Newsdirect (UK) Ltd
Registered name: NEWSDIRECT (UK) LTD
Part of Eci 12 Nominees Limited groupNewsdirect (UK) Ltd does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Mar 2025 show net assets of £284k and 18 employees.
Newsdirect (UK) Ltd 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 £284k and 18 employees. The company is classified under “news agency activities” and is based in Edinburgh; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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.
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Newsdirect (UK) Ltd’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 profit & loss account — 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
- 18
- Net assets
- £284k
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 | No profit & loss | No profit & loss | No profit & loss | No profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 16 | 24 | 22 | 18 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲50% | ▼8.3% | ▼18.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £124k | £243k | £309k | £554k |
| Net assets | £158k | £165k | £224k | £284k |
| Fixed assets | £21.4k | £18.6k | £29.1k | £21.7k |
| Current assets | £391k | £503k | £645k | £654k |
| Debtors | £123k | £161k | £35.6k | £33.5k |
| Deferred income | — | — | £0 | £1.2k |
| Source | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Jul 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
- ▲27%
- Now £284k
- Cash at bank
- ▲80%
- Now £554k
- Headcount
- ▼18%
- Now 18
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.2k
- Fixed assets
- ▼25%
- Now £21.7k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Eci 12 Nominees Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hamsard 3824 Limited75–100%
- Hamsard 3838 Limited75–100%
- Hamsard 3825 Limited75–100%
- Hamsard 3826 Limited75–100%
- Helio Intelligence Holdings Limited75–100%
- Helio Upper Midco Limited75–100%
- Helio Midco Limited75–100%
- Helio Lower Midco Limited75–100%
- Helio Intelligence Group Limited75–100%
- Newsdirect (UK) Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- De Havilland Information Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Forefront Advisers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Newsdirect (Wales) LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FilletedAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.