ANCASTER GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-12 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+55.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£17M
+1.3% vs 2023
Employees
389
+3.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£629K
-59.6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ANCASTER GROUP LIMITED 1992-03-26 → present
- HAROLD G.COLE & CO. LIMITED 1949-12-08 → 1992-03-26
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £242,589,232 | £241,630,875 | |
| Operating profit | £3,168,049 | £2,759,313 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,555,367 | £628,755 | |
| Net profit | £1,124,536 | £445,174 | |
| Cash | £767,215 | £1,192,256 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £27,824,560 | £33,558,312 | |
| Net assets | £16,803,859 | £17,024,033 | |
| Equity | £16,803,859 | £17,024,033 | |
| Average employees | 377 | 389 | |
| Wages | £14,844,389 | £15,758,027 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.3% | 1.1% | |
| Net margin | 0.5% | 0.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.4% | 8.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 74.6% | 79.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.90x | 0.88x | |
| Interest cover | 1.94x | 1.27x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are pleased to report that the Group performed well in 2024 and traded within its facilities.”
Group structure
- ANCASTER GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Allam Motor Services Limited 100%
- Milo Engineering Works Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Group continued in its strategy of sustainable growth with the addition of a new dealership in Chislehurst for the Hyundai brand which replaces two dealerships in Catford and Dartford where the leases end in mid 2025 and early 2026 respectively.”
- “The Directors are also pleased to confirm that in October 2024 the business acquired Allam Motor Services in Epsom which is an approved Skoda dealer through an all-share purchase.”
- “The business also added Nissan to this dealership in February 2025 which completed a contiguous market area for Nissan from Slough in the West to Eltham in the East.”
- “The business also acquired a freehold storage facility in Dartford in Aug 2024 to support the dealerships in the South East of London.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADDINALL, Philip Harvey | Director | 2021-10-11 | Feb 1961 | British |
| HILL, Simon Christopher | Director | 2011-01-01 | Nov 1969 | British |
| KEELER, Carly | Director | 2024-12-01 | Mar 1986 | British |
| SHAW, Steven Charles | Director | 2025-12-01 | Oct 1968 | British |
| STRICKSON, Simon John | Director | 2023-03-06 | Sep 1977 | British |
| WOOD, Stephen Jonathan | Director | 1997-04-01 | Mar 1965 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CREAK, William Henry | Secretary | 1991-12-12 | 1994-05-27 |
| NEWMAN, David Kym | Secretary | 1994-05-27 | 2014-12-31 |
| ANDREW, Frank Ferguson | Director | — | 2020-03-20 |
| BOURNE, David Edward John | Director | 2017-02-01 | 2023-03-01 |
| BROWN, James Michael | Director | — | 2003-04-09 |
| COLE, Gladys Edna | Director | — | 1991-02-28 |
| COLE, Harold George | Director | — | 1991-02-28 |
| COLE, Robert Ernest | Director | — | 2020-08-14 |
| CREAK, William Henry | Director | 1992-01-01 | 1994-06-17 |
| GRANGE, Maurice Kenneth George | Director | — | 1993-10-01 |
| NEWMAN, David Kym | Director | — | 2014-12-31 |
| PARSONS, Derek Leslie | Director | — | 1991-03-05 |
| SMITH, Robert Kevin | Director | 2013-01-01 | 2025-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Alan Gordon Brown | Individual | ownership-of-shares-50-to-75-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-50-to-75-percent-as-trust | 2021-11-24 | Active |
| Ms Karen Jane Muir | Individual | ownership-of-shares-50-to-75-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-50-to-75-percent-as-trust | 2021-11-24 | Active |
| Mr Robert Ernest Cole | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-11-24 |
| Stephen Jonathan Wood | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 263 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-29 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2026-01-28 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2026-01-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-06-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-03-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-12-05 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 2
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
-0.4%
£242,589,232 £241,630,875
-
Cash
+55.4%
£767,215 £1,192,256
-
Net assets
+1.3%
£16,803,859 £17,024,033
-
Employees
+3.2%
377 389
-
Operating profit
-12.9%
£3,168,049 £2,759,313
-
Profit before tax
-59.6%
£1,555,367 £628,755
-
Wages
+6.2%
£14,844,389 £15,758,027
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