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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-22 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£12M
-17.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£11M
+2.6% vs 2023
Employees
53
+32.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
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 | £21,894,000 | £23,802,000 | |
| Operating profit | £5,440,000 | £278,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £5,440,000 | £278,000 | |
| Cash | £14,114,000 | £11,635,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,541,000 | £10,819,000 | |
| Net assets | £10,541,000 | £10,819,000 | |
| Equity | £10,541,000 | £10,819,000 | |
| Average employees | 40 | 53 | |
| Wages | £2,323,000 | £2,881,000 |
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 | 24.8% | 1.2% | |
| Net margin | 24.8% | 1.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 51.6% | 2.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.93x | 6.39x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Start Network Board of Trustees has reviewed its financial position, budget for 2025, forecasts, income projections, and current reserves/cash levels. Management undertook scenario analysis and stress testing key assumptions, supporting the Trustees' position that the Charity has sufficient resources to remain operational for at least the next twelve months from this report date. Thus, Trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “After the balance sheet date on 26 February 2025, Start Network received formal notification of the termination of two grant agreements funded by USAID, both of which commenced in 2024. The total value of the grants was $2,495,046... These terminations were part of broader USAID funding cuts and programme closures across a wide range of international programmes.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DESAI, Dhara | Secretary | 2024-06-03 | — | — |
| AMAD, Muhammad | Director | 2021-03-25 | May 1977 | Pakistani |
| DAAR, Aydrus Sheikh | Director | 2025-05-22 | Dec 1958 | Kenyan |
| FARID, Jamshaid | Director | 2025-05-22 | Nov 1979 | Pakistani |
| IQBAL, Anwer | Director | 2020-07-22 | Jan 1972 | Pakistani |
| JIAL, Angelina Nyajima Simon | Director | 2025-05-22 | Dec 1985 | South Sudanese |
| NTUBUBA, Salome Mulangala | Director | 2025-02-10 | Jul 1972 | Congolese (Drc) |
| RAFIQ, Mohammad Iqbal, Mr. | Director | 2025-01-29 | Dec 1989 | Afghan |
| SPENCE, Malcolm David | Director | 2022-10-31 | Feb 1983 | British |
| SRIKANTHAN, Sanjayan | Director | 2021-06-07 | Jun 1980 | British |
| STOPPIELLO, Giovanni | Director | 2026-02-19 | Oct 1971 | British |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATHIANAKI, Antigoni Konstantina | Secretary | 2018-11-30 | 2023-10-17 |
| NWEZE, Onyeka | Secretary | 2023-10-30 | 2024-01-03 |
| DENTONS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2016-06-23 | 2018-11-30 |
| AHMAD, Raja Waseem | Director | 2019-05-29 | 2022-02-01 |
| AL ZAROONI, Shaima | Director | 2015-05-06 | 2021-05-19 |
| ALI, Degan Abdurahman | Director | 2018-11-30 | 2020-09-10 |
| ASTRUC, Paul Jacques Sylvain | Director | 2019-09-20 | 2021-04-22 |
| BROYD, Richard Charles | Director | 2015-07-14 | 2019-04-30 |
| CARTER, Matthew James | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2018-11-30 |
| CHADBURN, Oenone Kate | Director | 2021-03-19 | 2024-04-30 |
| GIRAUD, Alexandre Michel Alain | Director | 2019-05-29 | 2020-09-10 |
| GOSTELOW, Lola | Director | 2015-05-06 | 2021-07-01 |
| GUERRERO, Saul | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2017-11-24 |
| GUMBO, Noreen Mcgrath | Director | 2019-05-29 | 2025-04-08 |
| GUTTMANN, Nicholas Mark | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2017-07-21 |
| ISHERWOOD, Robert Glyn | Director | 2021-10-08 | 2026-03-25 |
| KASSIN, Benjamin Laniado | Director | 2017-07-21 | 2023-06-30 |
| KUMAR, Pankaj | Director | 2023-11-30 | 2025-02-26 |
| MAETZE-ENGELHARDT, Christof Gabriel | Director | 2018-11-30 | 2021-03-31 |
| MUHAREB, Samar Sami Mohammad | Director | 2017-07-21 | 2019-04-01 |
| NADEEM, Mohammed | Director | 2021-06-07 | 2025-04-06 |
| NOONE, Kevin | Director | 2017-07-21 | 2019-10-31 |
| PRABHAKAR, Binny | Director | 2019-05-29 | 2025-01-08 |
| RIFAI, Rahaf | Director | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-26 |
| RUXTON, Robert William | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2021-04-22 |
| SHIVJI, Aleema | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2019-03-14 |
| SMITH LOMAS, Martin Paul | Director | 2015-05-06 | 2017-07-21 |
| TIMMINS, Nigel Stuart | Director | 2014-10-29 | 2017-07-21 |
| WAHNBAECK, Till, Dr | Director | 2017-07-21 | 2018-09-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 105 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-07-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-03 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-07-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-01-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-11-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-
Turnover
+8.7%
£21,894,000 £23,802,000
-
Cash
-17.6%
£14,114,000 £11,635,000
-
Net assets
+2.6%
£10,541,000 £10,819,000
-
Employees
+32.5%
40 53
-
Operating profit
-94.9%
£5,440,000 £278,000
-
Wages
+24%
£2,323,000 £2,881,000
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