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RNS Number : 7691G  Cambridge Nutritional Sciences PLC  10 November 2025

CAMBRIDGE NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES PLC

("CNS" or the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Half-Year Report

FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2025

 

Company remains EBITDA positive with further improvements in gross margin.

Sales and marketing teams restructured to deliver long term growth.

 

CNS (AIM: CNSL), the specialist medical diagnostics company focused on
promoting a personalised and functional approach to health and nutrition,
announces its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 September
2025.

 

H1 Financial Highlights:

·      Revenue decreased to £3.9m (H1 2025: £4.1m)

·      Gross margin increased to 67.7% (H1 2025: 65.4%), largely due to
production efficiencies & product mix

·      Adjusted EBITDA(2) £0.1m (H1 2025: £0.2m)

·      Loss before tax £0.4m (H1 2025: £0.2m)

·      Cash balance £3.6m (H1 2025: £4.5m)

 

Operational Highlights:

·      Strong performance in operations with FoodPrint® yields
continuing their improvement

·      CNS Lab productivity remains high with good year on year growth,
sales rising 8% on last year

·      Gross margin improvement driven by improved productivity and
production yields, reinforcing our focus to improve this area further

 

Outlook:

·      Company now expects full year sales to be lower than the previous
year, as sales cycles for new customers prove to be longer than anticipated

·      The sales pipeline continues to grow and the team are focused on
converting initial agreements into  orders. Our revenues in H1 have not been
helped by some regions, mainland Europe in particular, ordering less than in
previous years.

·      USA Laboratories are taking longer to commercialise FoodPrint®
but we are seeing encouraging signs.

·      The Company remains well-funded to deliver on our strategic
objectives, with cash being invested to drive new initiatives including IVDR
development and new Gut Detective® product.

·      The Board remains confident and focused on driving new and
existing sales as the primary objective for H2 and the year thereafter and is
increasingly spending more of its time on this area.

·      Out of this has come a complete restructure of the sales team and
its operations, splitting out the roles of customer service, acquisition and
customer success from the sales function so they can focus primarily on
signing new distributors and laboratories and driving more sales from existing
customers. This feeding of the funnel is paramount to future sales growth.

 

(1)Adjusted for exceptional items, amortisation of intangible assets and share
based payment charges.

 (2)See Segment Information note 2.

 

 

Commenting on the results, Carolyn Rand, Chair, said:

"The first half of this year has been frustrating. We have seen some regions
showing good growth, particularly where we are closer to the end user, whilst
other key areas have not achieved their budget.

We have therefore implemented a restructure of the sales teams to ensure more
focus is given to understand the markets more deeply and deliver on customer
needs and demands. This will take a little time to embed so we do not expect
the second half to show any significant improvements.

The positive news is that despite lower sales we have continued to grow our
gross margin by another 2.3% in the first half and that profitability in the
business continues at the adjusted EBITDA level, demonstrating the excellent
work laying the foundations in these areas over the last few years.

We remain confident in the long term future of CNSL as the new sales team
structure beds in and starts to deliver"

 

Investor presentation

James Cooper CEO and Ajay Patel CFO will provide a live presentation relating
to the Interim Results via the Investor Meet Company platform today at 16:00
GMT. The presentation is open to all existing and potential shareholders.

 

Investors can sign up to Investor Meet Company for free and add to
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The investor presentation will be available later this morning on the Company
website:

https://www.cnsplc.com/financials/presentations
(https://www.cnsplc.com/financials/presentations)

The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for
the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014

 

Contacts:

 Cambridge Nutritional Sciences
 PLC
 www.cnsplc.com (http://www.cnsplc.com)
 James Cooper, Chief Executive Officer

 Ajay Patel, Chief Financial
 Officer

 Cavendish Capital Markets
 Limited
 Tel: 020 7220 0500
 Nigel Birks / Harriet Ward (ECM)

 The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to
 constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation
 ("MAR") EU no.596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement via
 Regulatory Information Service ("RIS"), this inside information is now
 considered to be in the public domain.

About Cambridge Nutritional Sciences plc

Cambridge Nutritional Sciences plc (AIM: CNSL) is a specialist medical
diagnostics company focused on industry-leading Health and Nutrition products.

 

James Cooper, Chief Executive Statement

Overview

Sales in the first half of this fiscal year have not reached our expectations.
The key regions we have seen sales fall against last year are in mainland
Europe, Africa/Middle East and the Americas. We have experienced existing
customers ordering lower volumes and new clients taking longer to place
significant orders. This demonstrates the need to increase our pipeline
further and focus on driving  demand in these regions, as the feedback on our
product and its appeal to customers remains  positive. We are continuing to
review our position amongst our competitors to ensure we are considered a top
choice for Food IgG testing. The positive news on the sales side is that the
UK and India continue to show good growth, both markets where we have more
control of the laboratories and the sales teams. This growth demonstrates to
us the substantial opportunity that exists in the other regions.

 

 

 

Financial Performance

Revenue decreased 6.6% to £3.9m (H1 2025: £4.1m) which was below our
expectations and driven by a slowness in orders in many of our key regions. We
have seen year on year sales growth of 33% in India and 6% in the UK, with all
other regions showing decreases. The biggest fall is in Europe with some
distributors in France, Poland and Hungary ordering less in H1 than in
previous years. The European market is one of the most competitive and we are
exploring all options to ensure we continue to focus our sales coverage to the
most appropriate regions.

Revenue by product group:

 

§ Sales of FoodPrint® decreased 7% to £2.4m (H1 2025: £2.6m)

§ Sales of Food Detective® decreased 23% to £0.6m (H1 2025: £0.7m)

§ CNS Lab and other sales were up 9% to £0.9m (H1 2025: £0.9m)

 

Gross profit from operations decreased to £2.6m (H1 2025: £2.7m) with an
improved gross margin percentage of 67.7% (H1 2025: 65.4%). The increase in
margin principally reflects the continued improvements in production yields as
well as a higher proportion of high margin FoodPrint® tests in the product
mix. Despite the competition and pressure to reduce price, the Board is
confident that Food Print® margins can continue at this improved level in H2
FY25 as the Company benefits from the enhanced operational efficiencies.

 

Overheads increased by 4% to £2.6m (H1 2025: £2.5m). This increase is
directly attributed to an increase in investment in our sales, marketing and
leadership team from H2 FY25 showing full year effect in H1 FY26. We do
anticipate some of these costs will increase in the second half as the
restructuring work referred to below in more detail will most likely incur
some additional costs.

 

The Group continues to consider EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA (adjusted for
exceptional items and share-based payments) as being the appropriate measures
of profitability being aligned with the cash generating activities of the
business. The adjusted EBITDA was £0.1m (H1 2025:  £0.2m). The £0.1m for
exceptional items is related to compensation for loss of office and share
related payments.

 

The cash balance on 30 September 2025 was £3.6m (H1 2025: £4.5m, 31 March
2025: £4.9m) and fell from the March 2025 year-end position as a result of
outflows from working capital (£0.7m), capital expenditure predominantly in
new machinery/systems (£0.4m) and financing activities (£0.1m). The capital
expenditure includes the purchase of a new machine to manufacture FoodPrint
 as well as investment in our new LIMS system, work on our new website and
IVDR project. In the previous financial year we experienced a similar
reduction in cash from March year end to September half year.

 

Operational Update

The historic work undertaken in creating efficiencies in producing our tests
and servicing our test results in the laboratory in the UK, has resulted in
excellent performance improvements in operations, and updates to sample
collection packs, upgrading our Laboratory Information Management System
(LIMS)system and processes and related projects demonstrates the urgency with
which this work continues. The 2.3% gross margin increase is a direct result
of this work. We are very proud of our operations team based in Littleport and
are confident they will deliver even more improvements for the remaining
year.

The MyHealth Tracker App we have been operating has been used less frequently
as customers have started to use their own Apps. This App has therefore been
suspended for new customers whilst we explore what additional and new
information our new LIMS system can produce for the benefit of all our
customers.

 

Strategic Priorities

Driving more sales from existing and new customers is our number one priority.

