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(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
COMPANY INFORMATION
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
CONTENTS
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The Directors present their strategic report and financial statements of SMC Pharma Services Ltd. and its subsidiary Oval Medical Technologies Limited (together “the Group”) for the year ended 31 December 2024.
The principal activity of the Group is the investment in research and development (“R&D”) of autoinjector platform technologies and pharmaceutical process development to support aseptic fill-finish activities. The Group will continue with this activity for the foreseeable future. During the year, the Group continued the fit out of its leasehold facility that will deliver a pharmaceutical development and contract manufacturing service for small batch fill finish. The Group’s turnover in the financial year was £2,100,244, increasing from £138,972 in the 2023 comparative period. Administrative costs decreased to £6,535,067 for the financial year compared to £12,827,161 in 2023. In 2023, the administrative costs included an impairment charge of £5,051,624 relating to certain assets where the Directors assessed the carrying value exceeded the recoverable amount. Research and development costs decreased marginally in the year to £3,059,917 from £3,528,969 in the comparative 2023 period. The loss after tax for the financial year reduced to £8,956,292 compared to a loss of £17,181,896 in 2023. The Group’s employee numbers decreased to an average of 28 in 2024, down from an average of 65 in the 2023 period following a restructure of the Group's operations. The Group had net liabilities of £34,967,782 as at 31 December 2024 compared to £26,011,490 as at 31 December 2023.
The directors are satisfied with the results for the year and the financial position as at the date hereof. PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES The Group is committed to reviewing risks to its business on an on-going basis. The directors are responsible for this review and have implemented several controls to mitigate potential risk to the Group. The principal risk and uncertainties facing the Group are identified as follows: Operational risk: The Group aims to minimise operational risk by ensuring that it has adequate internal processes and procedures to manage the activities of the business such as a robust R&D stage-gate process, a project planning system, a Quality Management System that supports ISO13485 certification and financial processes. It also ensures that each functional area of the business is resourced with appropriately skilled employees. The Quality Management System has been enhanced to ensure it will support a licence application for Investigational Medicinal Products with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. Competitive risk: The Group ensures that it undertakes innovative R&D such that it can add value to the needs of its customers when compared to the offerings of its competitors. Liquidity risk: The Group ensures that it prepares adequate short and mid-term cash forecasts to minimise any liquidity risk. It carefully manages the receipts of trade debtors and payments to trade creditors. Reputational risk: The Group aims to manage reputational risk to include safety and quality issues regarding its products through stringent design and process risk assessments and HAZOP evaluations, testing procedures, management of information technology security issues, and ensuring all product innovation is ethical.
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Compliance risk:
The Group has in place a series of measures to manage compliance risk which include but are not limited to abiding by laws, regulations and Health and Safety practices, following internal Quality procedures to include addressing deviations and ensuring environmental impacts are considered and managed.
The Group measures its success on the stage of development of its technology platforms for novel syringe and autoinjectors. During 2024 the Group advanced each of its technology platforms as well as increasing sales of process manufacturing services.
The Group operates within a group of associated medical companies which includes SMC Ltd. Supported by state-of-the-art facilities and populated with cutting edge equipment, our expert team has the experience, capability and resources required to support your drug product, from bench to market and onto lifecycle management. Operating as a single integrated partner we are building an advanced range of technologies and capabilities offering precise quality combined with flexibility, security, and lower risk.
Oval Medical Technologies Limited, the Group's wholly owned subsidiary, will continue to perform R&D to develop its autoinjector platform technologies to combine patient-friendly designs with the ability to deliver a wide range of drug formulations for both subcutaneous and intramuscular injections. Oval’s patient-centric approach means intuitive to use, user friendly and safe autoinjectors. Patient preference matters, users have an increasing influence on device choice. Our modular platform technology can be tailored for challenging formulations. This modular approach means the power pack, primary drug container and patient interface can be substituted with minimal impact making it a truly flexible customisable design. Commercially, sustainable competitive advantage is crucial for long term return, by truly putting the patient first, Oval are helping partners deliver their business goals. SMC Pharma Services Ltd. will deliver a pharmaceutical development and contract manufacturing service for small batch fill finish. The company will operate with a high level of appropriate sterility assurance using leading technology, robust Quality systems and dedicated staff to meet customer changing requirements and critical deadlines.
This report was approved by the board on 25 September 2025 and signed on its behalf.
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
The directors are responsible for preparing the Group Strategic Report, the Directors' Report and the consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the Group's financial statements and then apply them consistently;
∙make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
∙prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Group will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and the Group and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The loss for the year, after taxation, amounted to £8,956,292 (2023 - loss £17,181,896).
GOING CONCERN
The financial statements have been prepared on the basis that the Company is a going concern. In reaching this decision, the directors have considered projections of the cash flows of the Company for the next twelve months covering the existing commitments of the Company together with additional investment required to develop autoinjector technologies. The cash flows indicate that the Company may need additional finance during 2025 and 2026, which will be provided via a related Company, SMC Ltd. It is on this assumption that these financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis. Further disclosure is included in note 2.3 to the financial statements.
The directors who served during the year were:
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Under section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006, Price Bailey LLP will be deemed to have been reappointed as auditors 28 days after these financial statements were sent to members or 28 days after the latest date prescribed for filing the accounts with the registrar, whichever is earlier.
This report was approved by the board on
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
We have audited the financial statements of SMC Pharma Services Ltd (formerly Cambridge Pharma Limited) (the 'Parent Company') and its subsidiaries (the 'Group') for the year ended 31 December 2024, which comprise the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income, the , the Consolidated Balance Sheet, the Company Balance Sheet, the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity, the Company Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group's or the Parent Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED) (CONTINUED)
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditors' Report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the Annual Report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
∙the information given in the Group Strategic Report and the Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
∙the Group Strategic Report and the Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the Group and the Parent Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Group Strategic Report or the Directors' Report.
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED) (CONTINUED)
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an Auditors' Report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these Group financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
We gained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the company and the industry in which it operates and considered the risk of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations. This included those regulations directly related to the financial statements, including financial reporting, tax legislation and distributable profits and industry regulations including GDPR, employment law and health and safety. We communicated the identified laws and regulations with the audit team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit. We carried out specific procedures to address the risks identified. These included the following: - agreeing the financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation to assess compliance with provisions of relevant laws and regulations described as having a direct effect on the financial statements; - enquiries of management including those responsible for key regulations; and - performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud. In addressing the risk of management override of controls, we carried out testing of journal entries and other adjustments for appropriateness, assessing whether the judgements made in making accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias and evaluating the business rationale of significant transactions outside the normal course of business. Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Auditors' Report.
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED) (CONTINUED)
This report is made solely to the Company's members in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an Auditors' Report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company's members for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditors
Tennyson House
Cambridge Business Park
CB4 0WZ
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
REGISTERED NUMBER: 10446752
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2024
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf on 25 September 2025.
The notes on pages 16 to 36 form part of these financial statements.
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SMC PHARMA SERVICES LTD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
(FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE PHARMA LIMITED)
REGISTERED NUMBER: 10446752
COMPANY BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2024
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf on
The notes on pages 16 to 36 form part of these financial statements.
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