CATALYST BY DESIGN LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-15 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+267.8% vs 2024
Net assets
-£12M
+17.5% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£1M
+144.5% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £2,475,000 | £8,186,000 | |
| Operating profit | £634,000 | £1,562,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£2,470,000 | £1,098,000 | |
| Net profit | -£2,470,000 | £2,609,000 | |
| Cash | £1,034,000 | £3,803,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £13,416,000 | £10,266,000 | |
| Net assets | -£14,874,000 | -£12,265,000 | |
| Equity | -£14,874,000 | -£12,265,000 | |
| 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 | 25.6% | 19.1% | |
| Net margin | -99.8% | 31.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.7% | 15.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 122.0% | 111.4% | |
| Current ratio | 0.98x | 0.94x | |
| Interest cover | 0.20x | 3.26x |
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
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board has a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of at least twelve months after the date on which the report and financial statements are signed. The Company has a strong future sales programme in FY25-26, and the current intercompany lending arrangement will be extended. Support will be continued by the Parent of the Company.”
Significant events
- “The Company does not consider any events since the financial year-end to have had a significant effect on the year-end financial position.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WYKES, Louise | Secretary | 2024-05-01 | — | — |
| HOULT, Eleanor Case | Director | 2023-04-01 | Apr 1980 | British |
| JENKINS, Philip | Director | 2019-07-29 | Jan 1971 | British |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATKINSON, Sophie | Secretary | 2018-01-15 | 2021-06-17 |
| CAMERON, Sarah | Secretary | 2023-12-01 | 2024-05-01 |
| GILES, Brenda | Secretary | 2022-06-01 | 2023-12-01 |
| HARDYSMITH, Catherine | Secretary | 2017-10-02 | 2018-01-15 |
| KING, Margaret | Secretary | 2007-08-16 | 2016-07-15 |
| MAGUIRE, Emma Suzanne | Secretary | 2021-06-17 | 2022-05-31 |
| MCBRIDE, Susan | Secretary | 2016-07-15 | 2017-10-02 |
| BARNES, Edwin | Director | 2018-10-24 | 2019-07-29 |
| BROWN, Richard Howard | Director | 2016-07-27 | 2017-09-13 |
| CAHILL, Roderick Nicholas | Director | 2007-08-16 | 2018-12-31 |
| CARLTON SMITH, Jane Mary | Director | 2007-09-05 | 2014-09-10 |
| CHAMBERS, Joseph Paul | Director | 2019-03-27 | 2019-07-29 |
| DENNIS, Rachael | Director | 2017-09-13 | 2019-04-05 |
| ERWIN, James | Director | 2010-04-30 | 2011-10-25 |
| HODSON, Justin Timothy | Director | 2007-09-05 | 2010-04-30 |
| HUGHES, Eamonn | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2024-03-31 |
| JENNINGS, Timothy Michael | Director | 2019-07-29 | 2022-04-01 |
| MACKENZIE, Gerard Joseph | Director | 2007-09-05 | 2012-10-09 |
| MARKEY, Anne Carmel | Director | 2013-07-24 | 2017-09-13 |
| MCDERMOTT, Ian Jeffrey | Director | 2019-01-03 | 2021-09-30 |
| MCDONALD, Mavis, Dame | Director | 2007-09-05 | 2011-07-27 |
| PARSONAGE, Susan Karen | Director | 2013-07-24 | 2016-06-08 |
| SKUSE, Stephen | Director | 2019-08-06 | 2020-04-08 |
| SMITH, Richard Buchanan | Director | 2020-04-08 | 2023-03-31 |
| STEVENSON, Heneage John | Director | 2011-07-27 | 2017-09-13 |
| THOMAS, Sarah Louise | Director | 2019-07-29 | 2023-03-31 |
| TITHERINGTON, Tom | Director | 2011-10-25 | 2018-09-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalyst Housing Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-06-30 | Ceased 2023-04-03 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 155 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-08 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-05-08 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-04-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-05 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-12-05 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-10-20 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-10-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-05-16 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2023-05-16 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
+230.7%
£2,475,000 £8,186,000
-
Cash
+267.8%
£1,034,000 £3,803,000
-
Net assets
+17.5%
-£14,874,000 -£12,265,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+146.4%
£634,000 £1,562,000
-
Profit before tax
+144.5%
-£2,470,000 £1,098,000
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