PONSFORD LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-24 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+43.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
+0.7% vs 2024
Employees
63
-14.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£48K
+182.7% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- PONSFORD LIMITED 2005-12-09 → present
- PONSFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED 2005-06-28 → 2005-12-09
- WAKECO (281) LIMITED 2005-05-11 → 2005-06-28
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £7,489,342 | £7,450,479 | |
| Operating profit | -£118,902 | -£20,763 | |
| Profit before tax | -£57,780 | £47,796 | |
| Net profit | -£42,783 | £35,796 | |
| Cash | £1,471,743 | £2,108,308 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,480,142 | £5,501,938 | |
| Net assets | £5,347,142 | £5,382,938 | |
| Equity | £5,347,142 | £5,382,938 | |
| Average employees | 74 | 63 | |
| Wages | £2,159,665 | £2,007,739 |
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 | -1.6% | -0.3% | |
| Net margin | -0.6% | 0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -2.2% | -0.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 22.1% | 23.7% | |
| Current ratio | 4.66x | 4.33x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Hawsons Chartered Accountants
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After due consideration of all relevant factors, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.”
Significant events
- “The company has invested heavily in significant upgrades to both the inside of the retail store and to the warehouse and logistics operation. This will continue to develop through the following years with particular attention to green and carbon reduction initiatives taking priority in order to reduce the carbon footprint of the business in a socially responsible way.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, Suraj Narsinh | Director | 2020-09-01 | Apr 1978 | British |
| PONSFORD, Alan | Director | 2005-12-06 | Feb 1943 | British |
| PONSFORD, Barnaby Charles | Director | 2023-01-01 | Aug 1974 | British |
| PONSFORD, Helen Fiona | Director | 2023-01-01 | Mar 1976 | British |
| PONSFORD, Robert Angus | Director | 2005-12-06 | Jan 1971 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PONSFORD, Adrian William | Secretary | 2005-12-06 | 2024-05-17 |
| WS (SECRETARIES) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2005-05-11 | 2005-12-06 |
| CARTER, David Philip | Director | 2005-12-06 | 2015-08-31 |
| PONSFORD, Adrian William | Director | 2005-12-06 | 2025-06-28 |
| PONSFORD, Alan | Director | 2005-12-06 | 2005-12-06 |
| WS (DIRECTORS) LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2005-05-11 | 2005-12-06 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H Ponsford Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 68 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-17 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-02-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-03-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-03-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-0.5%
£7,489,342 £7,450,479
-
Cash
+43.3%
£1,471,743 £2,108,308
-
Net assets
+0.7%
£5,347,142 £5,382,938
-
Employees
-14.9%
74 63
-
Operating profit
+82.5%
-£118,902 -£20,763
-
Profit before tax
+182.7%
-£57,780 £47,796
-
Wages
-7%
£2,159,665 £2,007,739
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