainties that cast significant doubt about the Company's ability to continue in operation and meet its liabilities as they fall due for the foreseeable future, being a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Group structure
- BUDDI LIMITED · parent
- Electronic Medical Solutions Limited 100%
- Buddi Colombia Sucursal Limited 100%
- Buddi Australia Pty Limited 100%
- Union Temporal Vigilancia Electronica (UTVELEC) 100%
- Buddi New Zealand Limited 100%
- Buddi Guatemala Sucursal Limited 100%
- Buddi SA 100%
Significant events
- “On 31 March 2025, it was announced that the Company had dismissed Sara Murray from her position as Chief Executive Officer, terminated her employment contract and removed her as a Director. On the same date, the Company issued legal proceedings and made an application for a freezing order against her and associated entities in the High Court.”
- “Separately, the Court proceedings brought by a group of former shareholders of the Company continue to be defended and the Company is applying to join Sara Murray as a Part 20 Defendant to those proceedings with a view to the Company seeking to recover directly from Sara Murray any liabilities that the Company is held to have pursuant to any decision at trial.”
- “On18 March 2025, Big Technologies PLC announced that it had suspended Sara Murray from her role as Chief Executive Officer, owing to concerns in respect of her conduct.”
- “Sara Murray was a beneficiary under the Growth Share Plan and the holder of 47 A Shares in the Company as at 31 December 2024. In accordance with the provisions of the articles in the Company these shares have been bought back for a consideration of £1 per A share and cancelled.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNS, Michael Stratford | Director | 2025-04-04 | Apr 1988 | British |
| JOHNSON, Ian Roy | Director | 2025-05-07 | Jun 1953 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGIOU-PAVLI, Sophie | Secretary | 2012-01-01 | 2025-07-02 |
| MURRAY, Judith Rowena | Secretary | 2004-12-09 | 2012-01-01 |
| D'ARCY, Philippa Clare | Director | 2016-03-03 | 2017-03-14 |
| KANTER, Ralph Thomas Ludwig | Director | 2010-10-06 | 2011-02-28 |
| KAY, John Anderson, Professor | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2017-03-14 |
| LEWINTON, Charles | Director | 2017-01-23 | 2025-08-06 |
| MCLAREN, John Alexander | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2016-04-14 |
| MORRIS, Daren John | Director | 2021-11-21 | 2025-05-08 |
| MURRAY, Sara Elizabeth, Dr | Director | 2004-12-09 | 2025-03-31 |
| SANCHEZ-VALENZUELA, Jose Antonio | Director | 2010-10-06 | 2014-03-31 |
| STEVENS, John Arthur, Lord | Director | 2011-05-31 | 2016-04-14 |
| TELLWRIGHT, Arabella Mary | Director | 2010-10-06 | 2011-04-30 |
| WILBRAHAM, Philip Neville | Director | 2016-03-03 | 2020-12-10 |
| WOLFSON, Julian Mark | Director | 2011-09-29 | 2016-04-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Technologies Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2018-05-30 | Active |
| Dr Sara Elizabeth Murray | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-07-08 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 123 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-03-16 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-11-20 | RP04PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Second filing notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-31 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2025-10-21 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-08-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-30 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-04-30 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-04-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-05 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2024-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 6
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
-10.3%
£50,912,000 £45,649,000
-
Cash
-43.1%
£30,594,000 £17,420,000
-
Net assets
-44.1%
£45,700,000 £25,548,000
-
Employees
+5.2%
96 101
-
Operating profit
-92%
£16,346,000 £1,311,000
-
Profit before tax
-89.6%
£18,041,000 £1,875,000
-
Wages
+5.4%
£5,328,000 £5,615,000
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