RWS TRANSLATIONS LIMITED

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Next accounts due

2026-06-30 (in 1mo)

Last filed for 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement due

2026-11-11 (in 6mo)

Last made up 2025-10-28

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£3M

-30.8% vs 2023

Net assets

£24M

+20.4% vs 2023

Employees

212

-2.3% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£9M

-49.6% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 1 time since incorporation

RWS TRANSLATIONS LIMITED 1988-10-27 → present
M.H. RANDALL AND PARTNERS LIMITED 1972-11-06 → 1988-10-27

Net assets

2-year trend · vs Industrials median

RWS TRANSLATIONS LIMITED·Industrials median · n=6236

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30

Metric	2023-09-30	2024-09-30
Turnover	£88,634,567	£87,401,406
Operating profit	£18,378,551	£9,196,735
Profit before tax	£18,325,865	£9,234,922
Net profit	£14,303,822	£4,057,096
Cash	£5,033,610	£3,485,717
Total assets less current liabilities	£20,634,957	£24,055,485
Net assets	£19,976,203	£24,055,485
Equity	£19,976,203	£24,055,485
Average employees	217	212
Wages	£13,016,891	£13,463,190

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	2023-09-30	2024-09-30
Operating margin	20.7%	10.5%
Net margin	16.1%	4.6%
Return on capital employed	89.1%	38.2%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets)	59.2%	39.3%
Current ratio	1.08x	2.07x
Interest cover	275.64x	294.73x

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 101
Reporting scope: Standalone (parent only)
Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
Audit opinion: Unqualified (clean)
Going concern: Affirmed
“Consequently, the Directors are confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due until 30 September 2026 and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Significant events

“Separately, the Group has also taken an impairment charge of £10.5m on its freehold buildings in Chalfont St Peter after a recent revaluation lowered its value from £14.0m to £3.5m. Subsequent to the year end, the Group is closing this office with all staff relocating to the Group's Maidenhead office.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

3 active · 33 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
GATLAND, Erica	Director	2018-10-01	Dec 1971	British
LACEY, James Christopher	Director	2026-02-04	May 1978	British
PERKINS, Lauren Adele	Director	2025-06-23	Oct 1985	British

Show 33 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
ANTHONY, Susan	Secretary	1995-03-16	2007-03-31
BRENTNALL, Philip	Secretary	—	1995-02-10
GLASS, Desmond Kenneth	Secretary	2017-11-06	2022-04-08
JONES, Timothy John	Secretary	1995-02-10	1995-03-16
LEWEY, Christopher Guy Desmond	Secretary	2022-04-08	2022-11-09
MCCARTHY, Michael Anthony	Secretary	2007-04-02	2012-12-31
THOMPSON, Richard James	Secretary	2013-01-01	2017-11-06
ANTHONY, Susan	Director	1995-05-11	2007-03-31
BALLINTYNE, Brett Anthony	Director	2023-05-10	2025-06-30
BARB, Elinor Mary Hertha	Director	—	1993-03-31
BARB, Wolfgang Gerson, Dr	Director	—	1995-02-10
BENNETT, Daniel Thomas	Director	2022-12-20	2023-11-30
BRODE, Andrew Stephen	Director	1995-02-11	2023-08-10
CARTER, Stuart, Director	Director	2017-10-02	2020-03-03
DAY, Roderick	Director	2022-04-08	2022-12-20
DRANE, Ashwood Stephen, Dr	Director	1995-05-11	1999-07-07
DRANE, Ashwood Stephen, Doctor	Director	1993-01-01	1995-02-11
EVANS, Christopher	Director	2019-11-28	2022-12-20
GLASS, Desmond Kenneth Neil	Director	2017-11-06	2022-04-08
HARDY, Austyn	Director	2019-11-28	2023-05-05
HINDLEY, Joanne Claire	Director	2012-01-01	2017-09-29
JONES, Timothy John	Director	1994-04-01	2000-07-25
LODGE, Stephen John	Director	—	2011-01-31
LUCAS, Elisabeth Ann	Director	—	2011-12-31
MCCARTHY, Michael Anthony	Director	2000-05-02	2012-12-31
OTTWAY, Reinhard Karl-Heinz	Director	2012-01-01	2017-03-31
POTTS, Susan	Director	—	1995-02-11
RANDALL, Robert John	Director	—	1995-02-11
SIMPKIN, Neil Thomas	Director	2012-01-01	2022-12-20
SITCH, Charles Edward	Director	2012-01-01	2020-05-29
THOMPSON, Richard James	Director	2012-11-28	2021-07-25
VINCENT, Graham David	Director	—	1993-03-11
WALSH, Catherine Elizabeth	Director	2022-12-20	2023-05-10

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name	Kind	Nature of control	Notified	Status
Rws Holdings Plc	Corporate entity	Appoints directors	2023-10-28	Active
Rws Group Limited	Corporate entity	Shares 75–100%	2016-04-06	Ceased 2023-10-28

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 212 total filings

Date	Type	Category	Description
2026-02-05	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2025-11-03	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-10-04	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2025-07-16	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2025-07-03	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2025-07-02	CH01	officers	Change person director company with change date	PDF
2025-03-31	PSC05	persons-with-significant-control	Change to a person with significant control	PDF
2025-03-31	AD01	address	Change registered office address company with date old address new address	PDF
2024-11-05	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with updates	PDF
2024-07-14	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2023-12-19	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2023-12-01	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2023-11-20	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2023-11-10	PSC02	persons-with-significant-control	Notification of a person with significant control	PDF
2023-11-10	PSC07	persons-with-significant-control	Cessation of a person with significant control	PDF
2023-08-17	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2023-05-17	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2023-05-17	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2023-05-17	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2022-12-21	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 6
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 2
Officers resigned: 1

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

Year-on-year

FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30

Turnover

-1.4%

£88,634,567 £87,401,406
Cash

-30.8%

£5,033,610 £3,485,717
Net assets

+20.4%

£19,976,203 £24,055,485
Employees

-2.3%

217 212
Operating profit

-50%

£18,378,551 £9,196,735
Profit before tax

-49.6%

£18,325,865 £9,234,922
Wages

+3.4%

£13,016,891 £13,463,190

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

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