COGNUS LIMITED

1. COGNUS LIMITED 2017-09-19 → present
2. SUTTON EDUCATION SERVICES LTD 2016-07-13 → 2017-09-19

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

HaysMac LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Directors ... have concluded that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and there are no material uncertainties about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. COGNUS LIMITED · parent
   1. Sutton Music Trust 100% · England and Wales · to advance the education of children and young people up to age 25 by the provision of music education, resources and opportunities to view performances of music and other arts in the London Borough of Sutton and the surrounding areas; and, the relief of those in need by reason of youth, ill-health, disability, financial or other social disadvantage by the provision of music therapy services in the London Borough of Sutton and the surrounding areas.

Significant events

• “On 1st April 2024, the Music Service evolved into a subsidiary charity of Cognus called Sutton Music Trust.”
• “Cognus has extended its contract with the London Borough of Sutton for providing services in line with which the company already provides. The contract starts on 1st November 2024 for 5 years.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +9.2%

  £12,825,573 → £13,999,938

• Cash

  -41.2%

  £2,728,749 → £1,605,465

• Net assets

  -70.9%

  £2,564,920 → £747,284

• Employees

  +1.3%

  232 → 235

• Operating profit

  -90.1%

  -£239,749 → -£455,790

• Profit before tax

  -58.5%

  -£242,051 → -£383,636

• Wages

  +10.4%

  £8,043,238 → £8,879,848

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