RUA LIFE SCIENCES PLC — The Accounts

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Next accounts due

2027-03-31 (in 10mo)

Last filed for 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement due

2026-10-29 (in 5mo)

Last made up 2025-10-15

Watchouts

None on the register

Accounts

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis: IFRS
Reporting scope: Consolidated group
Auditor: RSM UK Audit LLP
Audit opinion: Unqualified (clean)
Going concern: Affirmed
“The Directors estimate that the cash held by the Group together with known receivables will be sufficient to support the planned level of activities to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future (being a period of at least 12 months from the date of this report), and for this reason the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

RUA LIFE SCIENCES PLC · parent
1. RUA Biomaterials Limited 100% · Scotland
2. RUA Structural Heart Limited 100% · Scotland
3. RUA Vascular Limited 100% · Scotland
4. RUA Medical Devices Limited 100% · Scotland
5. Aortech International Limited 100% · Scotland
6. Analytic Biosurgical Solutions SAS 100% · France
7. Abiss Poland Sp. z o.o 60% · Poland

Significant events

“The Abiss acquisition added customers, capability and momentum and, on completion, generated a non-recurring bargain-purchase gain of £0.9m.”
“On 6th September 2024, the Group acquired 100% of the share capital of Abiss France SAS, a France-based medical device group, for cash consideration of £68k.”

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

People

7 active · 32 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
SMITH, Lachlan Arthur	Secretary	2023-11-01	—	—
ARDILL, Ian Leslie	Director	2021-01-18	Apr 1967	Northern Irish
BERG, Geoffrey Alan	Director	2018-06-08	May 1956	British
BROWN, William Donald	Director	2011-10-21	Mar 1963	British
ELY, John Louis	Director	2018-06-08	Nov 1950	American
MCKENNA, John	Director	2016-10-31	Aug 1953	British
SMITH, Lachlan Arthur	Director	2022-03-31	Dec 1980	Scottish

Show 32 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
CAMERON, Ian George	Secretary	1998-10-19	2004-12-01
FULL, Kathryn Mary	Secretary	2019-01-02	2023-11-01
LAWRIE, Stuart	Secretary	1997-01-21	1998-08-26
MCDAID, Edward	Secretary	1998-08-26	1998-10-19
PARSONS, John Christopher David	Secretary	2004-12-01	2019-01-02
DALGLEN SECRETARIES LIMITED	Corporate Nominee Secretary	1996-11-21	1997-01-21
ANTHONY, Iain Crawford	Director	2022-03-31	2023-08-30
BROOKS, Jonathan	Director	2001-02-12	2004-03-01
CAMERON, Ian George	Director	1999-03-08	2004-12-20
DUIJST, Peter	Director	1997-01-21	2002-07-01
GIBSON, Peter Jeremy	Director	2004-03-01	2005-05-12
GRAY, Alistair William	Director	1997-05-16	2003-08-11
LOWINGER, Bruno	Director	1997-01-21	2002-07-01
MADDEN, Francis John Philip	Director	1997-01-21	2002-11-20
MAGUIRE, Francis Patrick	Director	2003-07-01	2013-11-30
MCDAID, Edward	Director	2005-11-14	2016-10-31
MCDAID, Edward	Director	1997-01-21	2002-11-20
MCDAID, Edward	Director	1997-01-21	1998-10-19
MCKENNA, John	Director	1997-01-21	2002-07-01
MITCHELL, Roy Walter	Director	2013-05-23	2015-05-31
PITHER, Jon Peter	Director	2004-03-01	2012-12-31
RANIERI, John Paul, Dr	Director	2002-01-22	2002-07-01
RICHMOND, David Muir	Director	2018-06-08	2021-08-31
ROBERTSON, Archibald Bernard	Director	1997-01-21	1997-04-30
ROLLASON, Stuart Bernard, Doctor	Director	2005-05-13	2011-10-21
ROSTRON, Laurence	Director	2002-11-20	2005-05-12
STRACHAN, William Craig	Director	2002-07-01	2004-03-01
STRETTON, Caroline, Dr	Director	2021-01-18	2024-01-26
WILLIAMS, David Franklyn, Professor	Director	1997-05-01	2002-07-01
WRIGHT, James Gordon	Director	2005-11-14	2020-12-10
WRIGHT, James Gordon	Director	1997-01-21	2002-03-04
DALGLEN DIRECTORS LIMITED	Corporate Nominee Director	1996-11-21	1997-01-21

Ownership

Persons with significant control

No persons with significant control on record.

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 289 total filings

Date	Type	Category	Description
2026-03-23	RESOLUTIONS	resolution	Resolution
2026-02-24	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group
2025-10-15	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-04-30	AD01	address	Change registered office address company with date old address new address	PDF
2024-11-05	AA01	accounts	Change account reference date company current extended	PDF
2024-10-23	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group
2024-10-15	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2024-08-29	RESOLUTIONS	resolution	Resolution
2024-02-08	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2023-12-19	SH01	capital	Capital allotment shares	PDF
2023-12-19	RESOLUTIONS	resolution	Resolution
2023-11-02	AP03	officers	Appoint person secretary company with name date	PDF
2023-11-02	TM02	officers	Termination secretary company with name termination date	PDF
2023-10-16	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2023-10-16	CH01	officers	Change person director company with change date	PDF
2023-09-05	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2023-08-23	RESOLUTIONS	resolution	Resolution
2023-08-04	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group
2022-10-26	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-08-30	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type group

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 3
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 0
Officers resigned: 0

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Year-on-year

Latest filed period vs the prior one

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