Annual accounts
Total Exemption Full accounts
31/08/2027Filing deadline
- Next accounts made up to
- 30/11/2026
- Last accounts made up to
- 30/11/2025
Reference data exactly as held at Companies House.
The 4 most recent documents filed at Companies House.
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2025-11-30
Confirmation statement made on 2026-01-17 with no updates
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2024-11-30
Cessation of Barrie Walter Bates as a person with significant control on 2024-11-26
What Pre-Score will tell you

The two filings Companies House requires every year, and where each one stands against its deadline today.
Total Exemption Full accounts
31/08/2027Filing deadline
Confirms the registry record is up to date
31/01/2027Filing deadline
The latest figures IDENT MACHINES LIMITED filed. Okredo holds filed accounts data for 2021–2025; the year-by-year record is on the financials page.
Net Assets
2024: £1.15M
Total Assets
2024: £1.36M
Cash in Bank
2024: £396.00K
Total Liabilities
2024: £213.28K
Employees
2024: 15
Of the 4 measures with an earlier filing to compare against, 4 fell. Total assets moved furthest, down 37.61% on 2024. See the full financial analysis for IDENT MACHINES LIMITED.
The full financial record
Four ways through IDENT MACHINES LIMITED's filed accounts — the year-by-year numbers, the compound rates and the ratios behind them.
Headcount as reported to Companies House for 2021–2025.
| Year | Employees | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | -3 |
| 2024 | 15 | 0 |
| 2023 | 15 | -1 |
| 2022 | 16 | -4 |
| 2021 | 20 | – |
Reported employee count decreased from 20 in 2021 to 12 in 2025. See how headcount moved alongside the reported financials.
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Directors, secretaries and other appointed officers, with the period each has served.
| Person | Role | Period | Connected companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director | 02/09/2021–Present | 0 | |
| Director | 01/04/1998–Present | 0 | |
| Director | 06/04/1993–28/10/1994 | 0 | |
| Secretary | 02/09/2021–Present | 0 | |
| Secretary | 14/03/2002–02/09/2021 | 0 | |
| Director | 01/04/1998–02/09/2021 | 0 |
Individuals or entities with significant control over the company, as declared to Companies House.
| Person | Period | Connected companies |
|---|---|---|
| 29/03/2017–Present | 0 | |
| 26/11/2024–Present | 0 | |
| 29/03/2017–26/11/2024 | 0 |
Every document on the Companies House record, newest first.
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2025-11-30
Confirmation statement made on 2026-01-17 with no updates
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2024-11-30
Cessation of Barrie Walter Bates as a person with significant control on 2024-11-26
Director's details changed for Mr Christopher Barrie Bates on 2025-01-16
Change of details for Mr Christopher Barrie Bates as a person with significant control on 2025-01-16
Confirmation statement made on 2025-01-17 with updates
Notification of Christopher Barrie Bates as a person with significant control on 2024-11-26
Termination of appointment of Barrie Walter Bates as a director on 2022-02-12
Confirmation statement made on 2024-03-29 with no updates
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2023-11-30
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2022-11-30
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A short description of the company, written from its Companies House record.
IDENT MACHINES LIMITED is a private limited company registered in the United Kingdom, based in Unit 5 Stapleton Lane, Barwell, Leicester LE9 8HE. Companies House classifies its business as Manufacture of other general-purpose machinery n.e.c.. It has been on the register for 48 years 4 months.
The register currently records it as active. Its 2025 accounts report net assets of £766.68K and 12 employees.
Answered from this company's own registry record and filed figures.
Companies House records IDENT MACHINES LIMITED under one registered business activity: Manufacture of other general-purpose machinery n.e.c. (28.29 - SIC 2007).
IDENT MACHINES LIMITED is recorded as active on the Companies House register, and has been on it since 08/05/1978.
The most recent accounts Okredo holds cover 2025 and report net assets of £766.68K, total assets of £848.14K, cash in bank of £254.18K and total liabilities of £81.46K.
The most recent document on the record is dated 12/03/2026: Total exemption full accounts made up to 2025-11-30, 6 months ago.
On the current registry record, accounts are due by 31/08/2027 and the next confirmation statement is due by 31/01/2027.
Companies House lists 6 officers (3 currently in post) and 3 people with significant control (2 current).