PLAYGROUND TELEVISION UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-24 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
+21.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£6M
+36.9% vs 2024
Employees
130
+19.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3M
+562% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- PLAYGROUND TELEVISION UK LIMITED 2013-03-22 → present
- PLAYGROUND BRANDING UK LIMITED 2011-07-13 → 2013-03-22
- CROSSCO (1241) LIMITED 2011-05-11 → 2011-07-13
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £23,722,097 | £41,173,160 | |
| Operating profit | £496,158 | £3,315,167 | |
| Profit before tax | £503,002 | £3,330,040 | |
| Net profit | £503,002 | £1,699,460 | |
| Cash | £3,729,509 | £4,523,458 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,455,334 | £15,014,794 | |
| Net assets | £4,605,334 | £6,304,794 | |
| Equity | £4,605,334 | £6,304,794 | |
| Average employees | 109 | 130 | |
| Wages | £3,745,770 | £4,519,244 |
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.1% | 8.1% | |
| Net margin | 2.1% | 4.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.7% | 22.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 72.0% | 75.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.64x | 2.44x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Ecovis Wingrave Yeats LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group's or the parent Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- PLAYGROUND TELEVISION UK LIMITED · parent
- Playground Television UK (Little Women) Limited 100%
- Playground Television UK (Gypsy) Limited 100%
- Playground Television UK (Scripts) Limited 100%
- Playground Television UK (TUW) Limited 100%
- Playground Television UK (ACGAS) Limited 100%
- Playground Television UK (Liaisons) Limited 100%
- Playground Television UK (ACGAS4) Limited 100%
- Playground Television UK (Liaisons2) Limited 100%
- Playground Television UK (ACGAS5) Ltd 100%
- Playground Television UK (TUW2) Ltd 100%
- Playground Television UK (WH2) Ltd 100%
- Playground Television UK (ACGAS6) Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “Post year end, the Company entered into a fifth loan in February 2025 for a total of up to £5,200,000, and a total of £2,100,000 has been drawn down after the year end. Interest accrues on the loan at a market rate of interest. The loan is due for repayment no later than April 2026. The loan is secured by fixed and floating charges against the Company, and its subsidiary Playground Television UK (ACGAS6) Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, Joanne Marie | Secretary | 2019-06-01 | — | — |
| BUCKLEY, Mary Noelette | Director | 2016-10-20 | Dec 1967 | Irish |
| CALLENDER, Colin Nigel, Sir | Director | 2011-07-25 | May 1952 | British |
| CORNER, Christine Elizabeth | Director | 2017-06-01 | Apr 1960 | British |
| LEON, Daniel Frank | Director | 2018-04-17 | Dec 1971 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICOLSON, Sean Torquil | Director | 2011-05-11 | 2011-07-25 |
| PEDERSEN, Louise Ann | Director | 2015-03-02 | 2016-07-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Colin Callender | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 90 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-10-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-07 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-06-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-13 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-02-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-08-21 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-05-23 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-13 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-02-06 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-11-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-10-30 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares subdivision | |
| 2023-10-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-04 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-10-04 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2023-10-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
+73.6%
£23,722,097 £41,173,160
-
Cash
+21.3%
£3,729,509 £4,523,458
-
Net assets
+36.9%
£4,605,334 £6,304,794
-
Employees
+19.3%
109 130
-
Operating profit
+568.2%
£496,158 £3,315,167
-
Profit before tax
+562%
£503,002 £3,330,040
-
Wages
+20.6%
£3,745,770 £4,519,244
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