BARKER & STONEHOUSE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-12 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+42.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£42M
+6.6% vs 2024
Employees
386
-3.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3M
+382.4% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-02 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £78,433,000 | £81,244,000 | |
| Operating profit | £913,000 | £3,865,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £703,000 | £3,391,000 | |
| Net profit | £558,000 | £3,097,000 | |
| Cash | £3,110,000 | £4,435,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £48,153,000 | £49,764,000 | |
| Net assets | £39,276,000 | £41,856,000 | |
| Equity | £39,276,000 | £41,856,000 | |
| Average employees | 400 | 386 | |
| Wages | £13,839,000 | £13,568,000 |
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 | 2024-04-02 | 2025-03-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.2% | 4.8% | |
| Net margin | 0.7% | 3.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.9% | 7.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.97x | 1.16x | |
| Interest cover | 1.39x | 8.15x |
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
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis as they do not intend to liquidate the group or the company or to cease their operations, and as they have concluded that the group and the company's financial position means that this is realistic. They have also concluded that there are no material uncertainties that could have cast significant doubt over their ability to continue as a going concern for at least a year from the date of approval of the financial statements ("the going concern period").”
Group structure
- BARKER & STONEHOUSE LIMITED · parent
- WE Gill & Sons Limited 100%
- Sanctuary Upholstery Limited 100%
- Athenaeum Developments (Stockton) Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOAKELL, Peter | Secretary | 2000-02-01 | — | British |
| BARKER, James Thompson | Director | 1996-01-01 | May 1966 | British |
| BARKER, Richard Joseph | Director | — | Sep 1939 | British |
| SOAKELL, Peter | Director | 1996-03-29 | Aug 1964 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLISON, Frank | Secretary | — | 1994-04-21 |
| BARKER, Richard Joseph | Secretary | 1994-04-21 | 2000-02-01 |
| ALLISON, Frank | Director | — | 1994-04-21 |
| BAINBRIDGE, Anthony Allan | Director | 1996-01-01 | 2000-03-31 |
| BARKER, Mary | Director | — | 1997-03-31 |
| BUTLER, Shane David | Director | 2016-02-18 | 2023-11-30 |
| PARNELL, Richard | Director | 2001-11-02 | 2021-07-09 |
| RIDER, Victor John | Director | 2023-09-01 | 2025-04-10 |
| WILKINSON, David | Director | 2006-04-01 | 2016-10-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Richard Joseph Barker | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr James Thompson Barker | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 174 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-10 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-07-10 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-07-10 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-07-10 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part both with charge number | |
| 2024-04-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-12 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-03-06 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-02-22 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-05-30 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2022-05-16 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares |
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 2025-03-30 vs 2024-04-02
-
Turnover
+3.6%
£78,433,000 £81,244,000
-
Cash
+42.6%
£3,110,000 £4,435,000
-
Net assets
+6.6%
£39,276,000 £41,856,000
-
Employees
-3.5%
400 386
-
Operating profit
+323.3%
£913,000 £3,865,000
-
Profit before tax
+382.4%
£703,000 £3,391,000
-
Wages
-2%
£13,839,000 £13,568,000
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