ROBERT WELCH DESIGNS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-24 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£9M
+21.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£16M
+7.9% vs 2024
Employees
76
+4.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4M
+16.2% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £21,852,567 | £23,044,498 | |
| Operating profit | £3,688,531 | £4,247,299 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,795,869 | £4,410,809 | |
| Net profit | £2,931,073 | £3,413,872 | |
| Cash | £7,165,502 | £8,697,413 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,645,778 | £15,794,385 | |
| Net assets | £14,498,281 | £15,642,153 | |
| Equity | £14,498,281 | £15,642,153 | |
| Average employees | 73 | 76 | |
| Wages | £3,079,972 | £3,164,364 |
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 16.9% | 18.4% | |
| Net margin | 13.4% | 14.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 25.2% | 26.9% | |
| Current ratio | 4.40x | 3.68x | |
| Interest cover | 72.25x | 165.87x |
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
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Current forecasts indicate that the Company expects to be able to meet its day to day working capital requirements and to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Having regard to the above, the Directors continue to believe the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, Paul Anthony John | Secretary | 2025-04-11 | — | — |
| SMITH, Edward Aden Derek | Director | 2023-11-27 | Nov 1973 | British |
| WELCH, Alan Rupert | Director | — | Apr 1963 | British |
| WRIGHT, John Henry | Director | 2023-11-27 | Nov 1964 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELCH, Alan Rupert | Secretary | 1992-12-11 | 2009-10-01 |
| WELCH, Alice Jane | Secretary | 2009-10-01 | 2025-04-11 |
| WELCH, Patricia Marguerite | Secretary | — | 1992-12-11 |
| WELCH, Alice Jane | Director | 1998-04-17 | 2025-04-11 |
| WELCH, Patricia Marguerite | Director | — | 2014-01-20 |
| WELCH, Robert Radford | Director | — | 2000-03-15 |
| WELCH, William Leonard | Director | 2000-04-13 | 2005-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Alice Jane Welch | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr Alan Rupert Welch | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 126 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-11-28 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-11-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-15 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-11 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-28 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-11-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-01-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-23 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-03-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-11 | 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 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
+5.5%
£21,852,567 £23,044,498
-
Cash
+21.4%
£7,165,502 £8,697,413
-
Net assets
+7.9%
£14,498,281 £15,642,153
-
Employees
+4.1%
73 76
-
Operating profit
+15.1%
£3,688,531 £4,247,299
-
Profit before tax
+16.2%
£3,795,869 £4,410,809
-
Wages
+2.7%
£3,079,972 £3,164,364
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