WILLIAM G. SEARCH LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-09-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-29 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-15.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£6M
-13.6% vs 2024
Employees
121
+1.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£373K
-42.2% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £14,419,269 | £14,704,122 | |
| Operating profit | £629,775 | £354,863 | |
| Profit before tax | £646,320 | £373,391 | |
| Net profit | £462,696 | £280,895 | |
| Cash | £2,387,977 | £2,025,358 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,936,807 | £8,601,830 | |
| Net assets | £7,374,818 | £6,375,213 | |
| Equity | £7,374,818 | £6,375,213 | |
| Average employees | 119 | 121 | |
| Wages | £4,120,044 | £4,258,577 |
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 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.4% | 2.4% | |
| Net margin | 3.2% | 1.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.0% | 4.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.33x | 2.16x | |
| Interest cover | 7.69x | 8.81x |
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
- AAB Audit & Accountancy Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors are of the opinion that the company is in a strong financial position and consider the overall health of the business to be sound.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEARCH, Richard Stephen William | Secretary | 1996-04-02 | — | British |
| AUCKLAND, Gavin | Director | 2024-07-03 | Mar 1965 | British |
| SCHOFIELD, Peter | Director | 2024-07-03 | Sep 1956 | British |
| SEARCH, Richard Stephen William | Director | — | Jan 1964 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEARCH, Alice Muriel | Secretary | — | 1996-03-31 |
| SEARCH, Alice Muriel | Director | — | 1996-03-31 |
| SEARCH, James Charles | Director | — | 2024-07-03 |
| SEARCH, Mary Edna | Director | — | 1996-03-31 |
| SEARCH, Roger William | Director | — | 2013-09-20 |
| SEARCH, Rosemary Ann | Director | — | 1996-03-31 |
| SEARCH, Sally-Anne | Director | 1995-01-30 | 1996-03-31 |
| SEARCH, William George | Director | — | 1996-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search Group Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 148 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-07-11 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-07-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-07-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-07-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-03-23 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31
-
Turnover
+2%
£14,419,269 £14,704,122
-
Cash
-15.2%
£2,387,977 £2,025,358
-
Net assets
-13.6%
£7,374,818 £6,375,213
-
Employees
+1.7%
119 121
-
Operating profit
-43.7%
£629,775 £354,863
-
Profit before tax
-42.2%
£646,320 £373,391
-
Wages
+3.4%
£4,120,044 £4,258,577
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