The Board asked management to undertake a restructure of the existing Sales
team to improve focus and attention on customers, and reduce the span of
activities undertaken by our salespeople. The restructure has been completed
and involved separating the customer service and customer success functions
from the sales team so once a new or existing client signs a contract or
places orders they can be serviced by these teams, with the sales team moving
onto the next customer. These teams will help with new installations, overseas
stock levels and ordering requirements as well as any other issues that may
arise. They will work closely with distributors and laboratories to make using
our test processes and systems a smooth and easy operation. The customer
acquisition team, who are based in the regions, will help drive more demand
for our products in the overseas regions directly into these laboratories.
This restructure commenced recently and we will let you know in our next
update at year end how it is working. At the moment the plans are to rearrange
existing teams to complete this restructure with the additional headcount
needed being one or two people at most.

 

In terms of regions of focus, the UK, Europe, Americas and Asia (especially
India) remain our key markets. Progress in the Americas is much slower than we
had hoped, but we remain confident this market will deliver good growth in the
future. The laboratories we have signed are taking longer than planned to
commence our tests, but we have some local support, as part of the customer
acquisition team, to help drive more traffic into the laboratories for our
tests. We recently changed this local support as the previous support was not
delivering.

 

We saw robust growth in our UK market, with 6% growth in the first half on
last year coming on top of the 8% growth reported last year. This growth is
coming mainly from the direct consumer demand serviced by our white-label
partners, and demonstrates the increasing awareness of how direct consumer
marketing generates more demand for our tests in the UK. We believe this bodes
well for overseas markets also. In India, the business has grown 33% in
sterling value in the first half which translates to over 40% in local
currency, demonstrating how well our tests are received in that markets where
our local sales team are growing fast to drive even more growth. At over 10%
of our overall sales, this market is one we are looking for even more sales
growth.

 

In August we launched a new product called Gut Detective® which is for our
UK practitioner market only at the outset. Gut Detective is a comprehensive
stool biomarker panel used by practitioners to investigate key areas of gut
health, including inflammation, digestive enzyme production and intestinal
permeability. This noninvasive testing solution helps identify underlying
imbalances and supports targeted, personalised treatment plans. Gut Detective
combines multiple functional stool markers into a single, convenient panel. It
provides a detailed picture of a patient's digestive health, helping to
uncover potential causes of persistent symptoms that may not show up on
routine tests. Each test is CE-marked and analysed in the CNSLab, ensuring
trusted clinical accuracy. It's an ideal tool for practitioners specialising
in nutrition, gut health, functional medicine, or integrative care.

 

Current trading and Outlook

We acknowledge sales in the first half have been disappointing as the Company
builds its sales focus to operate a multi-channel multi-regional approach. We
have seen the difficulties in some of our larger regions and are expecting a
slow recovery in these areas, accordingly our full year revenues will show a
modest decline compared to the prior year. However gross margin is expected to
hold strong and with careful cost management we expect to remain profitable
for the full year at the adjusted EBITDA level. That will require a lot of
careful management of the team and costs to achieve, without taking our focus
off the need to deliver more sales and orders.

As a result of the above, we anticipate the cash position will decline in H2,
as further capital expenditure is expected as we continue to invest in the
long term potential of the business. However, we believe we have more than
sufficient working capital to execute on our strategy and return the Company
to growth with a healthy gross margin.

The Board's expectations are that the medium term growth opportunities remain
significant and the Company is well capitalised to deliver growth in the years
ahead.

 

 

Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income

for the six months ended 30 September 2025

                                                                                     6 months ended.     6 months ended.     12 months ended.

                                                                                     30 September 2025   30 September 2024   31 March 2025
                                                                               Note  £'000               £'000               £'000

 Revenue                                                                       2     3,863               4,134               8,330
 Cost of sales                                                                       (1,248)             (1,432)             (2,889)
 Gross profit                                                                        2,615               2,702               5,441
 Administration costs                                                                (2,169)             (2,263)             (4,680)
 Selling and marketing costs                                                         (839)               (617)               (1,436)
 Other income                                                                        96                  26                  280
 Operating loss before exceptional items                                             (297)               (152)               (395)
 Exceptional items                                                                   (138)               (117)               1,831
 Operating profit/(loss) after exceptional items                                     (435)               (269)               1,436
 Finance income/(costs)                                                        3     38                  73                  130
 Profit/(Loss) before taxation                                                       (397)               (196)               1,566
 Tax credit                                                                    4     -                   -                   -
 Profit/(Loss) for the period                                                        (397)               (196)               1,566
 Other comprehensive profit/(losses) to be reclassified to profit and loss in
 subsequent periods
 Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations                           (33)                (17)                (25)
 Other comprehensive income for the period                                           (33)                (17)                (25)
 Total comprehensive profit/(losses) for the period                                  (430)               (213)

