P.J. CAREY (CONTRACTORS) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-26 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£34M
+32.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£59M
-6.9% vs 2024
Employees
510
+13.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£13M
+85.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- P.J. CAREY (CONTRACTORS) LIMITED 1980-12-31 → present
- EASTCLASS LIMITED 1979-11-09 → 1980-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £317,081,822 | £220,996,177 | |
| Operating profit | £6,546,407 | £12,429,842 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,915,309 | £12,848,898 | |
| Net profit | £6,075,429 | £12,040,589 | |
| Cash | £25,731,686 | £34,045,030 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £69,847,853 | £67,190,648 | |
| Net assets | £63,339,734 | £58,994,575 | |
| Equity | £63,339,734 | £58,994,575 | |
| Average employees | 448 | 510 | |
| Wages | £35,604,703 | £31,303,045 |
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 | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.1% | 5.6% | |
| Net margin | 1.9% | 5.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 9.4% | 18.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.74x | 1.71x | |
| Interest cover | 908.09x | 244.64x |
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
- MHA
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As a result, the Board of Directors is satisfied that the Group has sufficient financial resources to continue to operate for a period of at least 12 months from the signing of the financial statements and therefore it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Group's and Company's annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- P.J. CAREY (CONTRACTORS) LIMITED · parent
- Careys Estates Doon Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Careys are proud to have worked on an exceptional range of projects during the last 12 months which include construction of a new energy from waste facility in South Clyde, additional works at the University of Glasgow for a new mathematics facility, a complex waste treatment facility at Sellafield Europe's largest nuclear site, basement and superstructure works at 105 Victoria Street and work for two new super prisons - HMP Glasgow and HMP Welland Oaks.”
- “With a continued focus on contract take on and measured revenue and growth, Careys has a strong order book of secured future contract revenue of over £230m.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 26 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIGLEY, Bjourn | Director | 2017-09-21 | Aug 1979 | Irish |
| CAREY, John Anthony | Director | 2005-12-31 | Oct 1964 | Irish |
| CAREY, Thomas Noel | Director | 2005-12-31 | Jul 1973 | British |
Show 26 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEEHELY, Daniel Brian | Secretary | — | 2005-12-31 |
| O'DONNELL, Fiona Mary | Secretary | 2014-04-01 | 2021-10-06 |
| PURCELL, Dermot | Secretary | 2005-12-31 | 2014-03-31 |
| CAREY, Jason Anthony | Director | 2005-12-31 | 2026-03-17 |
| CAREY, John | Director | 1992-06-15 | 2021-04-30 |
| CAREY, Michael | Director | — | 1992-06-15 |
| CAREY, Patrick Joseph | Director | 1992-06-15 | 2021-04-30 |
| CAREY, Thomas | Director | 1992-02-15 | 2021-04-30 |
| DEACY, Denis Patrick | Director | 2005-12-31 | 2019-07-29 |
| FEEHELY, Daniel Brian | Director | — | 2005-12-31 |
| HARPER, Stephen Alan | Director | 2003-01-24 | 2016-03-31 |
| JOHNSON, Paul Albert | Director | 2009-12-30 | 2023-06-09 |
| LEWIS, Michael Graham | Director | 2014-04-01 | 2015-03-06 |
| LOCKER, Andrew Russell | Director | 2007-08-01 | 2009-05-29 |
| MCCARTHY, Alan | Director | 2015-09-24 | 2015-09-24 |
| MCGUIRE, Martin James | Director | 2017-09-21 | 2021-06-22 |
| O'HAGAN, Joe | Director | 2003-04-03 | 2019-03-29 |
| PRESTON, Mark | Director | 2004-11-01 | 2007-07-31 |
| PURCELL, Dermot | Director | 2010-04-19 | 2014-03-31 |
| QUIGLEY, Paul | Director | 2008-01-07 | 2019-07-12 |
| REGAN, Steven John | Director | 2017-09-21 | 2020-07-31 |
| RIVLIN, Nicholas | Director | 2005-01-01 | 2016-03-31 |
| SENTHILKUMARAN, Kumarasamy Vinatagamoorthy | Director | 1997-01-06 | 2015-09-25 |
| SMITH, Anthony Dunn | Director | 1997-10-08 | 2004-10-20 |
| SMITH, Stephen Peter | Director | 1997-01-06 | 2020-05-31 |
| STEPHENSON, John | Director | — | 2007-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carey Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 262 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-02-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-16 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-09-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-09-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-02-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-02-04 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-09-30 vs 2024-09-30
-
Turnover
-30.3%
£317,081,822 £220,996,177
-
Cash
+32.3%
£25,731,686 £34,045,030
-
Net assets
-6.9%
£63,339,734 £58,994,575
-
Employees
+13.8%
448 510
-
Operating profit
+89.9%
£6,546,407 £12,429,842
-
Profit before tax
+85.8%
£6,915,309 £12,848,898
-
Wages
-12.1%
£35,604,703 £31,303,045
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