O'DONOVAN (WASTE DISPOSAL) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-01 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-18
Watchouts
Cash
£25K
-98.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£8M
-6% vs 2023
Employees
57
-52.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£699K
-141.5% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
Having regard to the above, the Directors prepared the financial statements on a non-going concern basis.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £20,713,084 | £8,749,107 | |
| Operating profit | £1,761,372 | -£672,323 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,686,474 | -£699,183 | |
| Net profit | £1,672,814 | -£523,463 | |
| Cash | £1,489,801 | £24,567 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,380,475 | £8,136,398 | |
| Net assets | £8,659,861 | £8,136,398 | |
| Equity | £8,659,861 | £8,136,398 | |
| Average employees | 119 | 57 | |
| Wages | £5,266,526 | £2,626,295 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.5% | -7.7% | |
| Net margin | 8.1% | -6.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.8% | -8.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.48x | 51.59x | |
| Interest cover | 23.39x | -25.03x |
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
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“Having regard to the above, the Directors prepared the financial statements on a non-going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “On 4 June 2024, the company entered into an asset purchase agreement with a group company, Sortera Limited. Subsequent to this event, the company is not considered actively trading.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASFORD, Gareth Peter | Director | 2023-12-22 | Sep 1978 | British |
| WILKINSON, Ian David | Director | 2026-02-27 | Dec 1964 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNNING, Roy | Secretary | — | 2008-07-01 |
| BERGSTROM, Thomas | Director | 2022-06-01 | 2023-12-22 |
| MCCLEERY, Mark Gilmour | Director | 2023-12-22 | 2026-02-27 |
| O'DONOVAN, Jacqueline | Director | 1993-07-01 | 2023-12-22 |
| O'DONOVAN, Jacqueline | Director | — | 1993-04-01 |
| O'DONOVAN, Michael Denis | Director | 1993-04-01 | 1993-07-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'Donovan Group Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2022-06-01 | Active |
| Ms Jacqueline O'Donovan | Individual | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-06-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 128 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-07-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-05-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-08 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-08-08 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-05-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-05-18 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge whole release with charge number | |
| 2023-05-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-05-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-57.8%
£20,713,084 £8,749,107
-
Cash
-98.4%
£1,489,801 £24,567
-
Net assets
-6%
£8,659,861 £8,136,398
-
Employees
-52.1%
119 57
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Operating profit
-138.2%
£1,761,372 -£672,323
-
Profit before tax
-141.5%
£1,686,474 -£699,183
-
Wages
-50.1%
£5,266,526 £2,626,295
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