                                                                                                                             1,541
 Earnings per share (EPS)
 Basic and diluted EPS on profit/(loss) for the period                         5     (0.2)p              (0.1)p              0.7p

 

Consolidated Balance Sheet

as at 30 September 2025

                                                                  30 September 2025   30 September 2024   31 March 2025
                                                            Note  £'000              £'000                £'000
 ASSETS
 Non-current assets
 Intangibles                                                6     3,805              4,039                3,821
 Property, plant, and equipment                             7     670                485                  535
 Right of use assets                                        7     175                76                   226
 Deferred taxation                                                1,406              1,400                1,406
 Total non-current assets                                         6,056              6,000                5,988
 Current assets
 Inventories                                                      729                776                  829
 Trade and other receivables                                      2,311              2,208                1,965
 Cash and cash equivalents                                        3,594              4,520                4,868
 Total current assets                                             6,634              7,504                7,662
 Total assets                                                     12,690             13,504               13,650

 EQUITY AND LIABILITIES
 Equity
 Share capital                                                    10,255             10,255               10,255
 Share premium                                                    25,072             25,072               25,072
 Retained deficit                                                 (24,154)           (25,710)             (23,833)
 Translation reserve                                              (118)              (77)                 (85)
 Total equity                                                     11,055             9,540                11,409

 Liabilities
 Non-current liabilities
 Long-term borrowings                                             -                  -                    -
 Lease liabilities                                                75                 -                    126
 Deferred income                                                  -                  2,500                -
 Total non-current liabilities                                    75                 2,500                126
 Current liabilities
 Short-term borrowings                                            62                 3                    123
 Lease liabilities                                                100                76                   100
 Trade and other payables                                         1,398              1,203                1,892
 Total current liabilities                                        1,560              1,282                2,115
 Liabilities directly associated with assets held for sale        -                  182                  -
 Total liabilities                                                1,635              3,964                2,241
 Total equity and liabilities                                     12,690             13,504               13,650

 

 

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity

for the six months ended 30 September 2025

                                                            Share    Share    Retained  Translation
                                                            capital  premium  deficit   reserve      Total
                                                            £'000    £'000    £'000     £'000        £'000
 Balance at 31 March 2024                                   10,255   25,072   (25,585)  (60)         9,682
 Loss for the period to 30 September 2024                   -        -        (196)     -            (196)
 Other comprehensive losses - net exchange adjustments      -        -        -         (17)         (17)
 Total comprehensive losses for the period                  -        -        (196)     (17)         (213)
 Share-based payments                                       -        -        71        -            71
 Balance at 30 September 2024                               10,255   25,072   (25,710)  (77)         9,540
 Profit for the period to 31 March 2025                     -        -        1,762     -            1,762
 Other comprehensive losses - net exchange adjustments      -        -        -         (8)          (8)
 Total comprehensive income/(losses) for the period         -        -        1,762     (8)          1,754
 Issue of share capital                                     -        -        -         -            -
 Share-based payments                                       -        -        115       -            115
 Balance at 31 March 2025                                   10,255   25,072   (23,833)  (85)         11,409
 Loss for the period to 30 September 2025                   -        -        (397)     -            (397)
 Other comprehensive income - net exchange adjustments      -        -        -         (33)         (33)
 Total comprehensive (losses)/income for the period         -        -        (397)     (33)         (430)
 Share-based payments                                       -        -        75        -            75
 Balance at 30 September 2025                               10,255   25,072   (24,154)  (118)        11,055

 

 

Consolidated Cash Flow Statement

for the six months ended 30 September 2025

                                                                             6 months ended      6 months ended      12 months ended

                                                                             30 September 2025   30 September 2024   31 March 2025
                                                                             £'000               £'000               £'000
 Cash flows generated from operations
 Loss for the period                                                         (397)               (196)               1,566
 Adjustments for:
  Depreciation                                                               98                  90                  179
  Amortisation of intangible assets                                          226                 218                 436
  Share-based payments                                                       75                  71                  186
  Finance costs                                                              (38)                (73)                (130)
 Cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities before working capital      (36)                110
 movement

