Findmypast Limited
Registered name: FINDMYPAST LIMITED
Part of D.C. Thomson & Company Holdings Limited groupFindmypast Limited made £18.2m revenue and a £169k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Findmypast Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £18.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £169k and 143 employees. The company is classified under “activities of other membership organizations” and is based in London; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- 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 brightsolid online innovation limited, a company incorporated in Great Britain and registered in Scotland.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.1m | £18.2m |
| Cost of sales | £11.6m | £12.5m |
| Gross profit | £5.5m | £5.7m |
| Operating profit | −£1.4m | −£95k |
| Profit before tax | −£1.4m | −£2k |
| Profit after tax | −£1.1m | −£169k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.1m | −£169k |
| Staff costs | £6.5m | £5.8m |
| Employees (average) | 144 | 143 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −6.5% | −0.9% |
| Gross margin | 32% | 31.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £119k | £127k |
| Profit per employee | −£7.7k | −£1.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £4.2m | £1.4m |
| Net assets | £15.1m | £15m |
| Fixed assets | £20.1m | £19.8m |
| Current assets | £10.7m | £9.7m |
| Debtors | £803k | £556k |
| Deferred income | £2.3m | £1.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £127k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£1.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 109.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.1%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
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
- ▼1%
- Now £15m
- Cash at bank
- ▼67%
- Now £1.4m
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 143
- Deferred income
- ▼38%
- Now £1.4m
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £19.8m
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
- D.C. Thomson & Company Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- D.C. Thomson & Company Limited75–100%
- Brightsolid Online Innovation Limited75–100%
- Findmypast Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Findmypast Newspaper Archive LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (2)
- Brightsolid Online Technology LimitedRev. £11.4m · Profit −£1.1m
- Friends Reunited 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 (profit −£169k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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