APPLETHWAITE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-07 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-24
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£31K
-83.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£2M
-41.4% vs 2023
Employees
22
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£1M
+21.9% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £13,560,987 | £21,735,893 | |
| Operating profit | -£1,409,829 | -£1,098,335 | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,405,903 | -£1,098,335 | |
| Net profit | -£1,405,348 | -£1,097,662 | |
| Cash | £190,858 | £31,264 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,648,205 | £1,550,543 | |
| Net assets | £2,648,205 | £1,550,543 | |
| Equity | £2,648,205 | £1,550,543 | |
| Average employees | 22 | 22 | |
| Wages | £1,083,341 | £1,177,129 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -10.4% | -5.1% | |
| Net margin | -10.4% | -5.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -53.2% | -70.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 90.3% | 94.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.06x | 1.02x | |
| Interest cover | -4433.42x | — |
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
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Consequently, the directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- APPLETHWAITE LIMITED · parent
- Holbeck Homes (Cartmel) Limited 50%
Significant events
- “The business suffered as a result of material and labour shortages in 2022 and at the start of 2023, and a number of sites being developed in that year incurred considerable additional infrastructure cost by comparison to initial expectations, reducing overall margins significantly.”
- “2024 has seen the business exit a significant number of these very low margin units which has resulted in the continued losses reported.”
- “lengthy delays are being experienced in securing planning permission where opportunities do not benefit from a housing allocation in the Local Plan.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAWLINSON, Deborah Jane | Secretary | 2016-06-22 | — | — |
| HARTLEY, Jeremy Peter | Director | 2004-10-06 | Oct 1965 | British |
| HETHERINGTON, Colin | Director | 2024-01-18 | Apr 1973 | British |
| RACKHAM, Timothy Alistair | Director | 2023-06-12 | Nov 1971 | British |
| SMITH, Mark | Director | 2016-01-01 | Jan 1965 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOWE, Sarah Joelle | Secretary | 2010-07-14 | 2016-06-22 |
| MILLER, Janette Michele | Secretary | 2004-07-23 | 2009-12-04 |
| CARTER, James Francis | Director | 2004-07-23 | 2025-01-13 |
| COLLIER, Michael Edward | Director | 2004-07-23 | 2009-12-04 |
| DEWHURST, Andrew Paul | Director | 2010-09-16 | 2016-01-01 |
| EVENSON, Christopher Mark | Director | 2012-07-04 | 2018-06-30 |
| GUNDRY, Allan | Director | 2015-03-31 | 2022-05-31 |
| HAWORTH, Geoffrey Richard | Director | 2004-10-06 | 2008-03-31 |
| HENRY, Michael James David | Director | 2004-10-06 | 2015-05-31 |
| HETHERINGTON, Colin | Director | 2015-05-31 | 2024-01-17 |
| HETHERINGTON, Colin | Director | 2015-05-31 | 2015-05-31 |
| HUGHES, Eric Herbert Robert | Director | 2004-10-06 | 2014-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Wright Developments Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 109 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+60.3%
£13,560,987 £21,735,893
-
Cash
-83.6%
£190,858 £31,264
-
Net assets
-41.4%
£2,648,205 £1,550,543
-
Employees
0%
22 22
-
Operating profit
+22.1%
-£1,409,829 -£1,098,335
-
Profit before tax
+21.9%
-£1,405,903 -£1,098,335
-
Wages
+8.7%
£1,083,341 £1,177,129
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