                                                                                                                     2,237
 (Increase)/decrease in trade and other receivables                          (346)               (384)               (141)
 (Increase)/decrease in inventories                                          100                 (169)               (222)
 Decrease in trade and other payables                                        (494)               (120)               569
 Change in deferred income                                                   -                   -                   (2,500)
 Cash (outflow)/inflow from operating activities                             (776)               (563)               (57)
 Investing activities
 Finance income                                                              45                  82                  147
 Transfer from/(to) short-term deposits                                      -                   2,501               2,501
 Purchase of property, plant, and equipment                                  (183)               (137)               (225)
 Purchase of intangible assets                                               (210)               (157)               (157)
 Net cash inflow/(outflow) in investing activities                           (348)               2,289               2,266
 Financing activities
 Finance costs                                                               -                   -                   -
 Principal portion of asset finance payments                                 (61)                (78)                (140)
 Interest portion of asset finance payments                                  (3)                 (4)                 (7)
 Principal portion of lease liability payments                               (50)                (50)                (101)
 Interest portion of lease liability payments                                (4)                 (5)                 (10)
 Net cash outflow from financing activities                                  (118)               (137)               (258)
 Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents                        (1,242)             1,589               1,950
 Effects of exchange rate movements                                          (32)                (12)                (25)
 Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period                            4,868               2,943               2,943
 Cash and cash equivalents at end of the period                              3,594               4,520               4,868

 

Notes to the Interim Report

for the six months ended 30 September 2025

1. BASIS OF PREPARATION

For the purpose of preparing the 31 March 2025 annual financial statements the
Directors used IFRS as adopted by the EU and in accordance with the AIM Rules
issued by the London Stock Exchange. In preparing these interim financial
statements, the accounting policies used in the Group's Annual Report for the
year ended 31 March 2025 have been applied consistently. The Group has not
applied IAS 34 Interim Financial Reporting, which is not mandatory for AIM
companies, in the preparation of these interim financial statements.

The interim financial statements are unaudited. The information shown in the
consolidated balance sheet as at 30 September 2025 does not constitute
statutory accounts as defined in Section 435 of the Companies Act 2006 and the
information in respect of the year ended 31 March 2025 has been extracted from
the Group's 2025 Annual Report which has been filed with the Registrar of
Companies. The report of the auditors on the financial statements contained
within the Group's 2025 Annual Report was unqualified and did not contain a
statement under sections 498 (2) and 498 (3) of Chapter 3, Part 16 of the
Companies Act 2006. These interim financial statements were approved by the
Board of Directors on 10 November 2025.

 

2. SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Health and Nutrition division specialises in the research, development,
and production of kits to aid the detection of immune reactions to food. It
also provides clinical analysis to the general public, clinics, and health
professionals.

The Corporate segment consists of centralised corporate costs which are not
allocated to the trading activities of the Group.

Inter segment transfers or transactions are entered into under the normal
commercial conditions that would be available to unrelated third parties.

2. SEGMENT INFORMATION (CONTINUED)

 

Business segment information

                                                   Health and
                                                   Nutrition   Corporate  Total
 6 months to 30 September 2025                     £'000       £'000      £'000
 Revenue                                           3,959       -          3,959
 Other income                                      (96)        -          (96)
 Total revenue                                     3,863       -          3,863
 Cost of sales                                     (1,248)     -          (1,248)
 Gross profit                                      2,615       -          2,615
 Operating costs                                   (2,408)     (504)      (2,912)
 Operating profit/(loss) before exceptional items  207         (504)      (297)
 Exceptional items                                 -           (138)      (138)
 Operating profit/(loss) after exceptional items   207         (642)      (435)
 Depreciation                                      98          -          98
 Amortisation                                      226         -          226
 EBITDA                                            531         (642)      (111)
 Exceptional items                                 -           138        138
 Share-based payment charges                       -           75         75
 Adjusted EBITDA                                   531         (429)      102
 Share-based payment charges                       -           (75)       (75)
 Depreciation                                      (98)        -          (98)
 Amortisation                                      (226)       -          (226)
 Interest income                                   38          -          38
 Exceptional costs                                             (138)      (138)
 Profit/(loss) before tax                          245         (642)      (397)
 Exceptional items                                             138        138
 Share-based payment charges                       -           75         75
 Amortisation                                      68          -          68
 Adjusted profit/(loss) before tax                 313         (429)      (116)

