DESIGNER CONTRACTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-07-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-14 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
-14.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
+2.6% vs 2024
Employees
297
-8.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£304K
-37.4% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DESIGNER CONTRACTS LIMITED 2006-07-19 → present
- HLW 256 LIMITED 2004-11-26 → 2006-07-19
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-10-31 | 2025-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £43,276,127 | £43,262,894 | |
| Operating profit | £466,381 | £280,118 | |
| Profit before tax | £486,409 | £304,254 | |
| Net profit | £320,291 | £181,472 | |
| Cash | £1,714,152 | £1,458,740 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,092,087 | £7,282,559 | |
| Net assets | £7,002,087 | £7,183,559 | |
| Equity | £7,002,087 | £7,183,559 | |
| Average employees | 324 | 297 | |
| Wages | £10,720,058 | £9,822,586 |
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 | 2024-10-31 | 2025-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.1% | 0.6% | |
| Net margin | 0.7% | 0.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.6% | 3.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.03x | 2.13x | |
| Interest cover | 669.13x | 1582.59x |
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
- Hawsons Chartered Accountants
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After due consideration of all relevant factors, including the review of the two year profit and cashflow projections under a number of scenarios, the director has a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, he continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.”
Significant events
- “strategic decision to close our showhouse design business”
- “five units re-negotiated in 2025”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KELSEY, Susan | Secretary | 2004-12-02 | — | British |
| KELSEY, Peter Anthony | Director | 2004-12-02 | Aug 1950 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATTISON, Kelly Louise | Secretary | 2004-11-26 | 2004-12-02 |
| DYSON, Roger Kenneth | Director | 2004-11-26 | 2004-12-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Peter Anthony Kelsey | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 72 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-01-14 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-01-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-05-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-06-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-14 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-01-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-01-14 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2023-01-14 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2022-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-01-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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 2025-10-31 vs 2024-10-31
-
Turnover
0%
£43,276,127 £43,262,894
-
Cash
-14.9%
£1,714,152 £1,458,740
-
Net assets
+2.6%
£7,002,087 £7,183,559
-
Employees
-8.3%
324 297
-
Operating profit
-39.9%
£466,381 £280,118
-
Profit before tax
-37.4%
£486,409 £304,254
-
Wages
-8.4%
£10,720,058 £9,822,586
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