ILIKA PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-26 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
+2.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£17M
-15.6% vs 2024
Employees
70
+2.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£7M
-25.2% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £2,090,600 | £1,052,900 | |
| Operating profit | -£7,780,900 | -£8,087,600 | |
| Profit before tax | -£5,765,800 | -£7,217,000 | |
| Net profit | -£4,813,400 | -£5,902,200 | |
| Cash | £7,764,400 | £7,978,100 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £20,945,700 | £17,683,400 | |
| Net assets | £20,359,000 | £17,179,500 | |
| Equity | £20,359,000 | £17,179,500 | |
| Average employees | 68 | 70 | |
| Wages | £3,548,700 | £3,519,200 |
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -372.2% | -768.1% | |
| Net margin | -230.2% | -560.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | -37.1% | -45.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 10.8% | 11.7% | |
| Current ratio | 9.93x | 7.87x | |
| Interest cover | -235.78x | -170.27x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have prepared and reviewed financial forecasts. After due consideration of these forecasts, current cash resources, and the recently completed fund raise of £4.2m gross of fees, the Directors consider that the Company and the Group have adequate financial resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future (being a period of at least 12 months from the date of this report), and for this reason the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- ILIKA PLC · parent
- Ilika Technologies Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “Ilika has entered into a 10-year agreement for Cirtec Medical LLC to manufacture Stereax under license.”
- “Successful £4.2 million (gross) fundraising in May 2025 to support the Goliath roadmap and Stereax commercialisation.”
- “Award of £1.25m of grant funding from DRIVE35 programme.”
- “On 15 July 2025 the Group announced that it had been awarded further grant funding. This support is being provided from the newly launched Demonstrate fund... Ilika will receive £1.25 million in grant funding commencing 1 August 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PETITT, Mandy Caroline | Secretary | 2022-07-13 | — | — |
| BIDDULPH, Monika, Dr | Director | 2019-09-26 | Oct 1966 | British |
| JACKSON, Keith, Professor | Director | 2014-11-01 | Aug 1960 | British |
| MILLARD, Jeremy Howard | Director | 2018-10-01 | Jun 1971 | British |
| PURDY, Graeme | Director | 2010-03-12 | Sep 1965 | British |
| STEWART, Jason Robert Fredrick | Director | 2023-01-03 | Jun 1978 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYDELL, Stephen | Secretary | 2010-03-12 | 2022-07-13 |
| BOYDELL, Stephen John | Director | 2010-03-12 | 2022-07-15 |
| BOYER, Jack Byron | Director | 2010-03-12 | 2015-09-30 |
| BRAUN, Werner, Dr | Director | 2010-05-05 | 2013-06-30 |
| HAYDEN, Brian Elliott, Professor | Director | 2010-05-05 | 2021-09-22 |
| INGLIS, Michael James | Director | 2015-07-09 | 2019-01-01 |
| SPOTTISWOODE, Clare | Director | 2010-05-05 | 2019-09-30 |
| WAKEHAM, William Arnot, Sir | Director | 2010-05-05 | 2018-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 109 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-10-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-10-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-10-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-10-07 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-19 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-03-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-04 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-10-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-07 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-03-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-18 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-07-28 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares reconversion | |
| 2023-06-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-04-28 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-03-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 4
- 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 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
-49.6%
£2,090,600 £1,052,900
-
Cash
+2.8%
£7,764,400 £7,978,100
-
Net assets
-15.6%
£20,359,000 £17,179,500
-
Employees
+2.9%
68 70
-
Operating profit
-3.9%
-£7,780,900 -£8,087,600
-
Profit before tax
-25.2%
-£5,765,800 -£7,217,000
-
Wages
-0.8%
£3,548,700 £3,519,200
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