VOSPER THORNYCROFT (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-28 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£903M
+13.3% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£93M
-79.8% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | -£761,000 | -£998,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £460,421,000 | £92,859,000 | |
| Net profit | £460,421,000 | £106,083,000 | |
| Cash | £53,000 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £803,562,000 | £909,899,000 | |
| Net assets | £796,825,000 | £902,908,000 | |
| Equity | £796,825,000 | £902,908,000 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | -0.1% | -0.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.00x | 0.06x | |
| Interest cover | -0.03x | -0.02x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Given the above assessment, the Directors have concluded that the Company has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements The Directors have not identified any material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt upon the Company's ability to continue as a going concern Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements”
Group structure
- VOSPER THORNYCROFT (UK) LIMITED · parent
- Advanced Jet Training Holdings Limited 100%
- Advanced Jet Training Limited 100%
- Airwork Limited 100%
- Ascent Flight Training (Holdings) Limited 50%
- Ascent Flight Training (Management) Limited 100%
- Ascent Flight Training (Services) Limited 100%
- Babcock Aerospace Limited 100%
- Babcock Airports Limited 100%
- Babcock B V 100%
- Babcock Corporate Services Limited 100%
- Babcock Critical Assets Holdings LLP 93%
- Babcock Critical Services Limited 100%
- Babcock Defence & Security Holdings LLP 99.11%
- Babcock Defence and Security Investments Limited 100%
- Babcock Dyncorp Limited 56%
- Babcock Fire Services (SW) Limited 100%
- Babcock Integration LLP 0.73%
- Babcock Integration LLP 10.7%
- Babcock Integration LLP 0.03%
- Babcock Integration LLP 1.44%
- Babcock Integration LLP 1.1%
- Babcock Integration LLP 4.55%
- Babcock Investments (Fire Services) Limited 100%
- Babcock IP Management (Number One) Limited 99.96%
- Babcock IP Management (Number Two) Limited 100%
- Babcock Land Defence Limited 100%
- Babcock Land Limited 100%
- Babcock Malta Limited 100%
- Babcock Marine Products Limited 100%
- Babcock Marine Training Limited 100%
- Babcock Support Services Limited 99.999%
- Babcock Vehicle Engineering Limited 100%
- Debut Services Limited 15%
- Fixed Wing Training Holdings Limited 100%
- Fixed Wing Training Limited 100%
- Flagship Fire Fighting Training Limited 100%
- Rear Crew Training Holdings Limited 100%
- Rear Crew Training Limited 100%
- Rotary Wing Training Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 31 March 2025 the Company transferred the shares in Babcock International Support Services Limited for total consideration of £26,250,000 and the shares in Babcock Engineering Limited for the total consideration of £1 to Babcock Company Holdings Limited”
- “On 16 November 2024 the Company disposed of its entire shareholding in Babcock Infrastructure Holdings LLP for £nil consideration, which results in disposal of investment of £9,300,000”
- “The Directors of the Company have considered the events within the Middle East, specifically the military action between the USA, Israel and Iran, and consider that does not give rise to any post balance sheet impact on these accounts This is an unadjusted post balance sheet event”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 25 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BABCOCK CORPORATE SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2013-02-25 | — | — |
| ABBOTT, Matthew Thomas | Director | 2024-10-15 | Mar 1978 | British |
| BORRETT, Nicholas James William | Director | 2018-01-18 | Feb 1967 | British |
| CLARK, Robert Neil George | Director | 2022-10-20 | Dec 1974 | British |
Show 25 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORRETT, Nicholas James William | Secretary | 2012-07-27 | 2013-02-25 |
| DAWES, Peter Graham | Secretary | 1996-02-01 | 2005-05-03 |
| JOWETT, Matthew Paul | Secretary | 2005-05-03 | 2010-07-09 |
| SHEARS, Stewart David | Secretary | — | 1996-02-01 |
| TELLER, Valerie Francine Anne | Secretary | 2010-07-09 | 2012-07-27 |
| BENTLEY, Christopher John | Director | 1997-04-01 | 1997-11-13 |
| BUNNEY, Andrew | Director | 2000-01-10 | 2004-02-27 |
| CAMERON, George Winston | Director | — | 2004-01-23 |
| CUNDY, Christopher John | Director | 1998-11-27 | 2010-07-09 |
| DOHERTY, Shaun, Dr | Director | 2022-05-31 | 2024-09-30 |
| GIRLING, Christopher Francis Gregory | Director | — | 1999-11-01 |
| HARRISON, Philip James | Director | 2007-12-13 | 2010-07-09 |
| JAY, Martin | Director | — | 2002-09-05 |
| LESTER, Paul John | Director | 2002-09-23 | 2010-07-09 |
| MADDEN, Terence John | Director | 1997-09-18 | 2004-07-30 |
| MARTINELLI, Franco | Director | 2010-07-09 | 2020-11-30 |
| MCINTOSH, Peter | Director | 2003-11-10 | 2006-01-31 |
| MULLIGAN, Robert Drennan | Director | 2000-01-10 | 2003-04-30 |
| ROWE, Richard Graham | Director | 2000-01-10 | 2007-03-31 |
| STAFF, Alan Robert | Director | — | 1997-03-31 |
| TAME, William | Director | 2010-07-09 | 2014-12-17 |
| TARRANT, Simon Edward | Director | 1999-10-29 | 2007-03-31 |
| TAYLOR, Richard William | Director | — | 2004-07-28 |
| URQUHART, Iain Stuart | Director | 2014-12-17 | 2022-05-31 |
| USHER, Peter | Director | — | 1995-07-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock Defence Systems Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Babcock Southern Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 255 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type audit exemption subsiduary | |
| 2025-01-04 | PARENT_ACC | accounts | Legacy | |
| 2025-01-04 | GUARANTEE2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2025-01-04 | AGREEMENT2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2024-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type audit exemption subsiduary | |
| 2024-03-06 | PARENT_ACC | accounts | Legacy | |
| 2024-03-06 | AGREEMENT2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2024-03-06 | GUARANTEE2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2023-11-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-04-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type audit exemption subsiduary | |
| 2023-04-13 | PARENT_ACC | accounts | Legacy | |
| 2023-04-13 | GUARANTEE2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2023-04-13 | AGREEMENT2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2022-10-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+13.3%
£796,825,000 £902,908,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-31.1%
-£761,000 -£998,000
-
Profit before tax
-79.8%
£460,421,000 £92,859,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers