SPICERHAART GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-13 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£265K
-88.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£2M
-11% vs 2023
Employees
116
+2.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
-0.9% 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 | £12,539,000 | £12,954,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,224,000 | £1,193,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,412,000 | £1,399,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,196,000 | £1,043,000 | |
| Cash | £2,397,000 | £265,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,619,000 | £2,614,000 | |
| Net assets | £2,619,000 | £2,332,000 | |
| Equity | £2,619,000 | £2,332,000 | |
| Average employees | 113 | 116 | |
| Wages | £4,773,000 | £4,659,000 |
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 | 9.8% | 9.2% | |
| Net margin | 9.5% | 8.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 46.7% | 45.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 66.8% | 72.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.21x | 1.12x | |
| Interest cover | 174.86x | 15.10x |
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
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have assessed the wider group's projected business activities and available financial resources and detailed cash forecasts. This includes a review of a base case and reasonably plausible downside scenarios and in all cases the group has sufficient means to continue as a going concern for a period of twelve months from the signing date. As the going concern assessment has been reviewed on a wider group basis, a letter of support has been received from the parent of the group, VRS Investments Limited, to cover the going concern period.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HURDLE, Mark Edward | Director | 2019-05-07 | Aug 1966 | British |
| SMITH, Paul Alick | Director | 2008-08-22 | Oct 1960 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLINGTON, Lucian Frank Erich | Director | 2008-08-22 | 2018-05-25 |
| Corporate Appointments Limited | Corporate Director | 2008-08-22 | 2008-08-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Paul Alick Smith | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Spicerhaart Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 65 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-17 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2020-02-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-08-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-05-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-01-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-09-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2018-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-02-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
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
+3.3%
£12,539,000 £12,954,000
-
Cash
-88.9%
£2,397,000 £265,000
-
Net assets
-11%
£2,619,000 £2,332,000
-
Employees
+2.7%
113 116
-
Operating profit
-2.5%
£1,224,000 £1,193,000
-
Profit before tax
-0.9%
£1,412,000 £1,399,000
-
Wages
-2.4%
£4,773,000 £4,659,000
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