FTS Venus Ltd
Registered name: FTS VENUS LTD
Part of PC Bidco Limited groupFTS Venus Ltd made £0 revenue and a £384k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
FTS Venus Ltd’s revenue fell 100% to £0 in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £384k and 0 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Bath; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bath, South West
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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
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&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £139k | £0 |
| Cost of sales | £2.3m | £0 |
| Gross profit | −£2.2m | £0 |
| Operating profit | −£3.7m | −£379k |
| Profit before tax | −£2.1m | −£384k |
| Profit after tax | −£2.3m | −£384k |
| Profit (best available) | −£2.3m | −£384k |
| Staff costs | £2.3m | £0 |
| Employees (average) | 5 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −1624% | — |
| Gross margin | −1556% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £27.8k | — |
| Profit per employee | −£451k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼100% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼100% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £5.2m | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £9.1m | £9.5m |
| Fixed assets | £14.5m | £14.8m |
| Current assets | £5.3m | £2.4m |
| Debtors | £104k | £723k |
| Deferred income | £67k | £118k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £9.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼68%
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- ▼100%
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- ▲77%
- Now £118k
- Fixed assets
- ▲2%
- Now £14.8m
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
- PC Bidco Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- FTS Venus Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (10)
- Fidelius LtdRev. £17.8m · Profit £9.6k
- Advance Platform LtdRev. £721k · Profit £531k
- Affuture Financial LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Fidelius Corporate Trustee LtdFigures not disclosed
- Fidelius Group LtdFigures not disclosed
- JSM (Bridgwater) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Parallel Capital LtdFigures not disclosed
- Robson Taylor Independent Financial Advisers LtdFigures not disclosed
- Timothy James & Partners Holdings LimitedRev. — · Profit £1.2m
- Timothy James Consultancy LimitedFigures not disclosed
Minority corporate shareholders
- PW Bidco Limited 25–50%
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 −£384k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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