ENGLISHTYPE LIMITED
Company number 04944034 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Englishtype Limited is a long-established but declining micro-player in the UK educational software niche, likely focused on touch-typing instruction. While its near-zero leverage and positive cash position provide short-term stability, the erosion of retained earnings, absence of reinvestment, and zero-employee structure signal a business in managed decline rather than growth mode. The broader sector's shift toward SaaS delivery, free-to-use alternatives, and platform-native solutions presents existential challenges that this company's current resource base appears insufficient to address. The resignation of a director and concentration of ownership in a single PSC further increases key-person risk for an already fragile competitive position.
Shareholders' funds
£37,874
Balance sheet as at 2024-11-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2003-10-27
- Employees
- 0 (2024 accounts)
- Registered office
- 167-169 Great Portland Street, London, England, W1W 5PF
- Postcode
- W1W 5PF
- Capital
- 2,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-11-30
- Next due by
- 2027-08-31
- Financial year end
- 30 November
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-27
- Next due by
- 2027-09-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 58290 Other software publishing
Officers 1 current · 9 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB407007 (Tier 1), registered since 2022.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 5 THRIFT VIEW BEDFORD ROAD, CRANFIELD, BEDFORD, MK43 0HA | 2015-04-01 |
| OLD MILL COTTAGE S, SHILLINGTON ROAD GRAVENHURST, BEDFORD, MK45 4JE | 2014-11-15 |
| C/O MRS J WESTWOOD, OLD MILL COTTAGE OLD MILL LANE (OFF SHILLINGTON ROAD), UPPER GRAVENHURST, BEDFORD, BEDFORDSHIRE, MK45 4EJ, UNITED KINGDOM | 2013-11-01 |
| THE MERIDIAN, 4 COPTHALL HOUSE, STATION SQUARE, COVENTRY, CV1 2FL | 2011-06-14 |
| CLARK HOUSE, HIGHER KINGSBURY, MILBORNE PORT, DORSET DT9 5EB | 2005-06-22 |
| BRICKFIELD OFFICES, MAPERTON, WINCANTON, SOMERSET BA9 8EG | 2005-01-11 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 389 similar companies in W
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2003.
Competitors London
This company ranks 72 among other software publishing in London.
The class of 2003
23%
of the 241 companies in this sector incorporated in 2003 are still active today; 76% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.