DENTON ASSOCIATES (LONDON) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-24 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-40% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
+1.7% vs 2024
Employees
54
-3.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
+29.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DENTON ASSOCIATES (LONDON) LIMITED 1996-08-12 → present
- HALFCHECK LIMITED 1996-06-10 → 1996-08-12
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £36,651,806 | £42,702,967 | |
| Operating profit | £1,747,437 | £2,194,522 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,771,450 | £2,298,576 | |
| Net profit | £1,407,535 | £1,685,305 | |
| Cash | £3,592,383 | £2,156,024 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,949,204 | £6,810,969 | |
| Net assets | £6,518,723 | £6,629,028 | |
| Equity | £6,518,723 | £6,629,028 | |
| Average employees | 56 | 54 | |
| Wages | £6,446,724 | £6,939,795 |
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 | 4.8% | 5.1% | |
| Net margin | 3.8% | 3.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 25.1% | 32.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.47x | 1.53x | |
| Interest cover | 299.48x | 688.37x |
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
- Azets Audit Services Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Group structure
- DENTON ASSOCIATES (LONDON) LIMITED · parent
- Posture Limited 100%
Significant events
- “After year-end Heads of Terms were agreed and a due diligence process was undertaken, concluding in the shareholders of Denton Associates (Group) Ltd selling the entire share capital to Bowmer and Kirkland Limited on 21 August 2025.”
- “On that date Matthew Cruttenden and Michelle Mucklestone were appointed as directors.”
- “On the 21 August 2025, Bowmer and Kirkland Limited acquired 100% of the share capital of Denton Associates (Group) Limited, the previous ultimate parent company.”
- “The company had a guarantee in place, on behalf of all entities in group, to pay or discharge on demand any amounts due to a director of the company who holds preference shares in Denton Associates (Group) Ltd if this amount is unable to be paid to the director by Denton Associates (Holdings) Limited. This guarantee was satisfied on 18 April 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARLETT, Martin | Director | 2021-06-01 | Nov 1966 | British |
| CRUTTENDEN, Matthew Charles | Director | 2025-08-21 | Apr 1966 | British |
| CUMMINS, Kane Bruce | Director | 2021-06-01 | Dec 1991 | British |
| DOUGLAS, Richard Anthony | Director | 2006-01-03 | Jan 1967 | British |
| HALEWOOD, Michael Denton | Director | 1996-07-18 | Nov 1962 | British |
| MUCKLESTONE, Michelle Ann | Director | 2025-08-21 | Oct 1966 | British |
| PRICE, Terence Stanley | Director | 2020-01-16 | Apr 1969 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALEWOOD, Michael Denton | Secretary | 1996-11-14 | 2022-04-14 |
| MOULD, Justin Bruce Worsley | Secretary | 1996-07-18 | 2008-03-20 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-06-10 | 1996-07-18 |
| ANTHONY, Stuart Grant | Director | 1997-10-20 | 2004-08-31 |
| DUPONT, Nicholas Clive | Director | 2019-04-04 | 2020-07-27 |
| HILLICKS, Gregor James | Director | 2020-01-16 | 2020-12-15 |
| KEANE, David | Director | 2013-12-11 | 2014-08-04 |
| MOULD, Justin Bruce Worsley | Director | 1996-07-18 | 2008-03-20 |
| NOCK, David Geoffrey | Director | 2006-01-03 | 2011-05-10 |
| POSTLETHWAITE, John | Director | 1996-07-18 | 2004-07-30 |
| REDMAN, Christopher Robert | Director | 2012-09-26 | 2021-07-30 |
| SERLA, Srinivas | Director | 2020-07-08 | 2024-01-31 |
| WRIGHT, Trevor Alan | Director | 2014-07-10 | 2015-07-21 |
| INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-06-10 | 1996-07-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denton Associates (Holdings) Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 165 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-08-26 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-08-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-26 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-08-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-06 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-02-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-08-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-06-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-20 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2022-03-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change 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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+16.5%
£36,651,806 £42,702,967
-
Cash
-40%
£3,592,383 £2,156,024
-
Net assets
+1.7%
£6,518,723 £6,629,028
-
Employees
-3.6%
56 54
-
Operating profit
+25.6%
£1,747,437 £2,194,522
-
Profit before tax
+29.8%
£1,771,450 £2,298,576
-
Wages
+7.6%
£6,446,724 £6,939,795
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