UNIVERSITY OF LANCASHIRE OVERSEAS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-15 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+5.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£1M
+0.1% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£88K
+1% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- UNIVERSITY OF LANCASHIRE OVERSEAS LIMITED 2025-08-08 → present
- UCLAN (OVERSEAS) LIMITED 2008-04-30 → 2025-08-08
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £636,724 | £525,169 | |
| Operating profit | -£68,347 | -£116,381 | |
| Profit before tax | £86,819 | £87,689 | |
| Net profit | £71,422 | £72,863 | |
| Cash | £1,150,360 | £1,210,837 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,313,050 | £1,313,851 | |
| Net assets | £1,313,050 | £1,313,851 | |
| Equity | £1,313,050 | £1,313,851 | |
| 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 | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -10.7% | -22.2% | |
| Net margin | 11.2% | 13.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -5.2% | -8.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.3% | 6.1% | |
| Current ratio | 18.92x | 16.45x |
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 directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis as they do not intend to liquidate the Company or to cease its operations, and as they have concluded that the Company's financial position means that this is realistic.”
Group structure
- UNIVERSITY OF LANCASHIRE OVERSEAS LIMITED · parent
- Uclan (HK) Limited 100%
- Uclan Lanka (Private) Limited 100%
- Uclan Technology (Shenzhen) Limited 100%
- Uclan Cyprus Limited 51%
- Uclan (Thailand) Company Limited 49%
- Genetel Bioventures Limited 10%
Significant events
- “UCLan Technology (Shenzhen) Limited was de-registered on 8th September 2025.”
- “The process of closing UCLan Lanka (Private) Ltd is continuing”
- “the legal case relating to the ended venture in Thailand.”
- “Uclan (Overseas) Limited changed its name to University of Lancashire Overseas Limited on 8 August 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WINTERS, Fiona | Secretary | 2025-05-01 | — | — |
| BALDWIN, Graham, Professor | Director | 2019-10-25 | Jul 1963 | British |
| CHARLES, George Oliver | Director | 2019-10-25 | Aug 1975 | British |
| CONNOR, Ruth Joanne | Director | 2021-01-13 | Jan 1968 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISHER, Ian Michael | Secretary | 2014-04-25 | 2025-04-30 |
| WOODS, Bernadette Ann Mary | Secretary | 2008-04-30 | 2014-04-24 |
| AHERN, Michael Paul | Director | 2019-07-17 | 2021-01-13 |
| BALDWIN, Graham, Professor | Director | 2011-05-10 | 2014-08-17 |
| BROMLEY, Amanda Elizabeth | Director | 2016-10-20 | 2019-07-31 |
| DUBROW-MARSHALL, Roderick Paul, Professor | Director | 2011-05-10 | 2014-02-17 |
| HEXT, Richard Maurice | Director | 2014-09-30 | 2015-09-30 |
| HYETT, Peter Andrew | Director | 2008-04-30 | 2012-01-31 |
| JONES, Allison Elizabeth, Dr | Director | 2016-02-09 | 2018-11-02 |
| JOUGHIN, John Joseph, Professor | Director | 2010-02-12 | 2010-07-12 |
| LEWIS, Leonard John | Director | 2008-04-30 | 2014-04-30 |
| LIVESEY, Lynne Margaret, Dr | Director | 2019-07-17 | 2021-10-29 |
| MCVICAR, Malcolm Thomas, Dr | Director | 2009-07-02 | 2014-08-31 |
| MURPHY, Angela Mary | Director | 2008-05-20 | 2011-09-01 |
| MURPHY, Rosemary Gai, Professor | Director | 2016-02-09 | 2016-09-09 |
| PHOENIX, David Andrew, Professor | Director | 2008-05-20 | 2013-09-26 |
| POLLARD, Robin John, Professor | Director | 2015-01-27 | 2016-02-03 |
| REID, Deborah Karen | Director | 2012-03-08 | 2015-07-27 |
| ROBERTSON, John Charles | Director | 2011-02-09 | 2014-01-21 |
| ROBSON, Philip John | Director | 2014-03-05 | 2015-06-30 |
| STEELE, Timothy Robert | Director | 2014-07-03 | 2019-05-31 |
| WALTON, Paul | Director | 2014-03-05 | 2015-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centralan Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 130 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-08-08 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2025-08-08 NM06 Change of name request comments
- 2025-08-08 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-15 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-08-08 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-08-08 | NM06 | change-of-name | Change of name request comments | |
| 2025-08-08 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2025-05-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-04-30 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-04 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
-
Turnover
-17.5%
£636,724 £525,169
-
Cash
+5.3%
£1,150,360 £1,210,837
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£1,313,050 £1,313,851
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-70.3%
-£68,347 -£116,381
-
Profit before tax
+1%
£86,819 £87,689
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