DARENTH UNDERWRITING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-07 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-24
Watchouts
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£321K
-56.3% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£43K
-80.9% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The Directors do not consider the Company to be a going concern and the financial statements have been prepared on a break up basis.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross written premiums | £240,203 | £18,078 | |
| Net earned premiums | £728,212 | £49,670 | |
| Claims incurred | £294,747 | £24,205 | |
| Investment return | £119,967 | £90,083 | |
| Profit before tax | £225,267 | £43,124 | |
| Net profit | £172,339 | £36,188 | |
| Insurance contract liabilities | £2,284,716 | £1,789,130 | |
| Total assets | £3,389,977 | £2,398,429 | |
| Total liabilities | £2,655,240 | £2,077,571 | |
| Equity | £734,737 | £320,858 | |
| Average employees | — | — |
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 78.3% | 86.6% |
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
- PKF Littlejohn LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The Directors do not consider the Company to be a going concern and the financial statements have been prepared on a break up basis.”
Significant events
- “The Company has ceased to write insurance business in the Lloyd's insurance market as a Lloyd's Corporate Capital Member.”
- “The Company ceased underwriting at 31 December 2022.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARGENTA SECRETARIAT LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2002-10-29 | — | — |
| HUNTER, Jane Clare Marianne | Director | 2012-07-05 | Apr 1947 | British |
| HUNTER, Quentin Stuart | Director | 2014-09-11 | Apr 1972 | British |
| HUNTER, Roland Stuart | Director | 2014-09-11 | Mar 1974 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, Jane Clare Marianne | Secretary | 1999-05-27 | 2002-10-29 |
| HUNTER, Neville Stuart, Colonel | Director | 1999-05-27 | 2013-12-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watling Street Estates Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 239 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-06-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-10-24 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2018-10-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-10-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2018-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-06-05 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
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Gross written premiums
-92.5%
£240,203 £18,078
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Net earned premiums
-93.2%
£728,212 £49,670
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Profit before tax
-80.9%
£225,267 £43,124
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Equity
-56.3%
£734,737 £320,858
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Claims incurred
-91.8%
£294,747 £24,205
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Insurance contract liabilities
-21.7%
£2,284,716 £1,789,130
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Investment return
-24.9%
£119,967 £90,083
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