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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-01 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-17
Watchouts
Cash
£74K
-69.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£63K
-62.8% vs 2024
Employees
4
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£106K
+9.6% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
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 | £8,375 | £16,833 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£116,719 | -£105,535 | |
| Net profit | -£116,719 | -£105,535 | |
| Cash | £242,439 | £74,438 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £168,072 | £62,537 | |
| Net assets | £168,072 | £62,537 | |
| Equity | £168,072 | £62,537 | |
| Average employees | 4 | 4 | |
| Wages | £193,093 | £199,265 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -1393.7% | -627.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 34.9% | 23.3% | |
| Current ratio | 2.84x | 4.23x |
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 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Melvin Bailey FCCA DchA For and on behalf of Rogers Spencer Chartered Accountants
- Audit opinion
- Unaudited (audit-exempt)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, additional funding has been obtained to ensure the charity has sufficient unrestricted reserves to meet its ongoing requirements for the foreseeable future. The Trustees have identified no other material uncertainties that cast doubt on the Charity's ability to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and the Trustees therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) received royal assent on 24 May 2024.”
- “In April 2025, we refined our mission to focus on local news.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADETUNJI, Joan Hannah Oluwayemisi | Director | 2019-11-18 | Oct 1980 | British |
| CURTIS, Polly Elizabeth | Director | 2022-03-16 | Apr 1977 | British |
| GOW, Alison Sarah | Director | 2023-07-28 | Feb 1971 | British |
| ROUGHOL, Isabelle | Director | 2020-04-01 | Apr 1984 | French |
| WEINBERG, Julius Rolf, Dr | Director | 2020-06-12 | Dec 1954 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLETCHER VANE, William Richard, Lord Inglewood | Director | 2019-11-18 | 2024-12-03 |
| LLOYD, Simon Trevor | Director | 2024-06-26 | 2025-10-05 |
| SCORER, Richard | Director | 2024-06-26 | 2025-10-10 |
| SWAFFER, Patrick Leslie James | Director | 2019-11-18 | 2025-03-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Julius Rolf Weinberg | Individual | Significant influence | 2020-06-12 | Active |
| Ms Isabelle Roughol | Individual | Significant influence | 2020-04-01 | Active |
| Mr Patrick Leslie James Swaffer | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-11-18 | Ceased 2025-03-25 |
| Lord Inglewood William Richard Fletcher Vane | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-11-18 | Ceased 2024-12-03 |
| Ms Joan Hannah Oluwayemisi Adetunji | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-11-18 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 34 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2024-12-12 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2023-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2022-12-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2022-01-28 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
+101%
£8,375 £16,833
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Cash
-69.3%
£242,439 £74,438
-
Net assets
-62.8%
£168,072 £62,537
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Employees
0%
4 4
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Profit before tax
+9.6%
-£116,719 -£105,535
-
Wages
+3.2%
£193,093 £199,265
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