URBAN MYTH FILMS LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-04 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-02-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£382K
+73% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
-16.8% vs 2023
Employees
7
-22.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£2M
+71.7% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £42,308,166 | £9,094,829 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,709,421 | -£1,928,154 | |
| Profit before tax | -£6,673,608 | -£1,890,272 | |
| Net profit | £1,674,837 | -£576,633 | |
| Cash | £221,079 | £382,390 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,440,056 | £2,863,423 | |
| Net assets | £3,440,056 | £2,863,423 | |
| Equity | £3,440,056 | £2,863,423 | |
| Average employees | 9 | 7 | |
| Wages | £789,504 | £788,328 |
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 | -15.9% | -21.2% | |
| Net margin | 4.0% | -6.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | -195.0% | -67.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 90.4% | 90.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.08x | 1.08x |
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
- Moore Kingston Smith LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have assessed going concern, expecting the business to generate adequate cash flows and have sufficient cash, cash equivalents and investments to meet liquidity and capital requirements for the foreseeable future, thus adopting the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”
Group structure
- URBAN MYTH FILMS LTD · parent
- Urban Myth Films (The One) Ltd 100%
- Urban Myth Films (WOTW) Ltd 100%
- Urban Myth Films (Bristol) Ltd 100%
- Urban Myth Films (West) Ltd 100%
- WOTW2 Ltd 100%
- UMF Extinction Ltd 100%
- UMF Warehouse Ltd 100%
- UMF Production Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “The company has reported a significant loss for the current period; however, this is attributable solely to the disposal of long-vacant warehouse space.”
- “Excluding this one-off impact, the decrease in trading performance is merely timing differences as a result of the production schedule.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPPS, John Edward | Director | 2013-02-18 | Jun 1966 | British |
| MARSH, Anna Louise | Director | 2021-03-01 | Apr 1979 | New Zealander |
| MURPHY, Julian Francis Paul | Director | 2013-02-18 | Oct 1964 | British |
| OVERMAN, Howard John | Director | 2013-02-18 | Jul 1972 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESSI, Romain Maurice Louis | Director | 2016-05-19 | 2016-09-30 |
| LUPFER, Didier | Director | 2016-09-30 | 2021-03-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vivendi Se | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75% | 2021-03-01 | Active |
| John Edward Capps | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-03-01 |
| Julian Murphy | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-03-01 |
| Howard John Overman | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-03-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 64 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-03-18 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-03-18 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-20 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-23 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-02-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-04-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-03-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2021-03-18 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-03-18 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-03-10 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2021-03-10 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2021-03-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-03-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-03-02 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-78.5%
£42,308,166 £9,094,829
-
Cash
+73%
£221,079 £382,390
-
Net assets
-16.8%
£3,440,056 £2,863,423
-
Employees
-22.2%
9 7
-
Operating profit
+71.3%
-£6,709,421 -£1,928,154
-
Profit before tax
+71.7%
-£6,673,608 -£1,890,272
-
Wages
-0.1%
£789,504 £788,328
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