Registration number: 01844488

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

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Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Company Information

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

The directors present their strategic report for the year ended 31 January 2026.

Principal activity

The principal activity of the company is that of an intermediate holding company.

Fair review of the business

The company heads a medium-sized group. The principal activity of the company’s trading subsidiary undertaking is that of the provision of design and consultancy services to the sound industry and the sale and hire of sound equipment and installation services. The company and the group of which it is a member continue to occupy a key place within the market, with the trading subsidiary undertaking generating increased revenue and continuing profitability.

On 30 January 2026, the group underwent a management buyout (MBO), resulting in the transfer of ownership to its senior management team.

Given the nature of the company's business, turnover primarily relates to the provision of consultancy services to a subsidiary undertaking. Reduction in turnover is due to the termination of a profit share agreement.

The administrative expenses in the statement of income and retained earnings relate mainly to intra-group recharges, salaries and professional services. Dividends amounting to £2,121,078 were received from its subsidiary undertakings in the prior period. No dividends were received in the year to 31 January 2026.

Key performance indicators

The company's key financial and other performance indicators during the year were as follows:

Outlook

The company and the group of which it is a member continue to occupy a key place within the market. The strength of our post-Covid recovery and continued strength thereafter has reinforced and increased the respect we hold within our industry. We continue to source new work and we have diversified in certain areas of the industry to satisfy new customers. These changes combined with the move to new premises and the management buyout will make the company stronger in the face of adversity in the future.

Future developments

Improved organisational structures internally, alongside the MBO and the new premise of the trading subsidiary, mean that the way the company and wider group approach work has revolutionised our capability to undertake larger projects. This will continue to support our growth and development, while the continued use of new software for tracking and accountancy has also helped us better manage future projects. Continuing to take a more proactive approach on new projects and requesting information at an earlier stage is also improving planning and organisation, which in turn allows us to manage our financial position in greater detail.

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

Financial instruments

The company uses basic financial instruments other than derivatives, comprising bank balances, trade creditors and trade debtors. The main purpose of these instruments is to finance the company's operations.

The company is also exposed to the group composite guarantee, in which it is potentially liable for the loans of other related companies.

It is, and has been throughout the year under review, the company policy that no trading in financial instruments shall be undertaken.

Principal risks and uncertainties

The company has exposure to three main areas of risk: liquidity risk, customer credit exposure and interest rate risk. Due to the nature of the financial instruments used by the company there is no exposure to price risk. The company’s approach to managing other risks applicable to the financial instruments concerned is shown below.

In respect of bank balances, liquidity risk is managed through regular cash flow forecasting and monitoring, together with access to financial support from the wider group where required.

Trade debtors are managed in respect of credit and cash flow risk by policies concerning the credit offered to customers and the regular monitoring of amounts outstanding for both time and credit limits.

Trade creditors' liquidity risk is managed by ensuring sufficient funds are available to meet amounts due.

Global economic uncertainty could have an effect on future turnover, however the company and wider group feels able to manage this risk by virtue of the move into alternative areas of sound provision and experiences, and managing its access to equipment by way of proactive control over its own large stock resource enabling the continued provision of high quality equipment to its customers.

Summary

The Board continuously monitors for and responds to changes in the company’s risk environment thereby ensuring that the company remains well placed to address operational, reputational, financial and business risks in a timely and appropriate manner.

Approved by the Board on 27 July 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

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S Arnold
Director

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 January 2026.

Directors of the company

The directors who held office during the year were as follows:

S Arnold

J Sealey (appointed 30 January 2026)

S George (appointed 30 January 2026)

R Tory (appointed 30 January 2026)

W McGonagle (appointed 30 January 2026)

T K Jardine (ceased 30 November 2025)

K A Bruce (ceased 30 January 2026)

A W Bruce (ceased 30 January 2026)

S M Bruce (ceased 30 January 2026)

J B Bruce (ceased 30 January 2026)

Principal activity

The principal activity of the company is that of an intermediate holding company.

Dividends

The directors do not recommend payment of a dividend

Disclosure of information in the Strategic Report

The company has chosen in accordance with s.414C(11) Companies Act 2006 to set out in the company's strategic report information required by Schedule 7 of the Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 to be contained in the directors' report. It has done so in respect of future developments and financial risk management and exposure.

Disclosure of information to the auditor

Approved by the director on 27 July 2026 and signed by:



 

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S Arnold
Director

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

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 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 hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Autograph (Holdings) Limited
for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Autograph (Holdings) Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 January 2026, which comprise the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings, Statement of Financial Position, and Notes to the Financial Statements, 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 our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's 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 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.

Other information

The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. 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.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, 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 audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. 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.

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Autograph (Holdings) Limited
for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report and the Directors' Report.

