ETHOS GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-11 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-27
Watchouts
Cash
£223K
+45.2% vs 2023
Net assets
-£42K
-157% vs 2023
Employees
494
-19% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£112K
-120.5% vs 2023
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.
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2025-11-05
- ETHOS GROUP SERVICES LIMITED 2025-11-05 → present
- ETHOS FACILITIES LIMITED 2018-01-10 → 2025-11-05
- BRYCELAND (SCOTLAND) LIMITED 2018-01-08 → 2018-01-10
- COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL CLEANING SERVICES LIMITED 1997-08-14 → 2018-01-08
- OCEAN SERVICES (SCOTLAND) LIMITED 1997-02-14 → 1997-08-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £26,207,857 | £22,127,457 | |
| Operating profit | £641,470 | £20,376 | |
| Profit before tax | £546,780 | -£112,327 | |
| Net profit | £400,648 | -£115,176 | |
| Cash | £153,622 | £223,100 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £343,110 | £392,800 | |
| Net assets | £73,339 | -£41,837 | |
| Equity | £73,339 | -£41,837 | |
| Average employees | 610 | 494 | |
| Wages | £12,417,629 | £10,421,083 |
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 | 2.4% | 0.1% | |
| Net margin | 1.5% | -0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 187.0% | 5.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 98.9% | 100.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.03x | 1.05x | |
| Interest cover | 6.77x | 0.15x |
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
- Welsh Walker Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Group has a healthy pipeline of new work as well as extensive growth with existing customers generating additional income of circa 11m being confirmed prior to the end of 2025. This puts the group in an extremely positive position for the next 12 months. In addition to this one of their subsidiaries has ceased to trade which was costing the group over £300k per annum to subsidise losses and attempted growth. At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors are confident that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- ETHOS GROUP SERVICES LIMITED · parent
- Commercial & Industrial Cleaning Supplies Ltd 100%
- Digital Managed Print Services Ltd 65%
Significant events
- “On 31 May 2025, the Ethos Group disposed of its 65% shareholding in its subsidiary, Digital Managed Print Services Ltd.”
- “In June 2025, the fully owned subsidiary Commercial & Industrial Cleaning Supplies Limited ceased to trade. The company is currently being wound up, and the Ethos Group has taken on responsibility for the payment of creditors and any redundancy costs.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRYCELAND, Patrick | Director | 2000-02-18 | Oct 1964 | British |
| BRYCELAND, Scott | Director | 1997-02-14 | Aug 1972 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRYCELAND, Patrick | Secretary | 1997-02-14 | 1999-10-14 |
| GRAHAM, Margaret Elizabeth Jane | Secretary | 1999-10-14 | 2011-10-01 |
| OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1997-02-14 | 1997-02-14 |
| BRYCELAND, Patrick | Director | 1997-02-14 | 2019-03-26 |
| GRAHAM, Margaret Elizabeth Jane | Director | 2000-02-18 | 2011-10-01 |
| LEVY, Michael John | Director | 2018-08-17 | 2019-01-22 |
| OAKLEY, Raymond John | Director | 2000-02-18 | 2011-09-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Bryceland | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2025-12-23 | Active |
| Scott Bryceland | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-11-01 | Ceased 2025-12-23 |
| Mr Patrick Bryceland | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-11-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 96 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-11-05 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-23 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-23 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-05 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-10-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-01-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-03-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-01-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-12-17 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2020-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2019-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-03-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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
-15.6%
£26,207,857 £22,127,457
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Cash
+45.2%
£153,622 £223,100
-
Net assets
-157%
£73,339 -£41,837
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Employees
-19%
610 494
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Operating profit
-96.8%
£641,470 £20,376
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Profit before tax
-120.5%
£546,780 -£112,327
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Wages
-16.1%
£12,417,629 £10,421,083
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