SOMERSET CARE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-19 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-05
Watchouts
Cash
£12M
-50% vs 2024
Net assets
£35M
+6.2% vs 2024
Employees
2,616
-0.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4M
+39.9% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £89,495,977 | £91,107,563 | |
| Operating profit | £2,914,744 | £4,285,762 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,543,598 | £3,559,693 | |
| Net profit | £926,304 | £2,073,752 | |
| Cash | £24,345,635 | £12,180,385 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £60,009,446 | £58,515,300 | |
| Net assets | £32,560,702 | £34,587,204 | |
| Equity | £32,560,702 | £34,587,204 | |
| Average employees | 2,631 | 2,616 | |
| Wages | £46,568,737 | £55,109,565 |
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 | 3.3% | 4.7% | |
| Net margin | 1.0% | 2.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.9% | 7.3% | |
| Current ratio | 2.42x | 1.31x | |
| Interest cover | 1.99x | 2.85x |
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
- PKF Francis Clark
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. The Directors are satisfied having made all necessary inquiries and considered the financial projections for the Group, including cash flow forecasts, the availability of committed bank facilities and headroom for the coming 12 months, that the Group will continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due.”
Group structure
- SOMERSET CARE LIMITED · parent
- Somerset Care Support Services Limited 100%
- Way Ahead Community Services Limited 100%
- Way Ahead Holdings Limited 100%
- Acacia Facilities Management Limited 100%
- Somerset Care at Home Limited 100%
- Lexicon Healthcare 100%
Significant events
- “The purchase of Lexicon Healthcare Ltd, which owns Green Tree Court, a modern luxury care home in Exeter, in May 2024.”
- “The re-financing of our lending with Barclays which was successfully completed in March 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 40 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, Troy Joseph | Secretary | 2025-09-24 | — | — |
| GLYNN, Emma Victoria | Director | 2019-10-24 | Jun 1980 | British |
| GREEN, Ian Richard | Director | 2024-05-01 | Sep 1965 | British |
| KING, Philip St Lawrence | Director | 2024-05-01 | Mar 1968 | British |
| MITCHELL, Eve Frances | Director | 2025-06-03 | Jun 1977 | British |
| PALMER, Jonathan | Director | 2024-10-16 | Oct 1975 | British |
| ROBINSON, Troy Joseph | Director | 2025-08-07 | Nov 1975 | British |
| SANDERSON, Rupert Douglas | Director | 2024-05-01 | Apr 1970 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Ieuan Wyn | Director | 2025-12-01 | Mar 1975 | British |
Show 40 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER, Daniel Christopher Eric | Secretary | 2017-07-01 | 2020-05-31 |
| PARROTT, John Humphrey | Secretary | 1992-10-21 | 2011-09-30 |
| WALL, Christopher John | Secretary | 2023-10-26 | 2025-09-24 |
| WALL, Christopher | Secretary | 2011-10-01 | 2017-06-30 |
| ANDREWS, Susan Ida | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2018-04-27 |
| BARNFIELD, Richard James | Director | 2009-04-01 | 2016-10-21 |
| CAMPBELL, Norman Stanley | Director | 2000-10-10 | 2009-04-01 |
| CRAWFORD, Janet Maisie | Director | 1995-07-01 | 1996-03-31 |
| DALE, Barrie | Director | 2000-10-10 | 2012-11-28 |
| DAVIES, John Richard Christopher | Director | 2008-04-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| DAVIES, Roger John | Director | 2016-10-22 | 2019-10-24 |
| DAY, Peter John | Director | — | 2000-10-06 |
| DERRICK, Audrey Irene | Director | 1996-10-01 | 2011-10-21 |
| DUPONT, Angela Joy | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| FARRIS, Joan | Director | 1995-07-01 | 1996-03-31 |
| GARTH, David Charles | Director | 2003-08-01 | 2004-11-22 |
| HELLIKER, Susan | Director | 1995-07-01 | 1996-03-31 |
| HICKS, Sarah Jane | Director | 2018-11-22 | 2019-09-30 |
| HICKS, Sarah Jane | Director | 2016-10-22 | 2018-09-11 |
| ILES, James Charles | Director | 2006-01-17 | 2016-10-21 |
| KELLY, Nicola Marie | Director | 2021-10-25 | 2022-08-31 |
| KEOGH, Eoin Christopher Damien | Director | 2012-01-01 | 2015-03-23 |
| LARPENT, Andrew Lionel Dudley De Hochepied | Director | 2001-06-01 | 2011-11-30 |
| MARTIN, Alyson Lynne | Director | 1992-09-08 | 2015-03-23 |
| MCCALL, David | Director | — | 1994-11-01 |
| MORELAND, Michael | Director | — | 1996-03-31 |
| MORTIBOYS, Julie Ann | Director | 1993-08-09 | 2000-10-06 |
| NEEDHAM, Andrew Malcolm Joseph | Director | 2020-03-27 | 2020-09-30 |
| PARROTT, John Humphrey | Director | 1993-08-09 | 2011-09-30 |
| PEARSON, James Alexander | Director | 2023-10-26 | 2024-08-16 |
| RICHARDS, John Edward | Director | 1996-10-01 | 2007-11-09 |
| RIDEWOOD, Gary Spencer | Director | 2017-09-05 | 2024-01-31 |
| RING, Richard Peter | Director | 2016-07-01 | 2024-05-31 |
| ROBB, Elizabeth Jane | Director | 2019-10-24 | 2024-04-30 |
| STRAWBRIDGE, Heather Patricia | Director | 2010-10-01 | 2017-06-30 |
| TOWNSON PHILPOTT, Jane Karen, Dr | Director | 2011-04-01 | 2018-11-07 |
| TYLER, Linda Joan | Director | 1993-06-01 | 1993-10-01 |
| WALL, Christopher John | Director | 2023-10-26 | 2025-09-24 |
| WALL, Christopher John | Director | 2011-04-01 | 2017-06-30 |
| WREN, Joanne Nicola | Director | 2017-02-13 | 2017-10-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 293 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-03 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-10-03 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-12-31 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
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Turnover
+1.8%
£89,495,977 £91,107,563
-
Cash
-50%
£24,345,635 £12,180,385
-
Net assets
+6.2%
£32,560,702 £34,587,204
-
Employees
-0.6%
2,631 2,616
-
Operating profit
+47%
£2,914,744 £4,285,762
-
Profit before tax
+39.9%
£2,543,598 £3,559,693
-
Wages
+18.3%
£46,568,737 £55,109,565
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