ILIFFE MEDIA PUBLISHING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-23 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£94K
+40.1% vs 2024
Net assets
-£571K
-616.3% vs 2024
Employees
79
-14.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£782K
-74.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ILIFFE MEDIA PUBLISHING LIMITED 2017-02-09 → present
- JOHNSTON PUBLISHING EAST ANGLIA LTD 2016-12-12 → 2017-02-09
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £5,877,527 | £5,226,169 | |
| Operating profit | -£712,088 | -£812,488 | |
| Profit before tax | -£447,144 | -£781,593 | |
| Net profit | -£382,649 | -£681,301 | |
| Cash | £66,870 | £93,693 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £110,547 | -£570,754 | |
| Net assets | £110,547 | -£570,754 | |
| Equity | £110,547 | -£570,754 | |
| Average employees | 92 | 79 | |
| Wages | £3,366,278 | £3,091,935 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -12.1% | -15.5% | |
| Net margin | -6.5% | -13.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -644.1% | 142.4% | |
| Current ratio | 0.40x | 0.39x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which assumes the Company will continue trading for the foreseeable future, being a period of not less than 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. The directors of Iliffe Media Publishing Limited are therefore satisfied that the Company can meet its liabilities as they fall due and thus the Company continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- ILIFFE MEDIA PUBLISHING LIMITED · parent
- Cherryholt Holdings Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Company completed a major restructuring initiative in 2024, with the objective of reducing staff costs to offset the continued impact from the economic pressure on revenues, and the increase in national insurance costs.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHEPHERD, William | Secretary | 2025-08-01 | — | — |
| ALLAN, Ricky | Director | 2019-11-14 | Aug 1968 | British |
| FORDHAM, David Sidney | Director | 2023-01-03 | Jun 1953 | British |
| ILIFFE, Edward Richard, The Honourable | Director | 2017-01-17 | Sep 1968 | British |
| SHEPHERD, William | Director | 2019-11-14 | Dec 1973 | British |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, Duncan James | Secretary | 2019-04-18 | 2025-08-01 |
| MCCALL, Peter Michael | Secretary | 2016-12-12 | 2017-01-17 |
| HIGHFIELD, Ashley Gilroy Mark | Director | 2016-12-12 | 2017-01-17 |
| KING, David John | Director | 2016-12-12 | 2017-01-17 |
| SADLER, Stephen Paul | Director | 2017-01-17 | 2019-05-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Honourable Edward Richard Iliffe | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2017-12-14 | Active |
| Johnston Publishing Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-12-12 | Ceased 2017-12-14 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 40 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-05 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-08-04 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-02-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-04-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-01-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-01-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2019-11-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-11-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-05-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-30 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-11.1%
£5,877,527 £5,226,169
-
Cash
+40.1%
£66,870 £93,693
-
Net assets
-616.3%
£110,547 -£570,754
-
Employees
-14.1%
92 79
-
Operating profit
-14.1%
-£712,088 -£812,488
-
Profit before tax
-74.8%
-£447,144 -£781,593
-
Wages
-8.1%
£3,366,278 £3,091,935
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