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answers one side of the large trades. May or may not see the other side.

In other news, Wates, one of Castleton's Castleton Maintain customers, will be using that solution on their new contract. Housing association picks Wates for �100m contract NEWS 06/04/185:30 PM BY LUKE BARRATT Midlands-based housing association Longhurst Group has appointed Wates Living Space to a maintenance contract worth close to �100million Wates picked for �100m Longhurst contract #ukhousing The 10-year contract includes repairs, void refurbishments and planned maintenance work across 16,000 of Longhurst�s 19,000 homes. Wates will be responsible for works across the Midlands and will therefore base staff in a number of cities and towns, including Birmingham, Nottingham and Lincoln. Wates has a number of similar contracts with other housing associations, but this is a relatively large one.

And another �1m+worth in red. Possibly a buy and a sell.

Apart from liquidity and so on, good on the basis that each chunk is starting again, like any other buyer. And on the heels of last trading update looking forward.

It is interesting to me though. There's �1m worth of red ones. No change in sp., so good stuff for us.

Here we go again..Total of �251k worth of delayed red ones. No change in sp. May be a sell and a buy? Done no harm before, and seem to relate to shares changing hands in bulk by agreement. Starting again at this price.

We await the full results. We now know revenue increased by 14% for last financial year, meeting broker forecasts of �21.1m., and according to the RNS may come in a little higher. Kinetic will have played it's part, and with near 100% customer retention there, now entering a full year the forecast is �26.3m revenue overall - a 24% increase. Quite a tall order, but achievable should current growth uptrend continue and the Australian market prove fruitful for the Castleton range on top of MYOB/Greentree. We shall be hearing more in June if nothing before on how things are ticking over, but we know that CHL in Australia have recently bought Castleton Mobile as part of a new 3 year contract for the MYOB/Greentree range, and there's a new MD there to push things along.

services in 2018/2019 (see Cyber Security Market Trends and Forecasts 2017-2020) Share Article: Summary from TechmarketView Castleton tops off busy year with positive update Georgina O'Toole, 08:27, 05 April 2018 Castleton Technology logoIt�s been a busy year for Castleton Technology, under CEO Dean Dickinson, who was appointed in October 2016. Having �bought and built� over the years, confidence in its position as a one-stop software shop for the social housing sector grew (see Castleton Technology: the post-integration journey), backed up by a number of multi-year contracts, including two milestone deals to deliver its integrated product suite (see Castleton: One-stop-shop success). It also acquired Kinetic Information Systems Pty (see Castleton buys and builds down under), providing an opportunity to cross-sell Castleton�s social housing software into the Australian market. The result? In a trading update for the year to 31st March 2018, Castleton confirms that revenues will be �not less than �23.1m�. That represents c14% revenue growth compared to FY17 � see Castleton revenue up 12%) � and continued double digit organic growth. Moreover, EBITDA is expected to be �not less than �5.0m� � that compared to �4.4m, so representing stability in the EBITDA margin. Strong cash generation and conversion also means debt levels have reduced. Full year results will be announced in June. We now know Castleton has had a good year. For this trend to continue into the current financial year, Castleton will need to continue positioning to cross-sell and up-sell to its existing client base. And prove that its one-stop shop solution, already a success in Ireland, has legs in the UK market.

Those are minimum figures they're quoting too - waiting for the auditors to run their eye over CFO figures, with hopefully a bit of even better to come. Nice one.

Couple meaningful out-takes on last financial year reference profitability "recording significant organic growth in both revenues and profit" "facilitating a continued reduction in the company's net debt" ( and decision to pay off MXCP options and grant performance based incentives ) They're persuing a tried and tested strategy, so there is every reason to believe the outlook summary:- "The market opportunity remains large and given the Group's now established position as a 'one stop shop' serving the social housing sector, the Board is very optimistic about the Group's continued growth prospects."

The expectation was for �23.1m revenue so they're meeting that rather than in line as they say. �4.21m was the expected pre-tax profit figure. It's very good. With longer contracts and cumulative repeat revenue, and cost base now flattened out, we should do well year on year,

Luminus merged with Places for People on Wednesday, and will now be using the Castleton Maintain solution. "PFP would benefit from an additional resource in the skills, experience and local knowledge of Luminus� employees and a new operational base in Cambridgeshire. The partnership will also provide opportunities to rationalise the management of its social housing stock and to drive efficiencies through the delivery of repairs and maintenance services."

Kestrel traded 220k shares since 9th. March - price gone up 2.75p during that time.

