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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-11-18 (in 6mo)

Last made up 2025-11-04

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£2M

+3,746.5% vs 2023

Net assets

£601K

+86.2% vs 2023

Employees

Average over period

Profit before tax

-£191K

-314.3% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 2 times since incorporation

  1. IVYWOOD COLLEGES LIMITED 2006-04-19 → present
  2. IVY WOOD COLLEGE LIMITED 2006-02-14 → 2006-04-19
  3. CFR 32 LIMITED 2005-09-13 → 2006-02-14

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £3,260,440£3,466,407
Operating profit -£95,370-£265,830
Profit before tax -£46,188-£191,379
Net profit -£37,351-£145,680
Cash £46,006£1,769,626
Total assets less current liabilities £17,890,005£16,800,533
Net assets £322,769£601,027
Equity £322,769£601,027
Average employees
Wages

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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin -2.9%-7.7%
Net margin -1.1%-4.2%
Return on capital employed -0.5%-1.6%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 98.6%97.2%
Current ratio 1.15x1.19x
Interest cover -0.07x-0.19x

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 101
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
Wellden Turnbull Limited
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The Directors have assessed the liquidity and forecast covenant compliance for a period of at least twelve months from date of approval of the financial statements. These forecasts include the ability of the company to meet all loan and interest repayments and other liabilities as they fall due. The company meets its day to day working capital requirements principally through unitary charge receipts from Belfast Metropolitan College. The Directors do not consider the ability of government authorities to pay unitary fees to be a material risk. The Directors consider the ability of key sub-contractors to continue to meet their contractual commitments a potential risk to the company. The Directors have assessed the ability of key sub-contractors to continue to meet their contractual commitments including the unlikely event of a sub-contractor failure. To date, the current economic environment has not resulted in any adverse impact on the services provided by the sub-contractor. In making their assessment, the Directors have tested various stress scenarios which show that, even in the unlikely event of a sub-contractor failure, the Company can continue to meet loan covenants and other liabilities as they fall due (including covenant compliance and the funding of reserves) in the next twelve months. The principal loan covenants are historic and forecast financial ratios. The company's forecasts and projections, taking into account the above risks and current economic conditions, show that the company expects to be able to operate within the level of current facilities and continue to meet loan covenants. As explained in the Financial Risk Management section of this report (page 2), the company mitigates interest rate risk by use of an interest rate swap to effectively fix the interest rate and mitigates inflation risk by linking an element of the unitary charge to inflation. Consequently, the Directors are confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Significant events

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

People

6 active · 28 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
BELL, Samantha Secretary 2025-10-09
CHEADLE, Jayne Secretary 2018-04-20
KNOWLES, Sarah Elizabeth Director 2024-07-01 Oct 1972 British
LOTTER, Jessabel Piera Director 2026-03-01 Nov 1994 British
REID, Jordan Luke Director 2025-01-01 Sep 1989 British
THORNE, Alexander Victor Director 2019-11-01 Mar 1989 British
Show 28 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
DOHERTY, Nicholas Adam Secretary 2006-02-01 2006-02-01
HARVEY, Conal Vincent Secretary 2006-02-01 2006-02-01
NICHOLL, John Patrick Secretary 2007-07-02 2018-04-20
SMITH, Michael Secretary 2006-02-08 2006-02-08
CYPHER SERVICES LIMITED Corporate Secretary 2005-09-13 2007-07-02
CLANCY, Richard Simon Muir Director 2023-05-05 2024-02-09
COMERFORD, Jonathan Director 2017-05-01 2018-04-20
CROSS, Stephen Vincent Director 2005-09-13 2006-02-01
DOHERTY, Nicholas Adam Director 2006-02-01 2017-05-23
DRIVER, Ross William Director 2018-04-20 2020-05-15
DUNDAS, John Craig Director 2018-04-20 2025-01-01
EBBAGE, Jennifer Ann Director 2005-09-13 2006-02-01
EXAKOUSTIDOU, Angeliki Maria Director 2022-09-26 2025-10-10
EYRE, James Director 2016-01-25 2018-04-20
FOOT, David Alexander John, Mr. Director 2020-05-15 2022-03-29
GAVAGHAN, David Nicholas Director 2013-06-25 2015-02-17
GILL, Christopher Mark David Director 2020-07-31 2023-05-05
HARVEY, Conal Vincent Director 2006-02-01 2017-05-01
HAWKINS, Kevin Stuart Director 2024-02-09 2024-07-01
HAWKINS, Kevin Stuart Director 2018-08-22 2020-07-31
HOLDEN, Mark Geoffrey David Director 2018-04-20 2023-05-04
LUFKIN, Antonia Maxine Director 2025-10-10 2026-03-01
NICHOLL, John Patrick Director 2016-01-25 2018-04-20
POUPARD, Natalia Director 2019-02-20 2019-11-01
POWER, Patrick John Director 2017-05-23 2018-04-20
SMITH, Michael Director 2006-02-08 2012-05-31
TURNBULL, Rachel Louise Director 2018-04-20 2018-10-31
WEGENER, Elena Giorgiana Director 2018-10-31 2019-02-20

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Ivywood Colleges Holdings Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% 2018-04-20 Active
Mr Patrick Joseph Doherty Individual Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm 2016-04-06 Ceased 2018-04-20
Mr Dermot Fachtna Desmond Individual Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm 2016-04-06 Ceased 2018-04-20

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 135 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2026-03-02 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2026-03-02 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2026-01-08 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2025-12-04 CH03 officers Change person secretary company with change date PDF
2025-11-10 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2025-10-10 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-10-10 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2025-10-09 AP03 officers Appoint person secretary company with name date PDF
2025-05-30 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-01-07 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2025-01-07 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-11-06 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2024-07-08 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-07-08 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2024-05-31 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-02-13 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2024-02-13 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2023-11-10 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2023-07-19 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-05-15 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
9

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
2

last 12 months

Officers resigned
2

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

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

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