WORCESTERSHIRE CHILDREN FIRST
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-17 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-03
Watchouts
Cash
£4M
-61.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£1M
0% vs 2024
Employees
947
-3.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1
0% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The accounts have been prepared on a break-up basis on the assumption that WCF will have no contract income or expenditure in 2025/26. It is anticipated that the Company will be fully closed down during 2025/26 and that there will be no further financial statements.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WORCESTERSHIRE CHILDREN FIRST 2018-10-04 → present
- WORCESTERSHIRE CHILDREN FIRST LIMITED 2018-07-04 → 2018-10-04
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £148,270,608 | £74,045,671 | |
| Operating profit | -£893,229 | -£113,446 | |
| Profit before tax | £1 | £1 | |
| Net profit | £1 | £1 | |
| Cash | £10,873,327 | £4,189,481 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £1,139,728 | £1,139,728 | |
| Equity | £1,139,728 | £1,139,728 | |
| Average employees | 982 | 947 | |
| Wages | £33,209,045 | £16,723,236 |
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 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -0.6% | -0.2% | |
| Net margin | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.07x | 1.14x |
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
- Grant Thornton LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The accounts have been prepared on a break-up basis on the assumption that WCF will have no contract income or expenditure in 2025/26. It is anticipated that the Company will be fully closed down during 2025/26 and that there will be no further financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIRD, Christopher Paul | Secretary | 2023-07-01 | — | — |
| BIRD, Christopher Paul | Director | 2023-07-01 | Jul 1982 | British |
| JOHNSTON, Adam | Director | 2021-10-01 | May 1971 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROOK, Philip John | Secretary | 2019-07-19 | 2023-06-30 |
| BARNETT, Melanie Samantha | Director | 2022-06-06 | 2024-07-31 |
| BRITTAIN, Emma | Director | 2021-10-01 | 2024-09-30 |
| BURGESS, Claire Miriam | Director | 2019-06-10 | 2024-09-30 |
| CARSON, Daniela | Director | 2024-08-01 | 2024-09-30 |
| CHAMBERS, David Ian Reginald | Director | 2024-05-31 | 2024-09-30 |
| DRISCOLL, Catherine Ann, Dr | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2021-02-21 |
| HART, Marcus John | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2024-09-30 |
| MALLINSON, Simon | Director | 2018-07-04 | 2019-07-18 |
| MAY, Karen Jane | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2022-08-02 |
| MORRISON, Robin Peter | Director | 2019-05-01 | 2024-09-30 |
| MOSS, Gareth Brian | Director | 2019-06-10 | 2024-09-30 |
| ONSLOW-FAGE, Tracey Lee | Director | 2022-08-03 | 2024-05-31 |
| ROOK, Philip John | Director | 2019-06-26 | 2023-06-30 |
| RUSSELL, Tina Louise | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2024-06-30 |
| SPICE, Andrew James | Director | 2019-07-15 | 2024-06-30 |
| TAYLOR, Sarah Anne | Director | 2019-06-10 | 2024-09-30 |
| WILKINS, Sarah Anne | Director | 2019-06-01 | 2024-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worcestershire County Council | Legal person | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2018-07-04 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 67 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-10-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-10-04 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-10-04 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
-50.1%
£148,270,608 £74,045,671
-
Cash
-61.5%
£10,873,327 £4,189,481
-
Net assets
0%
£1,139,728 £1,139,728
-
Employees
-3.6%
982 947
-
Operating profit
+87.3%
-£893,229 -£113,446
-
Profit before tax
0%
£1 £1
-
Wages
-49.6%
£33,209,045 £16,723,236
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