Responsibilities of directors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities (set out on page 5), the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

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 auditor’s 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 financial statements.

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Autograph (Holdings) Limited
for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

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:

Based on our understanding of the company and the industry in which it operates, we determined that the principal risks of non-compliance with laws and regulations related to the reporting framework (FRS 102 and the Companies Act 2006) and UK corporate taxation laws. These risks were communicated to our audit team and we remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout our audit.

We understood how the company is complying with relevant legislation by making enquiries of management. We also considered the results of our audit procedures and to what extent these corroborate this understanding and assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement. This included consideration of how fraud might occur and evaluation of management’s incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements.

We designed our audit procedures to identify any non-compliance with laws and regulations. Such procedures included, but were not limited to, inspection and understanding of legal costs; challenging assumptions and judgements made by management; identifying and testing journal entries with a focus on large or unusual transactions as determined based on our understanding of the business; and identifying and assessing the effectiveness of controls in place to prevent and detect fraud.

Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there remains a risk that a material misstatement may not have been detected, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance with laws and regulations and cannot be expected to detect all instances of non-compliance.

The primary responsibility for the detection and prevention of fraud rests with those responsible for governance and management. The further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the auditor will become aware of it.

The risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment, collusion, omission, misrepresentation or forgery.

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 auditor's report.

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Autograph (Holdings) Limited
for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the company’s members, as a body, 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 auditor’s 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 as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

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Helen Evans (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of

Brebners, Statutory Auditor
130 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
W1D 5AR

28 July 2026

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Statement of Income and Retained Earnings for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Statement of Financial Position as at 31 January 2026

Approved and authorised by the Board on 27 July 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

 

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S Arnold

Director

Company registration number: 01844488

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
130 Shaftesbury Avenue
2nd Floor
London
W1D 5EU

The principal place of business is:
Unit 29-30 Segro Park
Horsenden Lane South
Perivale
UB6 7RJ

The principal activity of the company is that of an intermediate holding company.

Statement of compliance

Basis of preparation

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Summary of disclosure exemptions

The company satisfies the criteria of being a qualifying entity as defined in FRS 102. As such, advantage has been taken of the following reduced disclosures available under FRS 102:

a) No cash flow statement has been presented.
b) Disclosures in respect of financial instruments have not been presented.
c) Disclosures in respect of key management personnel compensation in total have not been presented.

Group accounts not prepared

Exemption is taken from preparing consolidated financial statements under Companies Act 2006 Section 400 on the basis that the company and its subsidiary undertakings are reflected in the consolidated financial statements of Sound of Spring Limited which are publicly available.

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

Going concern

As at 31 January 2026, the group of which the company is a member had net assets of £417,617 including cash at bank of £1,725,528.

Having navigated through the hardest years in the group's history due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last four years have seen a strong recovery and return to profitability. The latest unaudited management accounts show that the group has continuing profitability subsequent to the year end. The cashflow position for the year ahead demonstrates that the group has sufficient working capital for a period exceeding 12 months from the approval of the financial statements.

After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.

Revenue recognition

Foreign currency transactions and balances

Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recorded at the functional currency rate prevailing at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated into the respective functional currency of the entity at the rates prevailing on the reporting period date. Non-monetary items carried at fair value that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rate on the date when the fair value is re-measured.

Non-monetary items measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are not retranslated.

Tax

Tangible assets

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

Depreciation

Investments

Cash and cash equivalents

Share capital

Employee benefit trust

The company is the sponsoring entity of the Autograph (Holdings) Group Employees' Trust. Whilst legally not the property of the company, investments and other assets held by the Trust are recognised in the financial statements at cost in accordance with FRS 102. Finance costs and administrative expenses are charged as they are incurred.

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

The analysis of the company's turnover for the year from continuing operations is as follows:

The analysis of the company's turnover for the year by market is as follows:

Arrived at after charging/(crediting)

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

The aggregate payroll costs (including directors' remuneration) were as follows:

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, analysed by category was as follows:

The directors' remuneration for the year was as follows:

In respect of the highest paid director:

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

Tax charged/(credited) in the income statement

The tax on profit before tax for the year is higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK (2025 - lower than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK) of 25% (2025 - 25%).

The differences are reconciled below:

Deferred tax

Deferred tax assets and liabilities

Autograph (Holdings) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2026

	Furniture, fittings and equipment  £	Total £
Cost
At 1 February 2025	9,505	9,505
Disposals	(9,505)	(9,505)
At 31 January 2026	-	-
Depreciation
At 1 February 2025	9,505	9,505
Eliminated on disposal	(9,505)	(9,505)
At 31 January 2026	-	-
Carrying amount
At 31 January 2026	-	-
At 31 January 2025	-	-

11	Investments

	2026  £	2025  £
Investments in subsidiaries	140,101	140,101