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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

1 item

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

Name history

Renamed 4 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2025-11-05

  1. ETHOS GROUP SERVICES LIMITED 2025-11-05 → present
  2. ETHOS FACILITIES LIMITED 2018-01-10 → 2025-11-05
  3. BRYCELAND (SCOTLAND) LIMITED 2018-01-08 → 2018-01-10
  4. COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL CLEANING SERVICES LIMITED 1997-08-14 → 2018-01-08
  5. OCEAN SERVICES (SCOTLAND) LIMITED 1997-02-14 → 1997-08-14

Accounts

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

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
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 610494
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 2023-12-312024-12-31
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 1.03x1.05x
Interest cover 6.77x0.15x

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

  1. ETHOS GROUP SERVICES LIMITED · parent
    1. Commercial & Industrial Cleaning Supplies Ltd 100% · Scotland · Supply of cleaning materials
    2. Digital Managed Print Services Ltd 65% · Scotland · Provision of print services

Significant events

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 PDF
2025-12-23 PSC01 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2025-11-05 CERTNM change-of-name Certificate change of name company PDF
2025-10-13 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2025-10-07 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-10-01 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2024-09-27 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with updates PDF
2024-01-23 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-10-10 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2023-02-10 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-12-08 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type group
2022-01-28 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
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 PDF
2020-12-17 AA01 accounts Change account reference date company previous shortened PDF
2020-02-07 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-09-30 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type total exemption full PDF
2019-03-26 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2019-03-02 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
5

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

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

Official Companies House page