Administration · 28 July 2020
Whittington Facilities (Holdings)
Main contractor · Bristol · South West England
What happened
WHITTINGTON FACILITIES (HOLDINGS) LIMITED (company number 04429126), incorporated in 2002, entered administration on 28 July 2020. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.
Why it failed
The hospital trust stopped paying the PFI unitary charge after a dispute over fire safety rectification works, ending the operating subsidiary's cash inflows; this holding company only held its shares.
- Main reason: Clients not paying or failing
- Legal claims
- Cash flow
Our summary of the reasons given in the administrators' proposals. These record the administrators' and directors' account of what happened.
An administrator, a licensed insolvency practitioner, takes control of the company to try to rescue it, sell the business or get a better result for creditors than a liquidation.
Previously known as: JARVISHELF 24 LIMITED.
Timeline
The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.
31 December 2018
Last accounts filed were made up to this date
19 months later
28 July 2020
Administration started
AccountsPayment reportInsolvency
Before it failed
The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 December 2018, 19 months before it went into administration.
The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.
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