WILLIAM LEE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-17 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
-44% vs 2024
Net assets
£35M
+0.1% vs 2024
Employees
422
-9.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£11K
-100.3% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WILLIAM LEE LIMITED 1991-04-04 → present
- SEENAK LIMITED 1991-01-23 → 1991-04-04
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £86,236,510 | £66,829,675 | |
| Operating profit | £3,092,464 | -£200,157 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,361,540 | -£10,676 | |
| Net profit | £2,797,497 | £44,017 | |
| Cash | £9,260,372 | £5,188,565 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £37,248,193 | £37,695,788 | |
| Net assets | £35,342,158 | £35,386,175 | |
| Equity | £35,342,158 | £35,386,175 | |
| Average employees | 468 | 422 | |
| Wages | £19,485,527 | £16,967,902 |
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 | 3.6% | -0.3% | |
| Net margin | 3.2% | 0.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.3% | -0.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 30.9% | 31.6% | |
| Current ratio | 2.29x | 2.08x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On this basis, the directors consider the going concern of the company to be dependent upon the continued support of Castings P.L.C and a letter of support has been issued to confirm that Castings P.L.C will continue to support the company for at least 12 months from the date of signing of these financial statements.”
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the company since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MANT, Steven James | Secretary | 2010-10-18 | — | — |
| ALEXANDER, Simon John | Director | 2018-04-21 | Aug 1968 | British |
| CROFTS, Shaun | Director | 2014-10-01 | May 1968 | British |
| HODSON, Christopher Hall | Director | 2014-06-01 | Sep 1966 | British |
| LACEY, Adrian Mark | Director | 2016-03-01 | Feb 1968 | British |
| MANT, Steven James | Director | 2010-10-18 | Aug 1975 | British |
| MCLOUGHLIN, Tracy | Director | 2010-04-01 | May 1973 | British |
| ROPER, Mathew | Director | 2023-09-01 | Mar 1986 | British |
| TEBBUTT, Scott | Director | 2026-05-06 | Mar 1976 | British |
| VICARY, Adam | Director | 2017-03-31 | Mar 1968 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBY, John Christopher | Secretary | 1991-02-18 | 2010-10-18 |
| PINSENT MASONS DIRECTOR LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1991-01-23 | 1991-02-18 |
| BONSALL, Alan | Director | 1991-04-04 | 2002-04-01 |
| CARANNANTE, Toni | Director | 1996-04-01 | 2022-09-30 |
| COOKE, Brian John | Director | 1991-02-18 | 2023-08-15 |
| COOPER, Graham | Director | 1991-04-04 | 2014-09-30 |
| COWARD, Randolph James | Director | 1991-04-04 | 2006-04-07 |
| DOBBS, David Nikolas | Director | 2018-06-05 | 2021-02-28 |
| HUNT, Michael Roger | Director | 1991-04-04 | 2004-03-31 |
| LAING, Bruce Alexander | Director | 2020-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| ROBY, John Christopher | Director | 1991-02-18 | 2010-10-18 |
| RODDIS, Anthony Philip | Director | 1991-04-04 | 2014-05-31 |
| WHELPTON, Martyn | Director | 2005-01-04 | 2015-02-28 |
| WOODHOUSE, Terry | Director | 1991-04-04 | 2004-12-22 |
| PINSENT MASONS DIRECTOR LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1991-01-23 | 1991-02-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castings Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 121 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-11-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-02-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-12-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-22.5%
£86,236,510 £66,829,675
-
Cash
-44%
£9,260,372 £5,188,565
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£35,342,158 £35,386,175
-
Employees
-9.8%
468 422
-
Operating profit
-106.5%
£3,092,464 -£200,157
-
Profit before tax
-100.3%
£3,361,540 -£10,676
-
Wages
-12.9%
£19,485,527 £16,967,902
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