The directors present the strategic report for the year ended 31 December 2025.
The company is an intermediate, non-trading holding company, holding shares in its trading subsidiary as shown in notes 11 and 12.
The profit reported for the year, principally arises from dividends and interest received from its subsidiary.
At the year end, the company has net assets of £3,025,332 (2024: £3,025,332) which the directors believe is sufficient for an intermediate holding company.
As a non-trading intermediate parent company, receiving group dividends and interest only, the directors do no consider there are an principal risks and uncertainties to disclose.
As a non-trading intermediate parent company, receiving intra-group dividends, incurring interest and recharging interest to a fellow group company, the company predominately is funded by way of group funding. The company does incur interest on convertible loan notes and as such has exposure to a number of risks which are described in more detail below. The directors review and agree policies for managing these risks. These policies have remained unchanged from previous years.
Liquidity risk
The company seeks to manage financial risk by ensuring liquidity is available to meet foreseeable needs and to invest cash assets safely and profitably. Short-term flexibility is achieved by way of funding obtained from fellow group companies as required.
Interest rate risk
The company finances its operations through a combination of retained profits, intra-group loans and convertible loan notes. The company's exposure to interest rate fluctuations on its borrowings is managed by the use of fixed facilities.
The company reviews and monitors its performance against a number of key performance indicators both financial and non-financial. As an intermediate holding company, the principal measures include dividends received from subsidiaries, profit before tax and net assets. These are reviewed by the management team and reported to the Board on a monthly basis.
The Directors have and will continue to monitor all of the KPI’s and daily operating controls and maintain a strong focus on increasing performance in all aspects of the business.
The main KPI’s and corresponding results are as follows:
• Dividends received £3.59m (2024: £Nil).
• Profit before tax £3.59m (2024: £Nil).
• Net assets £3.03m (2024: £3.03m).
Interest incurred on convertible loan notes are recharged to group companies and as such the profit reported for the year is a result of the dividends received from its profitable trading subsidiary.
Net assets remain unchanged from the prior period end as the company votes intra group dividends up to the parent, equal to the intra group dividend received. The Directors are satisfied that sufficient net assets have been retained in the company.
On behalf of the board
The directors present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.
The results for the year are set out on page 8.
The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:
The company will continue to be an intermediate holding company. The future success of the company is linked to its trading subsidiaries.
The wider group, is investing significantly in its people and IT systems in order to sustain future growth. In addition, the continued to invest heavily in targeted advertising in order to enhance revenues.
The auditor, Sumer Auditco Limited, is deemed to be reappointed under section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006.
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:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company 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 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.
We have audited the financial statements of Navigate Midco Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2025 which comprise the statement of comprehensive income, the balance sheet, the statement of changes in equity and notes to the financial statements, including 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).
Basis for opinion
Conclusions relating to going concern
Other information
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
As explained more fully in the directors' responsibilities statement, 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.
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 identified areas of laws and regulations that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the financial statements from our general commercial and sector experience, and through discussions with the Directors (as required by auditing standards) and discussed with the Directors the policies and procedures regarding compliance with laws and regulations. We communicated identified laws and regulations throughout our team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit. The potential effect of these laws and regulations on the financial statements varies considerably.
Firstly, the Company is subject to laws and regulations that directly affect the financial statements including financial reporting legislation and taxation legislation. We assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement items.
Secondly, the Company is subject to many other laws and regulations where the consequences of non-compliance could have a material effect on amounts or disclosures in the financial statements, for instance through the imposition of fines or litigation. We identified the following areas as those most likely to have such an effect; laws related to Health and Safety, Employment, UK Companies Act, Pension Legislation and Tax Legislation.
Auditing standards limit the required audit procedures to identify non-compliance with these laws and regulations to enquiry of the Directors and inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any. Through these procedures we did not become aware of any actual or suspected non-compliance.
Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations (irregularities) is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required by auditing standards would identify it. In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of irregularities, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.
We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outline below to detect material misstatement due to fraud:
Matters are discussed amongst the audit engagement team regarding how and where fraud might occur in the financial statements and potential indicators of fraud
Identifying and assessing the design and effectiveness of controls that management have in place to prevent and detect fraud
Detecting and responding to the risks of fraud following discussions with management and enquiring as to whether management have knowledge of any actual, suspected or alleged fraud.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's member 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 member those matters we are required to state to the member 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 member, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
The profit and loss account has been prepared on the basis that all operations are continuing operations.
Navigate Midco Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 3rd Floor, 22 Old Bond Street, London, W1S 4PY.
The prior accounting period was shortened to 31 December 2024 from 30 April 2025, creating an 8 month period in order to align with the parent company. Consequently the balances presented for the year within the financial statements (including the related notes) are not entirely comparable with the prior period.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £1.
This company is a qualifying entity for the purposes of FRS 102, being a member of a group where the parent of that group prepares publicly available consolidated financial statements, including this company, which are intended to give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the group. The company has therefore taken advantage of exemptions from the following disclosure requirements:
Section 7 ‘Statement of Cash Flows’: Presentation of a statement of cash flow and related notes and disclosures;
Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instrument Issues: Interest income/expense and net gains/losses for financial instruments not measured at fair value; basis of determining fair values; details of collateral, loan defaults or breaches, details of hedges, hedging fair value changes recognised in profit or loss and in other comprehensive income;
Section 33 ‘Related Party Disclosures’: Compensation for key management personnel.
At the balance sheet date, the company had net current liabilities of £15,119 (2024: £15,119) of which £12,558,699 (2024: £8,719,739) is due to the immediate parent company. The ultimate parent company has confirmed that it will continue to support the company for at least 12 months from signing the financial statements.
Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
Dividend income receivable from subsidiary companies is recognised in the period they are voted.
Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.
Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the company transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party.
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.
Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.
Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
Financial liabilities are derecognised when the company’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.
Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.
The estimates and assumptions which have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities are as follows.
The carrying value of investments is initially recognised at cost, less any impairment deemed necessary, should there be a permanent diminution in value.
Annual impairment reviews are undertaken by the board considering both the net assets of the subsidiaries, current and future profitability linked to the EBITDA multiple established on acquisition. Impairment indicators may include a reduction in turnover or profitability.
During the year, no impairment losses have been considered necessary (2024: £Nil).
Refer to note 11, showing the fixed assets investment carrying values impacted by this key accounting estimate.
Audit fees are borne by Compass CHC Limited, an indirect subsidiary.
The average monthly number of persons employed by the company during the year was:
No remuneration was paid to the directors (2024: £Nil).
The actual charge for the year can be reconciled to the expected charge/(credit) for the year based on the profit or loss and the standard rate of tax as follows:
Details of the company's subsidiaries at 31 December 2025 are as follows:
Registered office addresses (all UK unless otherwise indicated):
Ordinary shares of £1 each, carry the right to vote, the right to participate in any dividends declared, and the right to participate in any distribution being a return on capital whether on liquidation, capital reduction or otherwise. They are not redeemable.
Preference shares of 1p each, do not carry the right to vote. However will receive a fixed preferential dividend, carry the right to participate in a return of capital and are redeemable.
There is an unconditional and irrevocable guarantee in the favour of TC loans Limited dated 10 May 2024 given by Compass CHC Limited, Navigate Bidco Limited and Navigate Midco Limited. This contains a floating charge over the assets within the companies listed above. As at 31 December 2025, the total group liability stood at £11,249,972 (2024: £9,000,000).
The company has taken advantage of the exemption allowed by Financial Reporting Standard 102, "Related party disclosures" Section 33.1A not to disclose details of related party transactions with entities that are 100% owned members of the same group. There are no other related party transactions other than as disclosed.