BENCHMARK FINANCIAL PLANNING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-15 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BENCHMARK FINANCIAL PLANNING LIMITED 2022-11-07 → present
- ASPECT8 LIMITED 2011-03-21 → 2022-11-07
Accounts
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are satisfied that, at the time of approving the financial statements, there is a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for 12 months from the date the Annual Report and Accounts is signed. For this reason the Directors continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”
Group structure
- BENCHMARK FINANCIAL PLANNING LIMITED · parent
- Advison Limited 100%
- Chilcomb Wealth Ltd 100%
- Kingston Bishop Limited 100%
- McPhersons Walpole Harding (Financial Services) Limited 100%
- Mitchell & Company (IFA) Limited 100%
- Mitchell & Company Holdings (Reigate) Limited 100%
- Regents Park Financial Solutions Ltd 100%
- Wealth Planning Limited 100%
- Champain Financial Services Ltd 100%
- The Workplace Benefits Company Limited 100%
- Mark Cardy Consultancy Ltd 100%
- Vercern Limited 100%
- Oculus Wealth Management (North Dorset) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Board of Directors changes included the appointment of one director and the resignation of two directors in 2024, with a further appointment after year-end.”
- “On 30 July 2025 the Company acquired a Client Bank for total consideration of £362k, with £181k paid in cash upon completion.”
- “On 1 September 2025 the Company acquired a Client Bank for total consideration of £114k, with £57k paid in cash upon completion.”
- “On 3 March 2025 the Company acquired 100% of the share capital of Cusack Financial Management Limited for £159k, with £89k paid in cash upon completion.”
- “On 16 June 2025 the Company acquired 100% of the share capital of Jenkins Financial Planning Limited for total consideration of £1.30m, with £0.67m paid in cash upon completion.”
- “Several subsidiaries (Wealth Planning Limited, Chilcomb Wealth Ltd, McPhersons Walpole Harding (Financial Services) Limited, Mitchell & Company (IFA) Limited, Mitchell & Company Holdings (Reigate) Limited, Regents Park Financial Solutions Ltd) were placed into voluntary liquidation or dissolved in early 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHRODER CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2024-11-29 | — | — |
| DYMOTT, Edward | Director | 2021-11-10 | Jan 1979 | British |
| FITZGERALD, Helen Louise | Director | 2025-02-27 | Jun 1981 | British |
| HARRISON, Wesley Sinclair | Director | 2024-11-28 | Dec 1980 | British |
| SEJPAL, Karan Jitendra | Director | 2025-11-21 | Apr 1980 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARIAS, Michael Andrew | Director | 2014-07-15 | 2021-03-31 |
| COOKE, Ian Robert | Director | 2011-03-22 | 2022-01-13 |
| FITZSIMONS, Craig | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2024-12-16 |
| FRENCH, Joanne Marie Gilroy | Director | 2021-10-01 | 2022-01-31 |
| KAHAN, Barbara | Director | 2011-03-21 | 2011-03-21 |
| LASENBY, James John | Director | 2011-03-22 | 2019-02-12 |
| O'SULLIVAN, Peter Stephen | Director | 2019-05-31 | 2024-12-16 |
| POTTER, Brian Malcolm | Director | 2014-12-05 | 2020-12-21 |
| SARGISSON, Timothy Charles | Director | 2023-08-01 | 2023-11-24 |
| WHITE, David Jason | Director | 2021-09-07 | 2023-10-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benchmark Capital Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 68 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-04-11 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-04-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-04-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-13 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-12-05 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-12-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-12-06 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-11-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 1
- 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
Latest filed period vs the prior one