Castleton Chief Technical Officer driving in house development forward. Product updates, Agile version 4.2 will be released at the end of April with a range of new features, including support for the staff app on iPhones, the first phase of calculated fields and support for international Google Maps. Version 4.3 is due for release towards the end of May � this will include all of the GDPR related functionality along with a host of additional features. We are due to release Compliance, Castleton�s first �new� product will provide customers with the ability to effectively manage all of their cyclical activities and will link closely with Maintain and Agile initially. Further releases will enhance this offering to include integration with CEDRM and Castleton Scheduling. Pre-launch Compliance demonstrations are available now for booking but with limited slots, they are on a first-come, first-served basis. We have just started working on the next phase of Castleton�s new products � Castleton Plan. Plan is a scheduling system with in-built machine learning capabilities that extend enhancements passed the current thinking of scheduling platforms for repairs. This will take the comprehensive scheduling routines from Castleton Maintain and build them into a brand-new solution, with the addition of complex new processes such as dynamic scheduling. And finally, CEDRM � Castleton�s Electronic Document and Records Management platform is receiving a significant overhaul with improvements to the UI, back-end infrastructure, deployment and equally exciting � GDPR enhancements that are helping our customers on their GDPR journey. This is an exciting time at Castleton and I look forward to sharing more updates in the coming months.

Key customer relationships was something previously said to be within Smith's remit. We are pleased to welcome Claire Davidson to Castleton Managed Services. Claire brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of the social housing sector, and will be working with customers to ensure they maximise their IT investments. Claire has Prince� Project Management skills and over 13 years� experience in delivering IT and business transformation programmes and experience in leading multi-platform transformational, infrastructure implementation and business change. Previously Head of ICT at West Kent Housing Association, Claire joined Castleton in January as team lead for the Professional Services team at Castleton, overseeing the designing of infrastructure solutions and implementation. Experienced in the successful implementation of virtualisation and business continuity solutions, Claire also project managed substantial infrastructure and software projects including Unified Communications, Office365, WAN, Data Warehouse and CRM. Claire has now transitioned to Senior Relationship Manager, working alongside the sales and marketing team to enhance our position as their Trusted IT Advisors, and manage key customer relationships. Claire�s proven track record in identifying business requirements and translating these into effective technical solutions, will help our customers create and deliver effective & efficient IT strategies to their organisation and customers.

Signs of a shake up and new impetus there. Kath Cain replaced at the top. We are pleased to announce that Phillip Wilson is joining us as Managing Director Australia from Monday 26th March. Phillip has extensive experience leading fast-growing technology businesses. Phillip has worked at IXBlue and Melbourne IT leading both those businesses to deliver double-digit revenue and Ebitda growth as well as building teams that have more than doubled in size. Phillip also built a philanthropic tech startup in the US, Vuusion Inc, and most recently has been involved working for NSW Government as a trusted advisor and providing guidance and assistance with large complex IT projects that had encountered significant challenge�s. Phillip�s experience will be invaluable as we continue to grow and invest in our Australian Business and am sure you will all welcome Phillip to the Castleton Business. Kath Cain will report to Phillip leading the Service and Support Delivery capabilities of the business going forward. We would like to thank Kath for her hard work and dedication over the last 12 months in delivering a much-improved service to the existing Australian customers.

On 7th. March ( they can possibly add Castleton mobile to other existing Kinetic customers) Castleton are delighted to announce that Community Housing Limited (CHL) have signed a 3 year software and maintenance agreement in February. This agreement marks not only the first purchase of the Kinetics Housing/Greentree software since the recent acquisition but also the first in conjunction with the Castleton mobile platform. Originating in 1993, CHL is significant in both size and scope in the Australian community housing sector with a portfolio of more than 6,000 properties under management across six states including Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania. Castleton look forward to working in partnership with CHL to implement a solution that drives organisational efficiencies, improves service delivery and positively impacts CHL�s provision of end-to-end affordable housing development and long-term housing and tenancy management operations.

On 7th. March ( they can possibly add Castleton mobile to other existing Kinetic customers) Castleton are delighted to announce that Community Housing Limited (CHL) have signed a 3 year software and maintenance agreement in February. This agreement marks not only the first purchase of the Kinetics Housing/Greentree software since the recent acquisition but also the first in conjunction with the Castleton mobile platform. Originating in 1993, CHL is significant in both size and scope in the Australian community housing sector with a portfolio of more than 6,000 properties under management across six states including Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania. Castleton look forward to working in partnership with CHL to implement a solution that drives organisational efficiencies, improves service delivery and positively impacts CHL�s provision of end-to-end affordable housing development and long-term housing and tenancy management operations.

Well, in my simplistic way I think it is likely to indicate the prospect of a rising share price longer term - continued cross selling, longer hosted contracts and all that. That'll do me.

It does seem a tall order. I neither believe or not in the full monty. But there must be a concensus I should think that it's a fulfillable aspiration based on the way the're going now. It's over 3 years................