SPARROW CRANE HIRE LIMITED

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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2027-01-13 (in 8mo)

Last made up 2025-12-30

Watchouts

1 item

Cash

£2M

+48.8% highest in 3 filed years

Net assets

£7M

+12.7% vs 2022

Employees

-14.1% vs 2022

Profit before tax

£1M

+32.3% vs 2022

Watchouts

Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating

1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

Name history

Renamed 1 time since incorporation

SPARROW CRANE HIRE LIMITED 2013-01-07 → present
SPARROW CRANEHIRE LIMITED 1996-12-30 → 2013-01-07

Net assets

3-year trend · vs Industrials median

SPARROW CRANE HIRE LIMITED·Industrials median · n=5350

Accounts

3-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31

Latest accounts filed cover 2024-12-31; financial figures currently reflect up to 2023-12-31.

Metric	2022-01-01	2022-12-31	2023-12-31
Turnover	—	£11,971,814	£11,487,751
Operating profit	—	£1,128,753	£1,434,383
Profit before tax	—	£913,021	£1,208,357
Net profit	—	£857,918	£821,944
Cash	£1,183,494	£1,521,478	£2,263,514
Total assets less current liabilities	—	£10,281,964	£11,269,453
Net assets	—	£6,456,168	£7,278,112
Equity	£5,598,250	£6,456,168	£7,278,112
Average employees	—	78	67
Wages	—	£3,196,322	£3,432,639

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	2022-01-01	2022-12-31	2023-12-31
Operating margin	—	9.4%	12.5%
Net margin	—	7.2%	7.2%
Return on capital employed	—	11.0%	12.7%
Interest cover	—	5.23x	6.35x

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.

People

3 active · 3 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
SPARROW, Pauline	Secretary	1996-12-30	—	British
SPARROW, Alexander George	Director	2012-05-01	Feb 1986	British
SPARROW, Timothy Roger	Director	1996-12-30	May 1958	British

Show 3 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED	Corporate Nominee Secretary	1996-12-30	1996-12-30
SPARROW, Gordon	Director	1997-02-03	2017-10-31
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED	Corporate Nominee Director	1996-12-30	1996-12-30

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name	Kind	Nature of control	Notified	Status
Mrs Pauline Sparrow	Individual	significant-influence-or-control-as-firm	2025-01-23	Active
Mr Lee Sadler	Individual	Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm	2016-12-01	Ceased 2024-08-12
Mr Philip Mitchell	Individual	Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm	2016-12-01	Ceased 2021-09-01

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 88 total filings

Date	Type	Category	Description
2026-01-19	MR01	mortgage	Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date	PDF
2026-01-08	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-10-04	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2025-08-19	MR01	mortgage	Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date	PDF
2025-01-23	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-01-23	PSC01	persons-with-significant-control	Notification of a person with significant control	PDF
2025-01-23	PSC07	persons-with-significant-control	Cessation of a person with significant control	PDF
2024-10-09	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full	PDF
2024-01-24	MR04	mortgage	Mortgage satisfy charge full	PDF
2024-01-24	MR04	mortgage	Mortgage satisfy charge full	PDF
2024-01-12	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with updates	PDF
2023-10-12	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2023-01-13	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-10-03	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2022-02-07	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2022-01-04	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2021-09-06	PSC07	persons-with-significant-control	Cessation of a person with significant control	PDF
2021-03-01	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2021-01-07	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2020-02-03	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 4
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 0
Officers resigned: 0

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

Year-on-year

FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31

Turnover

-4%

£11,971,814 £11,487,751
Cash

+48.8%

£1,521,478 £2,263,514

highest in 3 filed years
Net assets

+12.7%

£6,456,168 £7,278,112
Employees

-14.1%

78 67
Operating profit

+27.1%

£1,128,753 £1,434,383
Profit before tax

+32.3%

£913,021 £1,208,357
Wages

+7.4%

£3,196,322 £3,432,639

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

Heads up: a more recent set of accounts has been filed but isn't yet reflected here — the figures above are older than the company's latest filing.

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