HORNBY HOBBIES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-14 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£225K
-63.4% vs 2024
Net assets
-£31M
-43.7% vs 2024
Employees
168
-3.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£9M
-9.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- HORNBY HOBBIES LIMITED 1987-01-08 → present
- HORNBY INDUSTRIES LIMITED 1986-12-04 → 1987-01-08
- EARTHMAJOR LIMITED 1986-10-17 → 1986-12-04
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £52,083,000 | £54,468,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,792,000 | -£7,147,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£8,309,000 | -£9,097,000 | |
| Net profit | -£11,634,000 | -£8,980,000 | |
| Cash | £614,000 | £225,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,844,000 | -£5,432,000 | |
| Net assets | -£21,708,000 | -£31,198,000 | |
| Equity | -£21,708,000 | -£30,865,000 | |
| Average employees | 174 | 168 | |
| Wages | £6,887,000 | £7,432,000 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -13.0% | -13.1% | |
| Net margin | -22.3% | -16.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -176.7% | 131.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 130.7% | 146.8% | |
| Current ratio | 0.79x | 0.68x | |
| Interest cover | -3.72x | -3.19x |
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
- other
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On the basis of these forecasts, and after a detailed review of trading, financial position and cash flow models, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and Company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Significant events
- “No other significant events have occurred between the end of the reporting period and the date of the signature of the Annual Report.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NARAYAN, Adrian Ashwin | Secretary | 2025-11-28 | — | — |
| NARAYAN, Adrian Ashwin | Director | 2025-11-28 | Oct 1973 | British |
| RAEBURN, Oliver Max | Director | 2023-01-23 | Sep 1970 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COX, Alan Robert | Secretary | — | 1994-05-16 |
| GOULD, Kirstie Elaine | Secretary | 2018-01-04 | 2025-11-28 |
| MULLIGAN, David Kevin | Secretary | 2016-08-18 | 2017-12-31 |
| STACEY, Amy Victoria | Secretary | 2014-04-01 | 2016-08-18 |
| STANSFIELD, John Watson | Secretary | 1994-05-16 | 2013-07-01 |
| STONE, Nicholas Philip | Secretary | 2013-07-10 | 2014-04-01 |
| AHIR, Bharat | Director | 2014-08-11 | 2018-03-31 |
| AMES, Richard Jonathan | Director | 2014-11-28 | 2016-02-15 |
| BATE, David John | Director | — | 1995-11-28 |
| COLE, Nicholas Bernard William | Director | 1997-04-22 | 2013-04-30 |
| COOKE, Stephen Andrew | Director | 2015-07-13 | 2017-10-03 |
| COX, Alan Robert | Director | — | 1996-12-04 |
| DAVIES, Lyndon | Director | 2017-10-05 | 2024-11-28 |
| DEELEY, Derek Arthur Ernest | Director | 1994-05-16 | 1996-09-25 |
| FLYNN, Terence David | Director | 1994-05-16 | 1996-11-30 |
| GEMMELL, David Keith | Director | 1994-05-16 | 1996-08-31 |
| GOULD, Kirstie Elaine | Director | 2018-01-04 | 2025-11-28 |
| HUSSEY, Malcolm | Director | — | 1998-07-03 |
| JEFFERY, Simon | Director | 2004-08-26 | 2004-11-07 |
| JOHNSON, Neil Anthony | Director | 2000-12-22 | 2001-09-27 |
| MARTIN, Frank | Director | 2001-01-03 | 2014-01-09 |
| MCCOLLUM, Cyril Stanley | Director | — | 1997-11-05 |
| MCKAY, Redrick James Maynard | Director | 2013-07-08 | 2017-10-20 |
| MULLIGAN, David Kevin | Director | 2016-05-26 | 2017-12-31 |
| NESS, Keith Lawrence | Director | — | 1996-02-19 |
| NEWEY, Peter, Mr. | Director | 1997-04-22 | 2000-12-22 |
| PASSET, Frits | Director | 2001-05-09 | 2013-11-18 |
| PASTOR, Josep | Director | 2005-03-17 | 2009-02-06 |
| SOUTHWORTH, Nathaniel Simon | Director | 2011-02-01 | 2016-07-31 |
| STANSFIELD, John Watson | Director | 1994-05-16 | 2013-07-10 |
| STONE, Nicholas Philip | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2015-07-13 |
| STROWGER, Gaston Jack | Director | — | 1994-03-31 |
| TYLER, Keith Charles | Director | 1994-05-16 | 1995-10-27 |
| WALTERS, Michael Alan | Director | 2003-04-01 | 2013-04-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hornby Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 188 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-28 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-28 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-10-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-18 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-28 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-11-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-02-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+4.6%
£52,083,000 £54,468,000
-
Cash
-63.4%
£614,000 £225,000
-
Net assets
-43.7%
-£21,708,000 -£31,198,000
-
Employees
-3.4%
174 168
-
Operating profit
-5.2%
-£6,792,000 -£7,147,000
-
Profit before tax
-9.5%
-£8,309,000 -£9,097,000
-
Wages
+7.9%
£6,887,000 £7,432,000
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