BIRA HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-30 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+21.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£4M
-5% vs 2023
Employees
43
-8.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£19K
-159.8% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,194,153 | £23,098,348 | |
| Operating profit | £50,751 | -£70,804 | |
| Profit before tax | £32,077 | -£19,172 | |
| Net profit | £29,703 | -£21,922 | |
| Cash | £989,335 | £1,198,300 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,314,546 | £4,276,594 | |
| Net assets | £4,498,516 | £4,275,344 | |
| Equity | £4,498,516 | £4,275,344 | |
| Average employees | 47 | 43 | |
| Wages | £1,447,575 | £1,443,009 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.2% | -0.3% | |
| Net margin | 0.1% | -0.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.2% | -1.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 45.7% | 47.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.17x | 1.21x | |
| Interest cover | 18.41x | -57.19x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Beever and Struthers
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's or the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- BIRA HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Bira Trading Limited 100%
- Bira Direct Limited 100%
- Bira Publishing Limited 100%
- Oxford Summer School Limited 100%
- British Shops and Stores Association Limited 100%
- BSSA Insurance Brokers Limited 100%
- Mica DIY Limited 100%
- Bolts Mica Limited 100%
- Nibletts Mica Limited 100%
- C 2 Zero Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Having acquired C2Zero Limited which added over a thousand new members to the group, in April 2024 the RETRA group (400 electrical retailers) also joined BIRA. Our recent strategy for growth have been to bring other smaller associations into our group”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARKHAM, Sean | Secretary | 2025-11-07 | — | — |
| COE, William David | Director | 2018-12-13 | May 1969 | British |
| COLES-EVANS, Martin Lawrence | Director | 2024-01-25 | Sep 1971 | British |
| FORRET, Karen | Director | 2024-01-25 | Aug 1979 | Scottish |
| GALE, Nathan Philip | Director | 2024-08-21 | Dec 1975 | British |
| GOODACRE, Andrew John | Director | 2018-10-17 | Aug 1963 | British |
| HUGHES, Michael Andrew | Director | 2018-12-13 | May 1958 | British |
| JONES, Albert John | Director | 2022-01-28 | Oct 1976 | British |
| JOSAN, Surinder Pal Singh | Director | 2018-12-13 | Jan 1965 | British |
| LACHLAN, Christopher Guy | Director | 2024-08-09 | May 1965 | British |
| MOODY, Jeffrey Thomas | Director | 2018-12-13 | Mar 1961 | British |
| SHAH, Jayendra | Director | 2023-05-25 | Jan 1957 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELLWOOD, Kevin | Director | 2018-12-13 | 2020-04-27 |
| LACHLAN, Christopher Guy | Director | 2018-12-13 | 2024-04-15 |
| LEADER, Shirley | Director | 2022-01-28 | 2024-10-17 |
| LEIGH, Claire Louise | Director | 2021-02-19 | 2024-04-15 |
| LONG, Beverley Ann | Director | 2018-10-17 | 2025-11-17 |
| MARSH, Gary Richard | Director | 2022-02-18 | 2023-11-23 |
| MORRIS, John Charles | Director | 2018-12-13 | 2022-01-28 |
| PANKHURST, Ashley Roades | Director | 2023-04-02 | 2024-10-14 |
| PATTERSON, Christopher John | Director | 2018-12-13 | 2025-09-25 |
| PULLEN, Howard John Huntley | Director | 2018-12-13 | 2022-10-04 |
| ROWLATT, Richard David | Director | 2018-12-13 | 2022-10-04 |
| SANGSTER, George Brian | Director | 2018-12-13 | 2022-01-28 |
| STIRLING-BAKER, Hellen Florence Louise | Director | 2022-02-18 | 2023-11-23 |
| VARA, Vinod Karsan | Director | 2018-12-13 | 2019-08-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverley Ann Long | Individual | Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2018-10-17 | Ceased 2019-01-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 60 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-07 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2026-01-06 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2026-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-20 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-08-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-4.5%
£24,194,153 £23,098,348
-
Cash
+21.1%
£989,335 £1,198,300
-
Net assets
-5%
£4,498,516 £4,275,344
-
Employees
-8.5%
47 43
-
Operating profit
-239.5%
£50,751 -£70,804
-
Profit before tax
-159.8%
£32,077 -£19,172
-
Wages
-0.3%
£1,447,575 £1,443,009
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