FIREFLY BIDCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-22 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-08
Watchouts
Cash
£769K
+0.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£23M
-23.2% vs 2023
Employees
123
+29.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£7M
-41.7% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Audit opinion: Qualified
Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.
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 | £6,996,743 | £8,582,008 | |
| Operating profit | -£3,923,621 | -£5,972,912 | |
| Profit before tax | -£5,130,692 | -£7,269,937 | |
| Net profit | -£5,176,331 | -£7,273,115 | |
| Cash | £766,668 | £769,372 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £41,247,016 | £35,854,424 | |
| Net assets | £29,539,723 | £22,687,681 | |
| Equity | £29,539,723 | £22,687,681 | |
| Average employees | 95 | 123 | |
| Wages | £4,613,174 | £6,390,882 |
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 | -56.1% | -69.6% | |
| Net margin | -74.0% | -84.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | -9.5% | -16.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 41.9% | 51.6% | |
| Current ratio | 2.03x | 1.72x | |
| Interest cover | -3.22x | -4.60x |
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
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Qualified
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors consider the Group and Company to be a going concern, and the financial statements have been prepared on this basis. Management regularly produces and reviews forecasts, considering both internal and external factors and conditions. Management have prepared forecasts covering the period to 31 January 2027 and no cashflow shortfalls or working capital issues have been identified.”
Group structure
- FIREFLY BIDCO LIMITED · parent
- Firefly Learning Limited 100%
- Firefly Learning Pty Limited 100%
- Firefly Learning PTE Limited 100%
- Empetus Limited 100%
- Epraise Limited 100%
- Conifier HoldCo Pty Ltd 100%
- Conifer BidCo Pty Ltd 100%
- Digistorm Group Pty Ltd 100%
- Digistorm Operations Pty Ltd 100%
- Digistorm Pty Ltd 100%
- Digistorm LLC 100%
Significant events
- “The company has identified a material prior period misstatement as a result of the acquisition of Digistorm Group Pty Ltd (and related entities) which occurred on 17 May 2023.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRIVICKAS, Joseph | Director | 2023-01-09 | Mar 1962 | American |
| RANDOM, Amelia | Director | 2023-01-09 | Jul 1986 | American |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 18 of 18 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-02-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-02-03 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-01-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2024-11-06 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-10-07 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2024-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2024-08-27 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2024-02-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-06-29 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-05-22 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares subdivision | |
| 2023-05-09 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-02-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-01-19 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-01-09 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+22.7%
£6,996,743 £8,582,008
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Cash
+0.4%
£766,668 £769,372
-
Net assets
-23.2%
£29,539,723 £22,687,681
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Employees
+29.5%
95 123
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Operating profit
-52.2%
-£3,923,621 -£5,972,912
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Profit before tax
-41.7%
-£5,130,692 -£7,269,937
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Wages
+38.5%
£4,613,174 £6,390,882
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