ESCAPADE BIDCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-28 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£357
-60.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£88M
+0.2% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£2K
-89.3% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £132,238 | £0 | |
| Operating profit | £22,040 | -£5,940 | |
| Profit before tax | £22,040 | £2,356 | |
| Net profit | £29,242 | £2,356 | |
| Cash | £897 | £357 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £87,674,095 | £87,814,045 | |
| Equity | £87,674,095 | £87,814,045 | |
| Average employees | 2 | — | |
| Wages | £104,309 | — |
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 | 16.7% | — | |
| Net margin | 22.1% | — | |
| Current ratio | 1.11x | 2.23x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operation for at least twelve months from the date of this report. Accordingly, the Company continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements (see note 1).”
Group structure
- ESCAPADE BIDCO LIMITED · parent
- Plimsoll Productions Limited 100%
- Year on Earth Productions Ltd (*) 100%
- Titan Productions Ltd (*) 100%
- Magnify Content Media Ltd (*) 100%
- Plimsoll International Ltd (*) 100%
- Plimsoll Productions USA, Inc. (*) 100%
- Yellow Productions USA, Inc. (*) 100%
- PP More Production Limited (*) 100%
- PP Shandan Productions Limited (*) 100%
- PP Brunel Productions Limited (*) 100%
Significant events
- “A Jain (resigned 31 August 2025)”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BELLAMY, Julian Christopher | Director | 2022-07-01 | Dec 1970 | British |
| BETTS, Thomas Matthew | Director | 2022-07-01 | Nov 1964 | British |
| JACKSON, Jonathan Christopher | Director | 2019-08-08 | Feb 1971 | British |
| MANSFIELD, Grant Thomas Hugh | Director | 2019-07-15 | Apr 1958 | British |
| MCGRAYNOR, David Philip | Director | 2022-07-01 | Jun 1972 | Irish |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROVE, Andrew John | Director | 2019-08-09 | 2022-07-01 |
| HUGHES, Dewi Aled | Director | 2020-02-04 | 2022-07-01 |
| ITKIN, Mark Allen | Director | 2020-09-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| JAIN, Angela | Director | 2022-07-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| LYNDON, Andrew Steven | Director | 2019-08-09 | 2020-02-04 |
| OWEN, Christine Elizabeth | Director | 2019-08-08 | 2022-03-31 |
| SELLERS, Patrick Elborough | Director | 2019-08-08 | 2022-07-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Itv Studios Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-07-01 | Active |
| Ldc Viii Lp | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2019-08-09 | Ceased 2022-07-01 |
| Mr Grant Thomas Hugh Mansfield | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-07-15 | Ceased 2022-07-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 75 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-07-25 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-07-25 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-01-09 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-01-09 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-26 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-07-26 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-07-26 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-07-26 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-07-26 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-07-25 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-25 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-04-08 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2023-10-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-03-23 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous extended | |
| 2023-03-21 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 7
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-100%
£132,238 £0
-
Cash
-60.2%
£897 £357
-
Net assets
+0.2%
£87,674,095 £87,814,045
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-127%
£22,040 -£5,940
-
Profit before tax
-89.3%
£22,040 £2,356
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