WARWICK UNIVERSITY SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-26 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-12
Watchouts
Cash
£2K
-94.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£557K
+0.3% vs 2024
Employees
16
-5.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£5M
-34.2% 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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WARWICK UNIVERSITY SERVICES LIMITED 1994-08-25 → present
- MEAUJO (236) LIMITED 1994-06-08 → 1994-08-25
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £10,356,141 | £8,185,231 | |
| Operating profit | £6,970,710 | £4,609,177 | |
| Profit before tax | £7,669,068 | £5,044,532 | |
| Net profit | £7,669,068 | £5,044,532 | |
| Cash | £35,737 | £2,123 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £555,796 | £564,460 | |
| Net assets | £555,796 | £557,263 | |
| Equity | £555,796 | £557,263 | |
| Average employees | 17 | 16 | |
| Wages | £707,784 | £740,393 |
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 | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 67.3% | 56.3% | |
| Net margin | 74.1% | 61.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1254.2% | 816.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.06x | 1.09x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Dafferns Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company has sufficient financial resources to ensure it can continue to operate effectively, and the directors believe that the Company is well placed to manage its business activities successfully. Accordingly the directors will continue to adopt the going concern basis in the preparation of its financial statements.”
Significant events
- “During the year ended 31 July 2025 the company's turnover fell by 21% over the previous year, reflecting on-going challenges in the economic climate and Higher Education Sector which continue to suppress recruitment activity, resulting in decreased jobs advertising volumes, although the strong client base has been maintained, ensuring the business is well placed to react quickly as the market recovers.”
- “There is a risk that there may be further contraction of the market as the education sector continues to navigate sector challenges through recruitment pauses and restructures, to mitigate this risk the business will look at opportunities across new sectors.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 46 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MASON, David Robert | Secretary | 2025-06-03 | — | — |
| DRINKWATER, Rosemary Ann | Director | 2006-05-04 | Aug 1960 | British |
| ENNEW, Christine, Professor | Director | 2026-01-06 | Apr 1960 | British |
| GLOVER, Philippa Jane | Director | 2022-02-01 | Mar 1972 | British |
| TWINE, Christopher Roland, Dr | Director | 2025-08-11 | Jul 1973 | British |
Show 46 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALDWIN, Jonathan Francis | Secretary | 2005-01-31 | 2011-12-22 |
| GLOVER, Philippa Jane | Secretary | 2020-02-01 | 2025-06-02 |
| GLOVER, Philippa Jane | Secretary | 2016-08-01 | 2017-12-15 |
| HUNT, Hugh James | Secretary | 1994-07-29 | 2005-01-31 |
| LANGLANDS, Jacob Mark Alexander | Secretary | 2017-12-15 | 2020-01-31 |
| OWEN, Nicola Cheryl | Secretary | 2011-12-22 | 2012-02-01 |
| SLOAN, Kenneth Mark | Secretary | 2012-02-01 | 2016-07-31 |
| PHILSEC LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1994-06-08 | 1994-07-29 |
| BALDWIN, Jonathan Francis | Director | 2004-06-24 | 2011-12-22 |
| CROFT, Stuart John | Director | 2013-10-08 | 2017-06-01 |
| DODD, Peter | Director | 2003-11-25 | 2004-07-31 |
| DODD, Peter | Director | 1994-11-10 | 1997-12-01 |
| DUNNE, Patrick Eamonn | Director | 2007-11-23 | 2012-11-06 |
| DYSON, Robert Graham, Professor | Director | 1997-12-01 | 2003-11-25 |
| ENNEW, Christine Thelma, Professor | Director | 2016-08-01 | 2017-08-01 |
| FISHER, Mark Peter Edmund | Director | 2013-10-01 | 2016-07-31 |
| FOLLETT, Brian Keith, Professor Sir | Director | 1994-07-29 | 2001-04-30 |
| FOY, Christopher | Director | 2004-08-01 | 2006-10-05 |
| GLOVER, Philippa Jane | Director | 2017-08-01 | 2017-12-15 |
| GREENWAY, Jennifer | Director | 2017-12-15 | 2022-01-31 |
| HAGEN, Stephen George Sidney | Director | 2003-11-25 | 2006-07-14 |
| HEARTH, John Dennis Miles | Director | 1997-12-01 | 2003-11-25 |
| HODGES, Stewart Dimont, Professor | Director | 1994-11-10 | 1997-12-01 |
| HUNT, Christopher William | Director | 2022-10-01 | 2025-07-23 |
| HUNT, Hugh James | Director | 1994-07-29 | 2005-01-31 |
| JONES, Timothy Simon, Professor | Director | 2016-02-01 | 2016-07-31 |
| LAMBERTS, Koenraad, Professor | Director | 2011-12-22 | 2013-09-18 |
| LAWRIE, Rupert Carol | Director | 2018-08-07 | 2022-05-31 |
| LEIGHFIELD, John Percival | Director | 2003-03-19 | 2003-11-25 |
| NICHOLLS, Jonathan William, Dr | Director | 1999-10-01 | 2003-12-31 |
| OWEN, Nicola Cheryl | Director | 2011-12-22 | 2012-02-01 |
| PALMER, Stuart Beaumont, Professor | Director | 2007-10-15 | 2010-11-09 |
| ROWE, David Norman Etheredge | Director | 2003-11-25 | 2007-10-15 |
| RUSHTON, James | Director | 1994-11-10 | 2003-11-25 |
| SANDBY-THOMAS, Rachel Mary | Director | 2016-09-07 | 2017-08-01 |
| SHATTOCK, Michael Lewis, Professor | Director | 1994-07-29 | 1999-10-01 |
| SLOAN, Kenneth Mark | Director | 2012-02-01 | 2016-09-06 |
| SMITH, Andrew Howard | Director | 2022-06-01 | 2022-09-30 |
| SMITH, Mark Edmund, Professor | Director | 2010-11-09 | 2011-12-22 |
| STEELE, Anthony | Director | 1994-11-10 | 2003-04-21 |
| THOMAS, Pamela Anne, Professor | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2017-08-01 |
| THRIFT, Nigel John, Professor Sir | Director | 2006-10-16 | 2016-01-31 |
| VANDELINDE, Vernon David, Professor | Director | 2001-11-06 | 2006-07-14 |
| WILLIAMS, Rhys John | Director | 1994-11-10 | 2002-09-30 |
| ZINGRAFF, Muriel Valerie Fabienne | Director | 2013-10-01 | 2026-01-06 |
| MEAUJO INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1994-06-08 | 1994-07-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 189 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-22 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-11-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-09 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-06-06 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-02-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- 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 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
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Turnover
-21%
£10,356,141 £8,185,231
-
Cash
-94.1%
£35,737 £2,123
-
Net assets
+0.3%
£555,796 £557,263
-
Employees
-5.9%
17 16
-
Operating profit
-33.9%
£6,970,710 £4,609,177
-
Profit before tax
-34.2%
£7,669,068 £5,044,532
-
Wages
+4.6%
£707,784 £740,393
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