CAREY GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-17 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£44M
+30.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£85M
+0.4% vs 2024
Employees
627
+0.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£11M
+49.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CAREY GROUP LIMITED 2020-10-07 → present
- CAREY GROUP PLC 1991-09-09 → 2020-10-07
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £388,144,000 | £303,163,000 | |
| Operating profit | £7,566,000 | £10,597,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £7,453,000 | £11,145,000 | |
| Net profit | £5,740,000 | £9,106,000 | |
| Cash | £33,315,000 | £43,552,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £98,781,000 | £102,962,000 | |
| Net assets | £84,530,000 | £84,848,000 | |
| Equity | £84,530,000 | £84,848,000 | |
| Average employees | 622 | 627 | |
| Wages | £52,398,000 | £48,770,000 |
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 | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.9% | 3.5% | |
| Net margin | 1.5% | 3.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.7% | 10.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 52.8% | 54.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.27x | 1.30x | |
| Interest cover | 20.84x | 16.93x |
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
- MHA
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board of Directors is satisfied that the Group has sufficient financial resources to continue to operate for a period of at least 12 months from the signing of the financial statements and therefore it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Group's annual financial statements”
Group structure
- CAREY GROUP LIMITED · parent
- P.J. Carey (Contractors) Limited 100%
- P.J. Carey Plant Hire (Oval) Limited 100%
- Careys New Homes Limited 100%
- T.E. Scudder Limited 100%
- Seneca Environmental Solutions Limited 100%
- ION Environmental Solutions Limited 100%
- Careys Environmental Services Limited 100%
- Careys Estates Doon Limited 100%
- Careys Shared Equity Limited 100%
- PJ Carey (Contractors) Limited, incorporated in Ireland 100%
- BDL Group Limited 100%
- Careys Design Team Limited 100%
- Careys 35 Baird St Limited 100%
- Careys 1 Hand Axe Yard Limited 100%
- Elfield Park Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 1 October 2025 the Trustees of the Carey Group Pension scheme, signed an insurance contract with Aviva Life and Pensions Ltd for a buy in of the pension scheme A premium of £100k was paid to secure the buy in.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMBA SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2026-02-05 | — | — |
| CAREY, Jason Anthony | Director | 2020-02-11 | Aug 1975 | Irish |
| CAREY, Thomas Noel | Director | 2020-02-11 | Jan 1973 | British |
| KETTLE, Claire Joanne | Director | 2025-05-08 | Sep 1975 | British |
| O'DONNELL, Fiona Mary | Director | 2022-03-08 | Apr 1975 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAREY, John | Secretary | 1991-09-09 | 1992-06-15 |
| FEEHELY, Daniel Brian | Secretary | 1999-12-07 | 2005-12-31 |
| GODWIN, Malcolm George | Secretary | 1991-09-09 | 1991-09-09 |
| MURPHY, Brendan Paul Francis | Secretary | 1992-06-15 | 1999-12-07 |
| O'DONNELL, Fiona Mary | Secretary | 2014-04-01 | 2021-10-06 |
| PURCELL, Dermot | Secretary | 2005-12-31 | 2014-03-31 |
| CAREY, John Anthony | Director | 2010-04-19 | 2022-11-07 |
| CAREY, John | Director | 1991-09-09 | 2021-04-30 |
| CAREY, Patrick Joseph | Director | 1991-09-09 | 2021-04-30 |
| CAREY, Thomas | Director | 1991-09-09 | 2021-04-30 |
| DEACY, Denis Patrick | Director | 2005-12-31 | 2019-07-29 |
| FEEHELY, Daniel Brian | Director | 1992-05-18 | 2005-12-31 |
| GODWIN, Malcolm George | Director | 1991-09-09 | 1991-09-09 |
| JOHNSON, Paul Albert | Director | 2017-09-21 | 2023-04-27 |
| LEWIS, David | Director | 1991-09-09 | 1991-09-09 |
| LEWIS, Michael Graham | Director | 2014-04-01 | 2015-03-06 |
| MASLIN, Stephen | Director | 2020-02-11 | 2021-12-02 |
| MCCARTHY, Alan | Director | 2015-09-25 | 2020-04-22 |
| NILSSON, Martin Karl | Director | 2022-10-20 | 2025-04-24 |
| PURCELL, Dermot | Director | 2010-04-19 | 2014-03-31 |
| UNDERWOOD, Warren Paul | Director | 2020-05-31 | 2022-04-01 |
| WELCH, Julie Dawn | Director | 2020-01-16 | 2023-09-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araglin Holdings Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2020-10-22 | Active |
| Mr John Carey | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-10-22 |
| Mr Patrick Joseph Carey | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-10-22 |
| Mr Thomas Carey | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-10-22 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 164 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-02-10 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-02-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-01-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-01-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-16 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-08-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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 2025-09-30 vs 2024-09-30
-
Turnover
-21.9%
£388,144,000 £303,163,000
-
Cash
+30.7%
£33,315,000 £43,552,000
-
Net assets
+0.4%
£84,530,000 £84,848,000
-
Employees
+0.8%
622 627
-
Operating profit
+40.1%
£7,566,000 £10,597,000
-
Profit before tax
+49.5%
£7,453,000 £11,145,000
-
Wages
-6.9%
£52,398,000 £48,770,000
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