STARR SYNDICATE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-31 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-17% vs 2023
Net assets
£72M
+13.9% vs 2023
Employees
359
+10.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£12M
-69.9% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £391,303,929 | £354,361,749 | |
| Operating profit | £37,034,841 | £8,922,906 | |
| Profit before tax | £38,371,386 | £11,547,813 | |
| Net profit | £24,846,553 | £8,782,061 | |
| Cash | £3,609,340 | £2,994,811 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £63,232,024 | £72,014,085 | |
| Equity | £63,232,024 | £72,014,085 | |
| Average employees | 325 | 359 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 9.5% | 2.5% | |
| Net margin | 6.3% | 2.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 95.5% | 94.8% |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are confident that the Company and the Syndicate are going concerns.”
Significant events
- “Results in the 2024 calendar year have been mixed across the various underwriting divisions of Syndicate 1919.”
- “The macroeconomy has again been challenging in 2024 with ongoing inflationary pressures resulting in excess inflation loadings continuing to be held.”
- “During 2024, Lloyd's introduced changes to the syndicate accounts process to rationalise and standardise financial reporting across the market.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAHIA, Amandeep | Secretary | 2024-11-19 | — | — |
| BROUGHTON, Graham John Lytton | Director | 2014-07-28 | Aug 1977 | British |
| SCOTT, Stuart David | Director | 2024-04-08 | Dec 1977 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BULL, Ralph | Secretary | 2006-08-17 | 2007-03-20 |
| MISSEN, Adrian | Secretary | 2012-07-02 | 2024-11-19 |
| MOFFATT, John Scott | Secretary | 2007-03-20 | 2012-06-22 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2006-08-17 | 2006-08-17 |
| BLAKEY, Steven George | Director | 2006-08-17 | 2022-12-06 |
| BUCHANAN, Colin William | Director | 2015-05-05 | 2018-01-12 |
| BULL, Ralph | Director | 2007-03-20 | 2011-10-26 |
| D'ARCY, Andrew Michael | Director | 2013-05-28 | 2014-07-25 |
| FRENCH, David | Director | 2006-09-13 | 2018-01-12 |
| HANCOCK, Christopher Ernest | Director | 2013-05-28 | 2015-01-15 |
| HAYMAN, Jeffrey Lawrence | Director | 2013-05-28 | 2013-11-27 |
| HERBERT, James Richard | Director | 2018-01-12 | 2024-04-08 |
| NAVARRO, Edward Gregory | Director | 2012-05-31 | 2013-05-28 |
| SHAAK, Richard Nathan | Director | 2007-03-20 | 2025-09-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 109 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-11-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-11-19 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-11-19 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-08-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-9.4%
£391,303,929 £354,361,749
-
Cash
-17%
£3,609,340 £2,994,811
-
Net assets
+13.9%
£63,232,024 £72,014,085
-
Employees
+10.5%
325 359
-
Operating profit
-75.9%
£37,034,841 £8,922,906
-
Profit before tax
-69.9%
£38,371,386 £11,547,813
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