 

 

2. SEGMENT INFORMATION (CONTINUED)

 

                                                   Health and
                                                   Nutrition   Corporate  Total
 6 months to 30 September 2024                     £'000       £'000      £'000
 Revenue                                           4,160       -          4,160
 Other income                                      (26)        -          (26)
 Total revenue                                     4,134       -          4,134
 Cost of sales                                     (1,432)     -          (1,432)
 Gross profit                                      2,702       -          2,702
 Operating costs                                   (2,153)     (701)      (2,854)
 Operating profit/(loss) before exceptional items  549         (701)      (152)
 Exceptional items                                 (49)        (68)       (117)
 Operating profit/(loss) after exceptional items   500         (769)      (269)
 Depreciation                                      90          -          90
 Amortisation                                      218         -          218
 EBITDA                                            808         (769)      39
 Exceptional items                                 49          68         117
 Share-based payment charges                       -           71         71
 Adjusted EBITDA                                   857         (630)      227
 Share-based payment charges                       -           (71)       (71)
 Depreciation                                      (90)        -          (90)
 Amortisation                                      (218)       -          (218)
 Net finance costs                                 73          -          73
 Exceptional costs                                 (49)        (68)       (117)
 Profit/(loss) before tax                          573         (769)      (196)
 Exceptional items                                 49          68         117
 Share-based payment charges                       -           71         71
 Amortisation                                      60          -          60
 Adjusted profit/(loss) before tax                 682         (630)      52

 

The adjusted profit/(loss) before taxation is a key measure of the Group's
trading performance used by the Directors. The reported numbers are non-GAAP
measures

2. SEGMENT INFORMATION (CONTINUED)

 

                             6 months to         6 months to

                             30 September 2025   30 September 2024
                             £'000               £'000
 Revenues
 UK                          894                 840
 Rest of Europe              707                 952
 Americas                    737                 805
 India                       402                 302
 Asia                        796                 826
 Africa and the Middle East  327                 408
                             3,863               4,134

 

                         6 months to         6 months to         inc/(dec)

                         30 September 2025   30 September 2024
                         £'000               £'000                %
 FoodPrint®              2,380               2,564               (7)%
 Food Detective®         554                 717                 (23)%
 CNS laboratory service  910                 842                 8%
 Food ELISA/other        19                  11                  73%
                         3,863               4,134               (7)%

 

 

3. FINANCE INCOME/(COSTS)

                                                           6 months to         6 months to

                                                           30 September 2025   30 September 2024
 Continuing operations                                     £'000               £'000
 Interest receivable                                       45                  82
 Interest payable on bank overdraft                        -                   -
 Interest payable on lease liabilities                     (4)                 (5)
 Interest on hire purchase and asset finance arrangements  (3)                 (4)
                                                           38                  73

 

 

4. TAXATION

                                       6 months to         6 months to

                                       30 September 2025   30 September 2024
 Continuing operations                 £'000               £'000
 Tax credited in the income statement
 Current tax - current year            -                   -
 Current tax - prior year adjustment   -                   -
 Deferred tax - current year           -                   -
 Deferred tax - prior year adjustment  -                   -
                                       -                   -

 

 

4. TAXATION (continued)

 

 Reconciliation of total tax credit
 Factors affecting the tax credit for the period:         £'000   £'000
 Loss taxable                                             (397)   (196)

 Effective rate of taxation                               25%     25%
 Loss before tax multiplied by the effective rate of tax  (99)    (49)
 Effects of:
 Deferred tax asset not recognised                        99      49
 Tax credit for the period                                -       -

 

 

5. EARNINGS PER SHARE

                                                   6 months to         6 months to

                                                   30 September 2025   30 September 2024
                                                   £'000               £'000
 Loss attributable to equity holders of the Group  (397)               (196)

 

                                            2025         2024
                                            Number       Number
 Weighted average number of shares          238,270,660  237,950,660
 Share options                              -            -
 Diluted weighted average number of shares  238,270,660  237,950,660

 

The number of shares in issue at the period end was 237,950,660. Basic
earnings per share are calculated by dividing profit for the year attributable
to ordinary equity holders of the Group by the weighted average number of
ordinary shares outstanding during the year.

