Original Aberdeen FM Limited
Registered name: ORIGINAL ABERDEEN FM LIMITED
Part of D.C. Thomson & Company Holdings Limited groupOriginal Aberdeen FM Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Mar 2025 show net assets of £1.4m and 11 employees.
Original Aberdeen FM Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 showed net assets of £1.4m and 11 employees. The company is classified under “radio broadcasting” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of D.C. Thomson & Company Limited, a company incorporated in Great Britain and registered in Scotland.”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Original Aberdeen FM Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 11
- Net assets
- £1.4m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Profit only | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit after tax | £217k | £132k | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | £217k | £132k | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 10 | 13 | 11 | 11 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £21.7k | £10.2k | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Profit growth | — | ▼39.1% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲30% | ▼15.4% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | — | — | £0 | £3.8k |
| Net assets | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6k | £485 | — | — |
| Current assets | — | — | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Debtors | £155k | £0 | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼2%
- Now £1.4m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3.8k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 11
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- D.C. Thomson & Company Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- D.C. Thomson & Company Limited75–100%
- Original Aberdeen FM Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (23)
- Aberdeen Journals LimitedRev. £19.4m · Profit £2.9m
- Bananaman Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Beano Productions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Beano Studios LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Brightsolid Online Innovation LimitedRev. — · Profit −£589
- Clavamore LimitedFigures not disclosed
- D.C. Thomson (Energy) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- D.C. Thomson Enterprise Finance LimitedFigures not disclosed
- D.C. Thomson Investco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dandy Entertainment LimitedFigures not disclosed
- DC Thomson Magazine Publishing LimitedFigures not disclosed
- DCT Nominees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dennis & Gnasher 3 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Golfing Scotland LimitedFigures not disclosed
- John Leng & Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kingdom FM Radio Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Marvo the Wonder Chicken 1 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Meadowside Leasing LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Scots Magazine, LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Taytel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tayview LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Stylist Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thomson Magazines LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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