CENTURION SAFETY PRODUCTS LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-16 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+14.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
-10.3% vs 2023
Employees
100
-1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£598K
-1,096.7% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CENTURION SAFETY PRODUCTS LTD 1997-04-30 → present
- THETFORD MOULDED PRODUCTS LIMITED 1879-05-16 → 1997-04-30
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £13,532,000 | £12,299,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | £13,000 | -£646,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £60,000 | -£598,000 | |
| Net profit | — | £376,000 | -£598,000 | |
| Cash | — | £1,898,000 | £2,176,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £7,990,000 | £7,260,000 | |
| Net assets | — | £7,835,000 | £7,027,000 | |
| Equity | — | £7,835,000 | £7,027,000 | |
| Average employees | — | 101 | 100 | |
| Wages | — | £3,875,000 | £3,850,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 0.1% | -5.3% | |
| Net margin | — | 2.8% | -4.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 0.2% | -8.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 24.7% | 28.0% | |
| Current ratio | — | 2.81x | 2.53x | |
| Interest cover | — | 0.62x | -12.67x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Saffery LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The balance sheet is sound, and the company operates with a substantial level of headroom. The Directors have carefully prepared trading forecasts projected 12 months ahead and are confident that the Company will be able to meet liabilities as they fall due.”
Group structure
- CENTURION SAFETY PRODUCTS LTD · parent
- Martindale Protection Limited 100%
- Thetford Moulded Products Limited 100%
- Thetford Moulded Products Trustees Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During 2024 the business recognised an impairment to its ERP system of £370,000, due to the nature of its initial implementation.”
- “The directors have chosen to reduce the risk to the company by starting the process of divesting the scheme to an external insurance company. Costs of this divestment in the year totalled £225,000.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 28 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADLER, Michael Alan | Director | 2022-05-26 | Nov 1962 | British |
| DAVIS, James Edward Coleman | Director | 2013-05-10 | Sep 1965 | British |
| HOLDHAM, David | Director | 2022-05-26 | Mar 1951 | British |
| KEOGH, Jason Mark | Director | 2023-12-01 | Nov 1973 | British |
| LOCK, Allan Martin | Director | 2023-12-01 | Apr 1970 | British |
| MATTHEWS, Scott Ryan | Director | 2024-04-02 | Sep 1970 | British |
Show 28 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPPS, Terence Antony | Secretary | — | 2017-04-28 |
| ZANONE, Chris John | Secretary | 2017-05-01 | 2022-07-12 |
| ADLER, David Harold | Director | 1995-12-15 | 2014-05-22 |
| ADLER, Douglas Jeffrey | Director | — | 2002-05-01 |
| ADLER, John James | Director | — | 2000-12-31 |
| ATKINSON, Jeremy Paul | Director | 2002-03-11 | 2007-01-12 |
| ATKINSON, Nigel John Bewley | Director | 2009-06-01 | 2020-03-31 |
| BAKER, Frederick Clare | Director | 1996-10-09 | 2005-06-09 |
| BROWN, Robert Iain Cameron | Director | 2009-12-14 | 2022-05-26 |
| CARTWRIGHT, Stuart | Director | 2019-04-23 | 2020-10-05 |
| CHAPMAN, Keith Anthony | Director | 2020-02-03 | 2025-09-30 |
| CLEMENTS, Terence Alexander | Director | 2001-09-01 | 2009-07-15 |
| DAVIS, William Edward | Director | — | 2013-05-09 |
| EPPS, Terence Antony | Director | — | 2017-04-28 |
| FORREST, Jacques William | Director | — | 2014-08-17 |
| GORDON, Andrew Mark | Director | 2017-01-01 | 2018-11-30 |
| HALL, Stephen John | Director | 2014-05-23 | 2020-07-31 |
| HOLDHAM, David | Director | 1996-08-14 | 2016-03-23 |
| HUMPHREYS, Amanda Jane, Dr | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2018-03-31 |
| HURT, Nicholas David | Director | 2020-11-25 | 2023-04-21 |
| MELLING, Nichola | Director | 2022-05-26 | 2023-08-31 |
| NEUMANN, Steve | Director | 2017-09-04 | 2018-11-23 |
| ORMEROD, Simon John Charlton | Director | 1996-01-02 | 1996-12-20 |
| PARKINSON, Del | Director | 2007-02-01 | 2017-02-24 |
| WARD, Jeffrey Graham | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2020-04-30 |
| WILDING, David Kenneth | Director | — | 2001-02-21 |
| WORMALL, David John | Director | — | 1996-03-28 |
| ZANONE, Christopher John | Director | 2017-05-01 | 2022-07-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 183 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-09 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-10-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-02-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-06-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-16 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2024-05-16 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2024-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-05-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-10-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-9.1%
£13,532,000 £12,299,000
-
Cash
+14.6%
£1,898,000 £2,176,000
-
Net assets
-10.3%
£7,835,000 £7,027,000
-
Employees
-1%
101 100
-
Operating profit
-5,069.2%
£13,000 -£646,000
-
Profit before tax
-1,096.7%
£60,000 -£598,000
-
Wages
-0.6%
£3,875,000 £3,850,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers