A compliance calendar is only useful if it tells you something before the filing lands, not after. Right now, ten companies in our tracked population have accounts due inside the next 30 days — a small enough list to read one at a time, which is exactly the point: at this range, the calendar stops being a statistic and starts being a set of specific bets on specific businesses.
The near-term seven
The first seven filers are spread almost evenly across four days. EFG Food & Tech Holdings (Greater London, £137.8m turnover) leads on 26 September, the largest company on the near-term list by some distance. The next day brings A.J.Worldwide Services (Surrey, £35.0m), still carrying a “Verification Pending” status despite a filing history stretching back to 1999 — a reminder that verification status and filing longevity are tracking two different things entirely.
28 September is a three-company day: Upstream Mobile Commerce (Cheshire, £28.1m), 4Ds (Holdings) and Deepsleep Beds UK — the latter two both West Yorkshire firms, both with the same £10 search-footprint score, sitting a few ranks apart in the same county table. Then 29 September brings Stannp (Devon, £10.5m) and Passenger Clothing (Dorset, £58.8m), the second-largest name on this near-term list.
Then the pile-up
30 September is where the near-term list stops being a list and becomes a cluster: 28 companies share that single date, worth a combined £1.2bn in turnover. Three of the largest sit inside our top ten: Corsair Components (Berkshire, £276.0m, IT consultancy — the single biggest filer on the whole calendar), Transak (Greater London, £255.0m, fintech) and Ironsource UK (£118.8m, publishing). Between them those three companies alone account for roughly 41% of the combined turnover across all 39 companies in the 90-day window.
That’s the useful shape to hold in your head: a compliance calendar isn’t evenly spaced risk, it’s mostly quiet with one date doing almost all the work. Anyone using “days until next deadline” as a monitoring trigger without also weighting for date-clustering is going to be surprised on the 30th and bored every other day this month.
What the mix tells you
Seven of the ten near-term filers still carry “Verification Pending” status; only three — EFG Food & Tech, 4Ds (Holdings) and Deepsleep Beds — are fully verified. That’s worth stating plainly for a list this specific: most of the companies about to produce fresh statutory filings haven’t had their existing record independently checked yet. A filing due date is a known, mechanical event — Companies House enforces it — but verification is a judgment call this data hasn’t made for these seven yet, which is precisely the gap a compliance calendar like this is built to surface rather than paper over.
Officer counts add a second axis worth a glance, and the range across just ten companies is wider than you’d expect: EFG Food & Tech, the largest name on the list, carries 8 directors on file — a governance structure well beyond what its £137.8m turnover alone would predict. At the other end, Upstream Mobile Commerce runs on a single officer, and is also one of the seven still marked “Verification Pending.” That combination — thin governance plus unverified status, ahead of a filing deadline just two weeks out — is exactly the kind of pairing worth a closer read before the accounts land, rather than after.
Why the near-term view earns its place
Three weeks ago this space covered the 30 September cluster from the inside — what a 28-company pile-up looks like once you’re standing in the middle of it. The near-term view earns its place for a different reason: it’s the version of this calendar you’d actually act on if you had one specific week to prioritise, not ninety days of runway. EFG Food & Tech’s 26 September deadline is now twelve days out. By the time this calendar runs again, most of this list will have filed, a new near-term seven will have rotated into view, and the only entry that won’t have moved is the 30th itself — still absorbing new entities as fast as this population grows.