INSPIRED LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-02 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-19
Watchouts
Cash
£5M
-40.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£65M
0% vs 2023
Employees
734
+4.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£12M
+249.4% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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5 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2025-11-04
- INSPIRED LIMITED 2025-11-04 → present
- INSPIRED PLC 2021-07-08 → 2025-11-04
- INSPIRED ENERGY PLC 2011-11-24 → 2021-07-08
- FINEMORE ENERGY LIMITED 2011-05-19 → 2011-11-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £88,600,000 | £93,800,000 | |
| Operating profit | £17,903,000 | £17,337,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£7,900,000 | £11,800,000 | |
| Net profit | -£7,900,000 | £9,629,000 | |
| Cash | £8,782,000 | £5,186,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £139,874,000 | £146,558,000 | |
| Net assets | £64,827,000 | £64,827,000 | |
| Equity | £64,827,000 | £64,827,000 | |
| Average employees | 702 | 734 | |
| Wages | £36,000,000 | £40,020,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 20.2% | 18.5% | |
| Net margin | -8.9% | 10.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 12.8% | 11.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 64.9% | 64.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.39x | 1.25x | |
| Interest cover | 18.03x | 8.50x |
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
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate because the Group expects to continue in operational existence and has the ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting including a reasonable expectation of continuing to trade for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “In January 2025, the Company raised £21.66m in aggregate (before fees and expenses) through a placing of 54,165,000 New Ordinary Shares and a further £3,125,000 Warrants to institutional and other investors.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GATELEY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2011-10-31 | — | — |
| CONNOR, Paul Anthony | Director | 2014-12-09 | Jun 1984 | British |
| DICKINSON, Mark | Director | 2016-09-29 | Aug 1972 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COCKSHOTT, David Martyn | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2025-10-06 |
| FLANNIGAN, Sarah Elisabeth | Director | 2020-07-28 | 2023-03-01 |
| FLETCHER, Michael James | Director | 2011-05-19 | 2021-06-30 |
| FOREMAN, David Christopher | Director | 2011-06-01 | 2017-10-10 |
| HOLT, Robert | Director | 2011-09-19 | 2016-09-29 |
| LOGAN, Richard Strachan | Director | 2017-03-24 | 2025-06-27 |
| OLIVER, Gordon Richard | Director | 2018-01-29 | 2020-12-31 |
| SHAH, Sangita Vadilal Manilal | Director | 2021-06-30 | 2025-10-06 |
| THORNTON, Janet | Director | 2011-11-28 | 2017-10-10 |
| THORNTON, Matthew Peter | Director | 2011-11-28 | 2019-03-27 |
| TRACEY, Peter James | Director | 2023-03-02 | 2025-10-06 |
| WALKER, Dianne Gillian Davies | Director | 2021-08-04 | 2025-10-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Matthew Peter Thornton | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-03-22 |
| Mrs Janet Thornton | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-10-11 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 213 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-11-04 CERT10 Certificate re registration public limited company to private
- 2025-11-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-11-04 RR02 Reregistration public to private company
- 2025-07-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-07-03 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-11-04 | CERT10 | change-of-name | Certificate re registration public limited company to private | |
| 2025-11-04 | MAR | incorporation | Re registration memorandum articles | |
| 2025-11-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-11-04 | RR02 | change-of-name | Reregistration public to private company | |
| 2025-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-17 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-09-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-29 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-08-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-08-22 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-07-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-07-03 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-06-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 4
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 5
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+5.9%
£88,600,000 £93,800,000
-
Cash
-40.9%
£8,782,000 £5,186,000
-
Net assets
0%
£64,827,000 £64,827,000
-
Employees
+4.6%
702 734
-
Operating profit
-3.2%
£17,903,000 £17,337,000
-
Profit before tax
+249.4%
-£7,900,000 £11,800,000
-
Wages
+11.2%
£36,000,000 £40,020,000
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