CREATIVE UK HOLDINGS LIMITED

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  9 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. CREATIVE UK HOLDINGS LIMITED 2020-06-16 → present
2. CREATIVE NATION HOLDINGS LIMITED 2019-12-16 → 2020-06-16
3. CREATIVE ENGLAND HOLDINGS LIMITED 2019-07-16 → 2019-12-16

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Bishop Fleming Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Directors have prepared forecasts which show that the Group will have sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they fall due, and that it will continue to meet its current liabilities covenants for a period of at least twelve months from the date of signing these accounts. These forecasts include expected cash flows and will allow us to identify risks and opportunities and react accordingly. After making enquiries, the directors have reasonable expectation that the Group has access to adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the forseeable future. The Group therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. CREATIVE UK HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
   1. Creative England Limited · UK · develop and promote the creative industries
   2. Creative UK Investments Limited 100% · UK · develop and promote the creative industries
   3. Creative Growth Finance Limited 100% · UK · develop and promote the creative industries
   4. Creative Industries Federation · UK · develop and promote the creative industries
   5. iFeatures Limited · UK · develop and produce high quality low budget films

Significant events

• “The UK General Election in July 2024 set a new direction for the country, the creative industries, and our organisation. Against a backdrop of political and economic change, Creative UK focused on growing our programmes, our profile and our networks responding flexibly to opportunities and challenges created in a difficult fiscal environment.”
• “In summary, Financial Year 24/25 saw the business expand and deepen partnerships with industry and local and regional stakeholders - juggling complex contracts throughout a period of political change and fiscal uncertainty.”
• “Creative UK Group directly invested £5.8m in 41 businesses, with a further £0.5m worth of exits.”
• “CGF gained accreditation for the Growth Guarantee Scheme (GGS) via the British Business Bank (BBB) in the final quarter of the year - de-risking further investments, effectively allowing the fund to explore more investment options.”
• “One of our largest areas of activity is the delivery of the DCMS-sponsored Create Growth Programme (CGP): designed to support creative businesses in exploring and securing commercial investment opportunities. Creative UK now runs CGP in six areas, working with Combined Authorities (CAs) and Local Authorities (LAs) in Cornwall, Devon, West Midlands, North East, West Yorkshire and the South East.”
• “For Creative Enterprise a National Lottery/BFI-funded bespoke set of initiatives for ambitious screen businesses to access connections, training and networks to achieve business growth - 2024/25 saw the launch of two new programmes. Reframe was designed to help screen-based companies explore new models in an ever-changing world, and Screen Launchpad was aimed at underrepresented start-ups.”
• “During this period, over 190 feature films and TV dramas were filmed on location in the English Regions, contributing over £200 million in economic impact.”
• “During this period, the team achieved 20% growth in Partnership membership, reaching a total of 297 members with new members including BAFTA albert, Sharp Futures, Inclusivity Films, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Sky Studios Elstree, ERIC, The British Film Designers Guild, and The Wonderworks, among many others.”
• “We also were delighted to launch the West Midlands IP fund which launched and delivered £200k direct funding awards to SMEs in the WMCA region, with twelve awards to a mixture of factual and fiction projects.”
• “In January, we launched a new campaign - Create Diversity. With around 40 case studies, this campaign is a hub of ideas, learning and inspiration that aims to encourage organisations across the creative and cultural sector, of all sizes and types, to embark on or deepen their own equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) journey.”
• “Creative UK is proud to represent the breadth of the Creative Industries and in this financial year, our membership grew. We welcomed 107 new members.”
• “In April, we published our Manifesto - Our Creative Future - which outlined the key policy areas we would want any future UK Government to address from more investment in businesses to better support for creative education.”
• “Our engagement with the new UK Government has been energetic and consistent. One of the biggest examples of this was our activity at the Labour Party Conference in September. In partnership with 40 of our members, we launched the first ever UK Cultural and Creative Industries Pavilion.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

15

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

4

last 12 months

Officers resigned

9

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +49.1%

  £5,219,978 → £7,784,858

• Cash

  +1.3%

  £5,708,599 → £5,785,305

• Net assets

  -23.8%

  £418,921 → £319,090

• Employees

  +22.4%

  67 → 82

• Operating profit

  +18.7%

  -£1,596,491 → -£1,297,790

• Profit before tax

  +74.9%

  -£342,153 → -£86,021

• Wages

  +8.7%

  £2,914,070 → £3,168,091

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