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Annual Report & Accounts 2025
Corporate Governance
Our People and Culture
Our employees have been central
to delivering the wind down and
completing the Scheme in an
orderly and responsible manner.
They have demonstrated
remarkable resilience through a
very challenging period –
providing excellent service under
challenging circumstances,
knowing that their redundancies
were unavoidable.
Kerry Penfold did a great job of
leading us through the most
difficult parts of the wind down.
We are very grateful for her
leadership and friendship.
Employee wellbeing remained a
priority, with support provided to
remaining and departing staff
throughout the wind down.
Amigo retained key staff in
governance, customer care, and
compliance roles while it still had
customers. However, they have
now all left the business.
We have endeavoured to support
departing employees through the
redundancy process.
By mid-2025, only a small team
remained to finalise wind down
and pre-liquidation activities.
By October 2025, we had only
four employees to support the
liquidators and oversee the final
tasks.
All remaining employees have
subsequently been made
redundant.
Reporting and Financial
Management
Amigo's financial reporting and
structure also adapted during the
wind down:
Overall Financial Performance
Fundraising
: As described below
under Strategic Initiatives, in April
and May 2024, following General
Meeting approval, Amigo raised
just over £235,000 in aggregate
before expenses, through a small
share placing. This extended
Amigo’s financial runway.
Intercompany loan discharge
:
Also, as described below under
Strategic Initiatives, all
intercompany debts due by
Amigo to its subsidiaries were
discharged and released
Accounting year change
: As
mentioned above, Amigo
changed its financial year-end
from 31 March to 30 September.
The reason for this change was to
defer audit costs and conserve
cash.
Ongoing cash position
: Following
the subsidiaries' liquidations,
Amigo is left with approximately
£460,000 (net) at 30 September
2025 to fund corporate costs and
explore potential transaction
opportunities.
Amigo’s future as a Listed
Company
With no lending operations and
the Scheme obligations
discharged, Amigo has become a
listed non-operating cash entity
as the Board continues to explore
possible RTO opportunities,
supported by external advisers, to
create value for shareholders.
It was clear that if a suitable
opportunity did not emerge, that
the Company will, as previously
indicated, ultimately seek
shareholders’ approval to delist
from the London Stock Exchange
and enter its own members'
voluntary liquidation.
At present, shareholders should
recognise that Amigo’s cash
reserves are limited, and unless
a viable transaction is identified,
the Company is unlikely to have
any remaining value.
Amigo PLC – Strategic Initiatives
As noted above, ahead of their
solvent liquidations, the
subsidiaries transferred
approximately £740,000 in
residual funds to Amigo. After
estimated liquidation costs
(c£290,000), around £460,000
remains to fund corporate
overheads and the continuing
examination of RTO targets.
Before this transfer, Amigo had
just £10,000 remaining from the
share placing described below.
In line with our duties under the
Companies Act, Amigo continued
to explore opportunities to
enhance shareholder value:
Share Placing April/ May 2024
A total of 95,019,200 new shares
were issued fully paid across two
tranches in April and May 2024 at
an issue price of 0.25p per share,
raising just over £235,000, before
expenses. The second tranche of
71,252,800 shares required
shareholders to waive their pre-
emption rights at a General
Meeting held in April 2024. The
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