FOCAL VENTURES LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-25 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-04-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£25K
+198.8% vs 2019
Net assets
-£472K
-55.3% vs 2019
Employees
7
0% vs 2019
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2020-12-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- FOCAL VENTURES LTD 2018-05-03 → present
- STANDOAK LIMITED 2018-01-29 → 2018-05-03
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2020-12-31
Latest accounts filed cover 2024-12-31; financial figures currently reflect up to 2020-12-31.
| Metric | Trend | 2019-12-31 | 2020-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£411,843 | -£168,072 | |
| Cash | £8,529 | £25,486 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,062,953 | £921,551 | |
| Net assets | -£303,794 | -£471,866 | |
| Equity | — | -£471,866 | |
| Average employees | 7 | 7 | |
| Wages | £141,560 | £76,697 |
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
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors are confident that we will remain profitable were volumes to decline. ... As such, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- FOCAL VENTURES LTD · parent
- FocalAgent Limited 100%
- KeyAgent Limited 100%
Significant events
- “redeemed the remaining preference shares in 2024 to reduce our future interest burden”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEIER, Karl Laurence | Secretary | 2021-12-23 | — | — |
| BELL, Graham Richard | Director | 2019-05-01 | Sep 1974 | British |
| CLARIDGE, Thomas Olivier | Director | 2018-04-30 | Feb 1985 | British |
| CORFIELD, Graham John | Director | 2023-04-01 | Apr 1969 | British |
| FOLWELL, Stephen Thomas | Director | 2023-10-01 | Feb 1976 | British |
| GATES, Matthew Ashleigh Jonathan | Director | 2018-04-30 | Mar 1975 | British |
| GROENEWOLD, Rolf Gert | Director | 2018-04-30 | Aug 1985 | Dutch |
| HALLSWORTH, Jeremy Giles | Director | 2018-04-30 | May 1961 | British |
| MEIER, Karl | Director | 2021-04-06 | Oct 1966 | British |
| QUINEY, Benjamin Alan | Director | 2018-04-30 | Jan 1979 | British |
| WAINWRIGHT, Lee | Director | 2020-12-01 | Jul 1972 | British |
| WRIGHT, Timothy Sebastian | Director | 2018-04-30 | Sep 1985 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTEIRO, Nichole | Secretary | 2021-01-01 | 2021-12-23 |
| DINES, Christopher John | Director | 2019-05-01 | 2023-09-01 |
| JOHN, Ceri Richard | Director | 2018-01-29 | 2018-04-30 |
| REYNOLDS, David Jonathan | Director | 2020-12-01 | 2021-03-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 72 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-05 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-04-18 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-04-14 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-23 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-05 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-05 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-10-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-06 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares redemption statement of capital | |
| 2023-10-18 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares redemption statement of capital | |
| 2023-10-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-14 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 1
- 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
FY2019 → FY2020 · period ending 2020-12-31 vs 2019-12-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+198.8%
£8,529 £25,486
-
Net assets
-55.3%
-£303,794 -£471,866
-
Employees
0%
7 7
-
Wages
-45.8%
£141,560 £76,697
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