SHIPMAN WEALTH MANAGEMENT LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-03 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+203.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
+51.9% vs 2023
Employees
90
+76.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
+397.8% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- SHIPMAN WEALTH MANAGEMENT LTD 2023-01-31 → present
- CATHEDRAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED 1993-10-19 → 2023-01-31
- KENRILL LIMITED 1993-07-20 → 1993-10-19
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £5,820,172 | £11,441,972 | |
| Operating profit | £991,982 | £3,569,472 | |
| Profit before tax | £637,481 | £3,173,067 | |
| Net profit | £344,898 | £2,230,430 | |
| Cash | £466,496 | £1,415,917 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,892,495 | £7,845,371 | |
| Net assets | £4,297,526 | £6,527,956 | |
| Equity | £4,297,526 | £6,527,956 | |
| Average employees | 51 | 90 | |
| Wages | £2,897,363 | £5,300,551 |
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 | 17.0% | 31.2% | |
| Net margin | 5.9% | 19.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 16.8% | 45.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 48.7% | 39.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.86x | 2.51x | |
| Interest cover | 10.13x | 14.21x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have, at the time of approving the financial statements, a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate financial resources to continue to trade for at least 12 months from the date of this report and consequently, have continued to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “No events have occurred between the balance sheet date and the date of this report, which have had an adjusting or non-adjusting impact on the results and amounts disclosed in the financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROWNING, Amanda Hilary | Director | 2025-03-11 | Aug 1974 | British |
| ELLIS, Peter Robert | Director | 2021-04-01 | Sep 1971 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMES, Timothy | Secretary | 1996-08-19 | 1998-01-26 |
| DWYER, Daniel John | Nominee Secretary | 1993-07-20 | 1993-10-07 |
| HIGHET, Peter Hugh David | Secretary | 1993-10-07 | 1996-08-19 |
| SMITH, John Nicholas | Secretary | 1998-01-05 | 2003-10-13 |
| WOOLFREY, Emma Marie | Secretary | 2003-10-30 | 2021-04-01 |
| AMES, Timothy | Director | 1997-02-20 | 2018-12-24 |
| CLAYTON, Robert Keith | Director | 2000-04-06 | 2002-08-23 |
| DOYLE, Betty June | Nominee Director | 1993-07-20 | 1993-10-07 |
| DWYER, Daniel John | Nominee Director | 1993-07-20 | 1993-10-07 |
| ERNEST, Lucy Jane | Director | 2021-04-01 | 2022-08-01 |
| GORE, Neil James | Director | 2022-03-23 | 2024-01-02 |
| GORE, Neil James | Director | 2012-04-13 | 2021-04-01 |
| HIGHET, Peter Hugh David | Director | 1993-10-07 | 1996-08-19 |
| MERCER, James Rawdon | Director | 1993-10-14 | 2000-04-04 |
| SIVEYER, Bernard Jack | Director | 1993-10-14 | 1995-09-30 |
| SMITH, John Nicholas | Director | 1993-10-07 | 1997-10-15 |
| WILLIAMS, Michael Anthony | Director | 2021-04-13 | 2025-03-11 |
| WOOLFREY, Emma Marie | Director | 2000-04-06 | 2021-08-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shipman Group Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-04-01 | Active |
| Mrs Emma Marie Woolfrey | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-04-01 |
| Mr Neil James Gore | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-04-01 |
| Mr Timothy Ames | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50%, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-10-18 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 179 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-01-31 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-09 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-31 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2022-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-02-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-04 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2021-08-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-08-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-05-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
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Turnover
+96.6%
£5,820,172 £11,441,972
-
Cash
+203.5%
£466,496 £1,415,917
-
Net assets
+51.9%
£4,297,526 £6,527,956
-
Employees
+76.5%
51 90
-
Operating profit
+259.8%
£991,982 £3,569,472
-
Profit before tax
+397.8%
£637,481 £3,173,067
-
Wages
+82.9%
£2,897,363 £5,300,551
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