STRATEGIC EQUITY CAPITAL PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-24 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
+4% vs 2024
Net assets
£174M
-8.3% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£3M
-109.9% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- STRATEGIC EQUITY CAPITAL PLC 2005-07-04 → present
- STRATEGIC EQUITY CAPITAL LIMITED 2005-06-15 → 2005-07-04
- TRUSHELFCO (NO.3157) LIMITED 2005-05-10 → 2005-06-15
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,163,000 | £4,456,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £26,827,000 | -£2,668,000 | |
| Net profit | £26,827,000 | -£2,668,000 | |
| Cash | £9,153,000 | £9,519,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £189,965,000 | £174,153,000 | |
| Net assets | £189,965,000 | £174,153,000 | |
| Equity | £189,965,000 | £174,153,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| 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 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 435.3% | -59.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 0.9% | 0.1% | |
| Current ratio | 5.42x | 39.52x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Johnston Carmichael LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on this assessment, the Directors are confident that the Company's investment approach, portfolio management and balance sheet approach will ensure that the Company will be able to continue in operation and meet its liabilities as they fall due over the period to 30 June 2028.”
Group structure
- STRATEGIC EQUITY CAPITAL PLC · parent
- Iomart Group 15.3%
- Trufin 11.8%
- Inspired 10.8%
- Ricardo 6.6%
- Brooks Macdonald 6.3%
- Netcall 6.3%
- Diaceutics 6.1%
- Costain Group 4.5%
- Tribal Group 3.9%
- The Property Franchise Group 3.7%
- Everplay Group 3.4%
Significant events
- “We made two new investments during the period: Diaceutics... Next 15 Group...”
- “The Manager fully exited its position in Alpha Financial Markets Consulting... The full exits of Ricardo and Inspired... are expected to complete in the second half of the 2025 calendar year.”
- “The Manager also took the opportunity to add to several existing holdings at attractive valuations, including Brooks Macdonald, Costain, Halfords, Inspired, Iomart, Netcall, Ricardo, Everplay and Trufin.”
- “The culmination of our collaboration with these stakeholders was a Recommended Cash Offer for Ricardo at a 69% premium...”
- “Inspired's advisors... were able to deliver a Recommended Cash Offer for Inspired at 81p from a different counterparty...”
- “During the year 3,491,650 shares were bought back to be held in Treasury.”
- “On 15 September 2025 the Company issued a circular providing shareholders with the opportunity to tender up to 100% of the Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding Ordinary Shares held in treasury). A total of 9,510,496 Ordinary Shares were validly tendered, representing approximately 22% of the issued share capital of the Company.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JUNIPER PARTNERS LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2016-10-01 | — | — |
| BARLOW, John William Marshall | Director | 2016-02-01 | Mar 1964 | British |
| COLEMAN, Annie Margaret | Director | 2022-02-14 | May 1959 | British |
| LOCKE, Richard Edmund Staniforth | Director | 2015-02-10 | Nov 1966 | British |
| SUTCLIFFE, Brigid Ann | Director | 2023-02-08 | Jul 1959 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Howard | Director | 2023-02-08 | Dec 1960 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAPITA SINCLAIR HENDERSON LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2005-07-12 | 2016-10-01 |
| TRUSEC LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2005-05-10 | 2005-07-12 |
| BINNIE, Stewart John | Director | 2005-07-01 | 2006-11-01 |
| COLLIER, Edward John | Director | 2005-06-10 | 2005-07-01 |
| CORNISH, John Essex | Director | 2006-09-06 | 2014-11-14 |
| CRONIN, Padraig Joseph | Director | 2005-06-10 | 2005-07-01 |
| DIGHE, Ian Robert | Director | 2009-11-13 | 2015-11-11 |
| DIXON, Josephine | Director | 2014-07-14 | 2023-11-08 |
| HILLS, Richard John | Director | 2014-03-05 | 2022-11-09 |
| HODSON, John | Director | 2005-07-01 | 2015-02-10 |
| MONIR, Nicole Frances | Director | 2005-05-10 | 2005-06-10 |
| MORGAN, Jonathan Windsor | Director | 2005-07-01 | 2007-11-06 |
| MORRISON, David John | Director | 2019-02-01 | 2021-03-30 |
| PHILLIPS, Michael Charles | Director | 2007-08-09 | 2014-07-14 |
| STOKER, Louise Jane | Director | 2005-05-10 | 2005-06-10 |
| THOMPSON, Clive Malcolm, Sir | Director | 2005-07-01 | 2018-11-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 354 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2026-03-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2026-02-16 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2026-01-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2026-01-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-30 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-12-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-11-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-11-05 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-10-03 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-09-18 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-07-24 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-07-17 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-07-03 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-07-03 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-06-11 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-06-03 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-20 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-04-30 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 19
- Capital events
- 17
- 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 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
-
Turnover
-27.7%
£6,163,000 £4,456,000
-
Cash
+4%
£9,153,000 £9,519,000
-
Net assets
-8.3%
£189,965,000 £174,153,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Profit before tax
-109.9%
£26,827,000 -£2,668,000
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