MACAULAY CAPITAL PLC
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-26 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£672K
-32.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£2M
-19.9% vs 2024
Employees
4
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£425K
+15.1% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £277,447 | £283,496 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£500,474 | -£425,089 | |
| Net profit | -£500,474 | -£425,089 | |
| Cash | £996,376 | £671,770 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,136,337 | £1,711,248 | |
| Net assets | £2,136,337 | £1,711,248 | |
| Equity | £2,136,337 | £1,711,248 | |
| Average employees | 4 | 4 | |
| Wages | £158,542 | £185,198 |
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 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -180.4% | -149.9% | |
| Current ratio | 20.61x | 12.69x |
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
- Hazlewoods LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Company law requires the Directors to consider the appropriateness of the going concern basis when preparing the financial statements. Having considered the period to 31 December 2027, the Directors confirm that they consider that adopting the going concern basis is appropriate. At 31 December 2025, the Group had cash balances of approximately £0.7 million and has access to £0.2 million from the exercise of the Founder Warrants as detailed in Note 15. Therefore, the Directors believe that the Group has sufficient resources to continue in operational existence for a period of at least 12 months from the approval of the financial statements.”
Group structure
- MACAULAY CAPITAL PLC · parent
- Macaulay Management Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 11 February 2026, the Group announced the conditional disposal of one of its portfolio companies, ICA Group Ltd ("ICA"). The transaction has now been completed, and, for investors introduced by CAM, the consideration represented a return of up to 15.5 times their original investment in 2016, pre-performance fees.”
- “As a result of the return on the investment, management and performance fees are payable by certain ICA shareholders to Macaulay of £349,508.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISCA ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2022-05-13 | — | — |
| BUCKNELL, Richard Hywel | Director | 2022-05-17 | Nov 1969 | British |
| HORNER, David Alistair | Director | 2022-05-13 | Oct 1959 | British |
| MAIR, Lindsay Keith Anderson | Director | 2022-05-13 | Dec 1957 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Alistair Horner | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2022-05-13 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 21 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-11-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-04-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-04-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-05-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-24 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-06-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-07 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-02-14 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-02-14 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-06-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-05-25 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-01-29 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-11-17 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-05-30 | CERT8A | incorporation | Legacy | |
| 2022-05-30 | SH50 | reregistration | Application trading certificate | |
| 2022-05-26 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2022-05-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 2
- 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 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31
-
Turnover
+2.2%
£277,447 £283,496
-
Cash
-32.6%
£996,376 £671,770
-
Net assets
-19.9%
£2,136,337 £1,711,248
-
Employees
0%
4 4
-
Profit before tax
+15.1%
-£500,474 -£425,089
-
Wages
+16.8%
£158,542 £185,198
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