3B CONSTRUCTION LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last filed for 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-22 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+61.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£12M
-3.1% vs 2024
Employees
113
+0.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£241K
-93% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £33,107,224 | £30,225,006 | |
| Operating profit | £3,854,124 | £470,280 | |
| Profit before tax | £3,455,345 | £241,140 | |
| Net profit | £2,623,708 | £78,042 | |
| Cash | £1,750,272 | £2,819,175 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £19,550,407 | £18,016,551 | |
| Net assets | £12,830,254 | £12,428,296 | |
| Equity | £12,830,254 | £12,428,296 | |
| Average employees | 112 | 113 | |
| Wages | £5,680,088 | £5,670,578 |
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 | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 11.6% | 1.6% | |
| Net margin | 7.9% | 0.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 19.7% | 2.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 50.9% | 53.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.52x | 1.32x | |
| Interest cover | 13.20x | 1.80x |
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
- Dodd & Co Audit 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. 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 company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “During 2024/25, the company won some major contracts which are scheduled to begin in 2025/26. As a consequence, they have continued to invest in their own workforce in order to continue to meet the demand for its services. It also holds a sizeable land bank which it aims to develop once economic factors make it favourable to do so.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARR, Stuart Duncan | Secretary | 2003-05-18 | — | British |
| BARR, Graeme Hamilton | Director | 2003-05-18 | Jul 1975 | British |
| BARR, James Iain | Director | 2003-05-18 | Oct 1970 | British |
| BARR, Stuart Duncan | Director | 2003-05-18 | Jul 1973 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2003-05-08 | 2003-05-13 |
| FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD | Corporate Nominee Director | 2003-05-08 | 2003-05-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Andrew Duncan Barr | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-05-17 |
| Mrs Margaret Murray Barr | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-05-17 |
| Mr Graeme Hamilton Barr | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-08-29 |
| Mr James Iain Barr | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-08-29 |
| Mr Stuart Duncan Barr | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-08-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 141 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-11-19 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2021-10-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-06-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-08-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2019-08-20 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2019-08-20 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation 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 2025-05-31 vs 2024-05-31
-
Turnover
-8.7%
£33,107,224 £30,225,006
-
Cash
+61.1%
£1,750,272 £2,819,175
-
Net assets
-3.1%
£12,830,254 £12,428,296
-
Employees
+0.9%
112 113
-
Operating profit
-87.8%
£3,854,124 £470,280
-
Profit before tax
-93%
£3,455,345 £241,140
-
Wages
-0.2%
£5,680,088 £5,670,578
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