ORBIT DEVELOPMENTS (MANCHESTER) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-01 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£36M
+11.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£73M
+4.1% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£4M
-15% 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 | £5,721,823 | £5,626,709 | |
| Operating profit | £3,752,797 | £3,092,670 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,495,132 | £3,820,577 | |
| Net profit | £3,391,474 | £2,859,386 | |
| Cash | £32,362,476 | £36,140,897 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £71,959,760 | £74,819,146 | |
| Net assets | £69,759,760 | £72,619,146 | |
| Equity | £69,759,760 | £72,619,146 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| 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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 65.6% | 55.0% | |
| Net margin | 59.3% | 50.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.2% | 4.1% | |
| Current ratio | 12.63x | 11.09x | |
| Interest cover | 27.55x | 22.75x |
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
- BDO LLP, Statutory Auditor
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- ORBIT DEVELOPMENTS (MANCHESTER) LIMITED · parent
- Touchstone Properties Limited 100%
- Courthill Properties Limited 100%
- Craftworld (Middlebrook) Limited 100%
- Orbit Development Limited 100%
- Kirkham's (Contractors) Limited 100%
- Fitness Academies (North West) Limited 100%
- P.E. Jones Contracts (Manchester) Limited 100%
- Lyme Green Business Park Limited 83%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAHARAJ, Varun | Secretary | 2018-07-26 | — | — |
| HARDERN, Giles Ivan | Director | 2006-03-10 | Mar 1967 | British |
| JONES, Anthony Emerson | Director | 2002-11-11 | Nov 1967 | British |
| JONES, Audrey | Director | — | May 1936 | British |
| JONES, Peter Emerson | Director | — | Mar 1935 | English |
| ROYLE, Mark Stephen Thomas | Director | 2006-03-10 | Jun 1964 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKE, Gordon | Secretary | 2001-05-25 | 2004-05-20 |
| NEWMAN, James Peter | Secretary | — | 2001-05-25 |
| WEATHERBY, Anne Catherine | Secretary | 2004-05-20 | 2018-07-26 |
| ANNISON, Stanley | Director | — | 2002-04-30 |
| CLARKE-WILLIAMS, Simon Gavin | Director | — | 2022-08-01 |
| JONES, Mark Emerson | Director | 2002-12-11 | 2024-02-29 |
| MACNAUGHTON, John Murdoch | Director | 1992-03-12 | 1992-09-30 |
| MCLEMAN, Paul Robert | Director | 2006-02-03 | 2022-04-22 |
| RICHARDS, Hugh | Director | — | 2003-08-21 |
| SCHULER, Martin Alexander | Director | — | 2003-03-28 |
| SMITH, Jack | Director | — | 1996-11-29 |
| WILSON, Simon Peter | Director | 1993-03-22 | 2024-07-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson Developments (Holdings) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 295 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-11-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-02-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-01-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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
-1.7%
£5,721,823 £5,626,709
-
Cash
+11.7%
£32,362,476 £36,140,897
-
Net assets
+4.1%
£69,759,760 £72,619,146
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-17.6%
£3,752,797 £3,092,670
-
Profit before tax
-15%
£4,495,132 £3,820,577
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