UCFB HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Cash
£99K
-89% vs 2024
Net assets
-£24M
-46.4% vs 2024
Employees
291
-9.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£7.5M
-75.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Negative shareholders' funds
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £26,985,582 | £25,701,844 | -4.8% | |
| Operating profit | £2,697,802 | -£675,708 | -125% | |
| Profit before tax | -£4,241,149 | -£7,451,519 | -75.7% | |
| Net profit | -£4,241,149 | -£7,430,855 | -75.2% | |
| Cash | £899,766 | £98,690 | -89% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,689,860 | -£5,617,220 | -252.2% | |
| Net assets | -£16,710,789 | -£24,459,476 | -46.4% | |
| Equity | — | — | — | |
| Average employees | 320 | 291 | -9.1% | |
| Wages | — | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 10.0% | -2.6% | |
| Net margin | -15.7% | -28.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 73.1% | — | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 208.8% | 318.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.48x | 0.22x | |
| Interest cover | 1.16x | -0.23x |
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
- Lopian Gross Barnett & Co
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors confirm that they have the continued support of their loan capital providers and in addition secured long term funding to enable the directors to implement the planned growth of the company and its fellow group members. On that basis and from their forecasts the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company will be able to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and it is therefore appropriate to prepare the accounts on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- UCFB HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- UA Manchester Limited 100%
- UA Wembley Limited 100%
- UCFB Burnley Limited 100%
- UCFB College of Football Business Limited 100%
- UCFB Education Limited 100%
- UCFB Manchester Limited 100%
- UCFB Student Accommodation Limited 100%
- UCFB Wembley Limited 99%
- University Campus Of Football Business Limited 100%
- UCFB Manchester Academy Limited 100%
- UCFB Liverpool Limited 100%
- UCFB London Stadium Limited 100%
- UCFB HE Limited 100%
- Firstpoint International Limited 80%
- Be Varsity Limited 100%
- Track Bound USA Limited 100%
- What College International Limited 100%
- UCFB Online Limited 100%
- VSI Executive Education Limited 87.5%
Significant events
- “During the financial year to 31st July 2025, UCFB initiated a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS) for all staff. This was to mitigate the impact of the cost of inflation as the tuition fees for UCFB had been capped by Government since September 2017. 17 members of staff opted into the VSS, the cost of the VSS was circa £200k.”
- “In November 2024, UCFB acquired a further 12.5% (to take the total investment to 87.5%) of VSI Executive Education Limited (VSI). The investment in VSI was subsequently transferred from UCFB Holdings Limited to UCFB.”
- “In June 2025, UCFB Holdings Limited agreed to sell its 80% shareholding in FirstPoint International Limited. A requirement of the sale was that UCFB Holdings Limited provided against the £5.5m loan it had given to FirstPoint International Limited whilst in the Group. The sale of FirstPoint was completed in October 2024. UCFB Holdings Limited has retained a 24.8% interest in FirstPoint Holdings Limited and will benefit from any future profits of FirstPoint.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BANASZKIEWICZ, John William | Director | 2014-03-28 | Dec 1962 | British |
| FLETCHER, Paul John | Director | 2014-03-28 | Jan 1951 | British |
| FLOOD, Brendan | Director | 2014-03-28 | Nov 1961 | British |
| HOLROYD, Charles William | Director | 2017-11-16 | Feb 1953 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, Philip Alan Stuart | Director | 2014-03-28 | 2017-07-18 |
| WOODINGS, Simon | Director | 2013-12-23 | 2014-03-28 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utc Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2016-12-21 | Ceased 2016-12-21 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 74 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-03-31 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-03-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-01-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-02-25 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-10-29 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-09-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-22 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2024-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-08-10 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-08-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-03-31 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-03-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-03-23 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2022-03-17 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-02-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-01-17 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2022-01-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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.