Diluted earnings per share are calculated by dividing the loss attributable to
ordinary equity holders of the Group by the weighted average number of
ordinary shares outstanding during the year plus the weighted average number
of ordinary shares that would be issued on the conversion of all the dilutive
potential ordinary shares into ordinary shares. Diluting events are excluded
from the calculation when the average market price of ordinary shares is lower
than the exercise price.

Adjusted earnings per share on loss for the period

The Group presents adjusted earnings per share which is calculated by taking
adjusted loss before taxation and adding the tax credit in order to allow
shareholders to understand better the elements of financial performance in the
year, so as to facilitate comparison with prior periods and to assess better
trends in financial performance.

                                                            6 months to         6 months to

                                                            30 September 2025   30 September 2024
                                                            £'000               £'000
 Loss attributable to equity holders of the Group           (397)               (196)
 Exceptional items                                          138                 117
 Amortisation of intangible assets                          68                  60
 Share-based payment charges                                75                  71
 Adjusted loss attributable to equity holders of the Group  (116)               52

 

 Adjusted EPS on loss for the period  -0.0p  0.0p

 

Adjusted loss before taxation, which is a key measure of the Group's trading
performance used by the Directors, is derived by taking statutory loss before
taxation and adding back exceptional items, amortisation of intangible assets
(excluding development costs) and share-based payment charges.

 

6. INTANGIBLES

                                              Licences/  Technology  Customer       Development
                                    Goodwill  software   assets      relationships  costs        Total
                                    £'000     £'000      £'000       £'000          £'000        £'000
 Cost
 At 31 March 2024                   3,017     1,736      1,975       100            9,259        16,087
 Additions                          -         158        -           -              -            158
 At 30 September 2024               3,017     1,894      1,975       100            9,259        16,245
 Additions                          -         -          -           -              -            -
 Currency translation               -         (1)        -           -              -            (1)
 At 31 March 2025                   3,017     1,893      1,975       100            9,259        16,244
 Additions                          -         47         -           -              163          210
 At 30 September 2025               3,017     1,940      1,975       100            9,422        16,454

 Accumulated amortisation
 At 31 March 2024                   -         1,669      1,638       100            8,581        11,988
 Amortisation charge in the period  -         10         50          -              158          218
 At 30 September 2024               -         1,679      1,688       100            8,739        12,206
 Amortisation charge in the period  -         12         49          -              157          218
 Currency translation               -         (1)        -           -              -            (1)
 At 31 March 2025                   -         1,690      1,737       100            8,896        12,423
 Amortisation charge in the period  -         18         50          -              158          226
 At 30 September 2025               -         1,708      1,787       100            9,054        12,649

 Net book value
 At 30 September 2025               3,017     232        188         -              368          3,805
 At 31 March 2025                   3,017     203        238         -              363          3,821
 At 30 September 2024               3,017     215        287         -              520          4,039

 

 

7. FIXED ASSETS

                           Right of use  Leasehold     Plant and
                           assets        improvements  machinery  Total
 Consolidated              £'000         £'000         £'000      £'000
 Cost
 At 31 March 2024          202           401           1,420      2,023
 Additions                 -             -             137        137
 At 30 September 2024      202           401           1,557      2,160
 Additions                 201           -             88         289
 At 31 March 2025          403           401           1,645      2,449
 Additions                 -             8             175        183
 At 30 September 2025      403           409           1,820      2,632

 Accumulated depreciation
 At 31 March 2024          76            397           1,036      1,509
 Charge in the period      50            1             39         90
 At 30 September 2024      126           398           1,075      1,599
 Charge in the period      51            2             36         89
 At 31 March 2025          177           400           1,111      1,688
 Charge in the period      50            2             46         98
 At 30 September 2025      227           402           1,157      1,785

 Net book value
 At 30 September 2025      176           8             663        846
 At 31 March 2025          226           1             534        761
 At 30 September 2024      76            3             482        561

 

 

 

 

 

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