LONGWORTH GROUP LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-01 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-38.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£4M
+32.8% vs 2024
Employees
90
+7.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3M
+41.1% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- LONGWORTH GROUP LTD 2021-03-30 → present
- LONGWORTH SPECIALIST SERVICES LIMITED 2001-01-24 → 2021-03-30
- LINMY 101 LIMITED 2001-01-18 → 2001-01-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,422,313 | £24,364,803 | |
| Operating profit | £2,183,566 | £3,083,137 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,205,322 | £3,111,782 | |
| Net profit | £1,645,933 | £2,322,787 | |
| Cash | £3,541,735 | £2,187,458 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,988,647 | £3,769,716 | |
| Net assets | £2,826,106 | £3,753,253 | |
| Equity | £2,826,106 | £3,753,253 | |
| Average employees | 84 | 90 | |
| Wages | £3,631,514 | £3,955,257 |
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 | 8.9% | 12.7% | |
| Net margin | 6.7% | 9.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 73.1% | 81.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.36x | 1.46x | |
| Interest cover | 72.57x | 220.33x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- DSG Audit
- 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. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- LONGWORTH GROUP LTD · parent
- Longworth Building Services Ltd 100%
- Longworth Hard Metals Limited 80%
- Longworth Architectural Louvres Limited 100%
Significant events
- “recognised by being a finalist in the prestigious Construction News Award 2025 for the "Best place to Work" SME category.”
- “rewarded again in the year by a number of Safety and Quality awards and the National Façade Award for Specialist Metal Rainscreen Cladding for its project at Project Dexter, Harwell Campus.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, Paul | Secretary | 2006-05-16 | — | British |
| BARNETT, Stephen Thomas | Director | 2010-03-01 | Feb 1981 | British |
| JONES, Steven Ellis | Director | 2007-01-18 | Feb 1981 | British |
| SMITH, Karl Thomas | Director | 2015-11-17 | May 1987 | British |
| SMITH, Lee | Director | 2022-11-18 | Sep 1980 | English |
| SMITH, Paul | Director | 2001-02-01 | Jun 1973 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOARDMAN, Oswald Lawrence | Secretary | 2001-02-01 | 2006-05-16 |
| LINMY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2001-01-18 | 2001-02-01 |
| ANDREWS, Geoffrey John | Director | 2006-05-16 | 2010-02-19 |
| BOARDMAN, Oswald Lawrence | Director | 2001-02-01 | 2006-05-16 |
| HUGHES, Robert Alan | Director | 2006-05-16 | 2023-10-31 |
| LINMY DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2001-01-18 | 2001-02-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longworth Specialist Services Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75% | 2020-08-28 | Active |
| Mr Paul Smith | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-08-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 103 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-03-30 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-03-30 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-01-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-28 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2023-12-28 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2023-11-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-22 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2022-11-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-18 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-02-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-02-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-30 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-03-30 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2021-03-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-03-04 | 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 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
-
Turnover
-0.2%
£24,422,313 £24,364,803
-
Cash
-38.2%
£3,541,735 £2,187,458
-
Net assets
+32.8%
£2,826,106 £3,753,253
-
Employees
+7.1%
84 90
-
Operating profit
+41.2%
£2,183,566 £3,083,137
-
Profit before tax
+41.1%
£2,205,322 £3,111,782
-
Wages
+8.9%
£3,631,514 £3,955,257
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