COVER GENIUS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-03 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+105.8% vs 2020
Net assets
£668K
-51.1% vs 2020
Employees
21
+5% vs 2020
Profit before tax
-£825K
-395.9% vs 2020
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2021-06-30
Latest accounts filed cover 2024-06-30; financial figures currently reflect up to 2021-06-30.
| Metric | Trend | 2020-06-30 | 2021-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £2,548,255 | £1,561,986 | |
| Operating profit | -£147,200 | -£798,319 | |
| Profit before tax | -£166,453 | -£825,408 | |
| Net profit | — | — | |
| Cash | £1,058,740 | £2,178,912 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,381,607 | £2,667,552 | |
| Net assets | £1,365,253 | £667,552 | |
| Equity | £1,365,253 | £667,552 | |
| Average employees | 20 | 21 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 2020-06-30 | 2021-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -5.8% | -51.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -10.7% | -29.9% | |
| Interest cover | -7.65x | -29.47x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have assessed the Company's ability to continue as a going concern and has a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements.”
Group structure
- COVER GENIUS LIMITED · parent
- Cover Genius Holdings Pty Ltd
Significant events
- “On the 20 August 2024 a charge was registered by HSBC Ventures USA Inc. over the Company. The charge included fixed charges, floating charges, negative pledge clauses and is held over the assets of the Company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSC CLS (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2025-08-27 | — | — |
| CLARKE, Ella Mary | Director | 2025-09-01 | Apr 1991 | British,Australian |
| RITTINGER, Darcy | Director | 2025-02-07 | Mar 1979 | American |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEAN, Graeme John | Secretary | 2015-01-27 | 2024-08-30 |
| SUTCLIFFE, Anthony | Secretary | 2016-03-16 | 2019-09-30 |
| CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2024-08-30 | 2025-08-27 |
| BAYLEY, Chris Robert | Director | 2016-02-01 | 2016-02-22 |
| BAYLEY, Chris Robert | Director | 2015-04-15 | 2015-06-01 |
| BAYLEY, Chris Robert | Director | 2015-01-27 | 2015-03-10 |
| BAYLEY, Christopher Robert | Director | 2019-09-30 | 2023-12-31 |
| BOND, David Alan | Director | 2015-03-10 | 2017-03-01 |
| DEAN, Graeme John | Director | 2015-01-27 | 2025-02-07 |
| MCDONALD, Angus James Ridley | Director | 2019-09-30 | 2025-02-07 |
| SUTCLIFFE, Anthony Joel | Director | 2019-10-15 | 2020-05-12 |
| SUTCLIFFE, Anthony | Director | 2019-09-30 | 2019-10-15 |
| SUTCLIFFE, Anthony | Director | 2016-03-17 | 2019-09-30 |
| SUTCLIFFE, Anthony | Director | 2016-03-16 | 2016-03-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Chrisopher Robert Bayley | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-03-02 |
| Mr Angus James Mcdonald | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-03-02 |
| Mrs Lee Vouch Sar | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-03-02 |
| Cover Genius Holdings Pty Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-03-02 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 87 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-22 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-09-22 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-22 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-09-17 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-09-17 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-08-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-08-11 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-08-10 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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
FY2020 → FY2021 · period ending 2021-06-30 vs 2020-06-30
-
Turnover
-38.7%
£2,548,255 £1,561,986
-
Cash
+105.8%
£1,058,740 £2,178,912
-
Net assets
-51.1%
£1,365,253 £667,552
-
Employees
+5%
20 21
-
Operating profit
-442.3%
-£147,200 -£798,319
-
Profit before tax
-395.9%
-£166,453 -£825,408
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers