ESTUARY SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-09 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-02-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-14.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£6M
+8.4% vs 2023
Employees
43
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£622K
-9.9% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ESTUARY SERVICES LIMITED 1988-09-15 → present
- SPONSASHIP LIMITED 1988-05-27 → 1988-09-15
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 | £4,861,624 | £4,690,969 | |
| Operating profit | £693,932 | £577,945 | |
| Profit before tax | £690,429 | £621,880 | |
| Net profit | £523,169 | £464,692 | |
| Cash | £2,017,523 | £1,731,890 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,503,806 | £7,127,025 | |
| Net assets | £5,742,416 | £6,227,358 | |
| Equity | £5,742,416 | £6,227,358 | |
| Average employees | 43 | 43 | |
| Wages | £1,777,278 | £1,959,612 |
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 | 14.3% | 12.3% | |
| Net margin | 10.8% | 9.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.7% | 8.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 19.0% | 17.9% | |
| Current ratio | 4.60x | 5.36x | |
| Interest cover | 99.46x | 93.99x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board has a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and has therefore assessed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate in preparing the financial statements and that there are no material uncertainties to disclose.”
Significant events
- “The war in Ukraine led to higher fuel prices. This has an impact on ESL's operational expenditure. A fuel charge levy was applied to the charges in 2023 to mitigate this additional cost.”
- “Geopolitical events across the globe can have the potential, as we saw in early 2024, to disrupt trade volumes coming into the Port of London and Medway, which can have an adverse impact on our financial performance.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 37 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRUNDY, Susan Jane | Secretary | 2021-04-01 | — | — |
| BROWN, Robert | Director | 2022-11-01 | Apr 1967 | English |
| FROST, Glenda Michelle | Director | 2021-04-01 | Sep 1971 | British |
| MORTIMER, Robin John David | Director | 2023-01-01 | Jun 1972 | British |
| PALMER, James | Director | 2024-09-30 | Jun 1989 | British |
| SPAIN, Cathryn Anne | Director | 2018-03-02 | Jan 1970 | British |
Show 37 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN, Anthony Charles | Secretary | 1992-09-17 | 1994-09-10 |
| BOWLEY, William John | Secretary | 1994-09-19 | 2009-07-31 |
| KHAN, Farook Akhtar | Secretary | 2020-04-08 | 2021-03-30 |
| MARRISON GILL, Caroline Ruth | Secretary | 2009-07-31 | 2020-04-08 |
| MIDDLETON, Keith Sidney | Secretary | — | 1992-09-17 |
| BARKER, Paul Ernest | Director | 2017-01-31 | 2018-06-14 |
| BROWN, Leslie Walter | Director | — | 1993-12-31 |
| CARR, Richard Anthony | Director | 1996-05-20 | 2008-12-19 |
| CHAPMAN, Brian | Director | 2001-09-17 | 2017-10-27 |
| CLAPPERTON, Steven Bryan | Director | 2022-01-01 | 2024-09-29 |
| CLIFF, Bernard | Director | 1994-04-13 | 1996-11-29 |
| CRAMPTON, Desmond | Director | 1997-08-15 | 2008-04-18 |
| CUTHBERT, Stephen Colin | Director | 1999-08-11 | 2004-12-31 |
| DOYLE, Gary Lawrence | Director | 2020-02-11 | 2021-03-30 |
| ELLIS, Geoffrey Percy | Director | — | 2001-09-17 |
| EVERITT, Richard Leslie | Director | 2005-01-04 | 2014-03-26 |
| FINDLAY, Alastair Ian | Director | 2000-12-11 | 2005-12-31 |
| FURLONG, Percival Trevor | Director | 1996-12-20 | 2000-04-12 |
| GOBBI, Stephen Mark, Captain | Director | 2005-06-15 | 2012-03-28 |
| GOFFIN, Richard William | Director | 2018-06-14 | 2021-03-30 |
| GREEN, David Simon | Director | 2006-03-15 | 2008-05-31 |
| HEARN, Miles Alan | Director | 2014-03-10 | 2016-02-15 |
| JEFFERY, David John | Director | — | 1999-07-31 |
| KAVANAGH, Paul | Director | 2012-03-28 | 2012-06-14 |
| KENDALL, Gareth Anthony | Director | 2008-05-31 | 2014-01-08 |
| MAJUMDAR, Budhadev | Director | 1995-03-08 | 1997-08-15 |
| MARTIN, Alan James | Director | 2015-11-25 | 2021-03-30 |
| MORTIMER, Robin John David | Director | 2014-06-13 | 2021-04-30 |
| NEWBURY, David James | Director | 2008-04-28 | 2017-05-12 |
| PARKINSON, Gary | Director | 2012-08-01 | 2015-11-25 |
| SLATER, Anthony | Director | 2018-03-02 | 2019-12-31 |
| STEEN, Peter Duncan | Director | 2009-01-30 | 2022-12-31 |
| STOYLES, Derek | Director | — | 1996-10-17 |
| VINCENT, Peter Victor | Director | — | 1994-04-13 |
| WHARTON, Kenneth John | Director | 1994-04-13 | 1995-03-08 |
| WHITE, Peter Renwick | Director | 1996-10-17 | 2005-04-30 |
| WHITTON, Joseph Michael Mckay | Director | — | 1996-05-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Of London Authority | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-03-30 | Active |
| Port Of Sheerness Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-03-30 |
| Port Of London Authority | Legal person | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-03-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 209 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-04-30 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-03-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-01-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-01-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-05-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-04-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-04-30 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-3.5%
£4,861,624 £4,690,969
-
Cash
-14.2%
£2,017,523 £1,731,890
-
Net assets
+8.4%
£5,742,416 £6,227,358
-
Employees
0%
43 43
-
Operating profit
-16.7%
£693,932 £577,945
-
Profit before tax
-9.9%
£690,429 £621,880
-
Wages
+10.3%
£1,777,278 £1,959,612
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers