PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SERVICES UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-30 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-16
Watchouts
Cash
£61K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
-£8M
Equity attributable
Employees
57
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£8M
Period ending 2024-12-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
1-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
1-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £23,461,964 | |
| Operating profit | -£8,064,497 | |
| Profit before tax | -£8,064,497 | |
| Net profit | -£8,064,497 | |
| Cash | £61,053 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£8,064,496 | |
| Net assets | -£8,064,496 | |
| Equity | -£8,064,496 | |
| Average employees | 57 | |
| Wages | £9,104,665 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -34.4% | |
| Net margin | -34.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 100.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 207.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.48x |
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
- PKF Littlejohn LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have formed judgment and are satisfied that at the time of approving the financial statements, that there is a reasonable expectation that Company has adequate resources to continue its operations for the foreseeable future. The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis, which assumes the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to pay its debts as they fall due and thus continue to trade. The Company assumes that the ultimate Parent undertaking, Accredited International Insurance Group Inc (Delaware), will continue to provide financial support to the Company.”
Significant events
- “In 2023, the employment contracts of the UK-based staff previously employed by Accredited Insurance Europe Limited were transferred to the Company. In 2024, additional employees were transferred from R&Q Central Services Limited prior to its cessation of trading on 16 September 2024.”
- “On 17 August 2023, Accredited International Insurance Group Inc., the parent company, made the £1 initial shareholder contribution.”
- “On 4 April 2023, R&Q announced that it was undertaking a strategic initiative to separate its legacy insurance business, R&Q Legacy, from its program management business, Accredited (which includes the Company, Accredited Insurance (Europe) Limited, Accredited Specialty Insurance Company US, Accredited Surety and Casualty Company, Inc. US).”
- “On 20 October 2023, R&Q announced that it had entered into a conditional agreement with funds advised by Onex Corporation ("Onex") to sell 100 per cent of the equity interest in Randall & Quilter America Holdings Inc., the holding company of Accredited, for a purchase price of $465 million.”
- “On 13 June 2024, R&Q announced that Onex provided an alternative transaction structure to that of the original Sale (the "Alternative Proposal") that could be implemented in the event that the closing conditions to the original Sale were not able to be satisfied, and on 19 June 2024, the R&Q concluded that the Alternative Proposal represented the best option to secure value and to ensure the completion of the Accredited sale.”
- “On 21 June 2024, the ultimate parent company, R&Q Insurance Holdings Ltd, filed for provisional liquidation in Bermuda and implemented the sale of Accredited to Onex through that process.”
- “On 28 June 2024, 100% of the equity interest in Accredited, including the Company, was sold to Onex Partners, for a cash consideration of $420 million.”
- “There were no material events affecting the Company which occurred after the reporting date.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PENNINGTON, Steve | Director | 2025-07-10 | Mar 1964 | British |
| WALSH, Rosalino Elizabeth | Director | 2024-08-22 | Jul 1967 | Northern Irish |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| R&Q CENTRAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2023-08-17 | 2024-06-20 |
| CURTIS, Lee | Director | 2023-08-17 | 2025-01-03 |
| JOHNSON, Colin David | Director | 2023-08-17 | 2024-08-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Gerald Wilfred Schwartz | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-06-28 | Active |
| R&Q Insurance Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2023-08-17 | Ceased 2024-06-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 14 of 14 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-07 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-07-07 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-02-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-08 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-08 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-17 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2023-08-17 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
Latest filed period vs the prior one