WILLIAMSONS SOLICITORS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-20 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£258K
+65.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£6M
+9.3% vs 2024
Employees
121
-5.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
+15.9% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,282,097 | £6,745,973 | |
| Operating profit | £1,380,832 | £1,652,311 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,670,458 | £1,936,434 | |
| Net profit | £1,258,884 | £1,441,799 | |
| Cash | £155,682 | £257,720 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,451,348 | £6,819,795 | |
| Net assets | £5,863,048 | £6,410,187 | |
| Equity | £5,863,048 | £6,410,187 | |
| Average employees | 128 | 121 | |
| Wages | £3,066,457 | £3,233,965 |
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 22.0% | 24.5% | |
| Net margin | 20.0% | 21.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 21.4% | 24.2% | |
| Current ratio | 5.33x | 6.01x | |
| Interest cover | 13.12x | 7.42x |
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
- Forrester Boyd Robson Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WATERHOUSE, Neil | Secretary | 2023-01-01 | — | — |
| BISBY, Rebecca | Director | 2023-03-03 | Feb 1981 | British |
| CLUBLEY, Sarah Jane | Director | 2009-12-01 | May 1966 | British |
| COUSINS, Jane Frances | Director | 2016-08-01 | Oct 1977 | British |
| HEWSON, Amanda May Louise | Director | 2023-03-03 | Nov 1987 | British |
| MOORE, Charles Hugo | Director | 2025-03-06 | Sep 1981 | British |
| WALKER, Wayne Michael | Director | 2023-02-01 | Feb 1980 | British |
| WATERHOUSE, Neil | Director | 2022-09-01 | May 1970 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLUBLEY, Sarah | Secretary | 2009-12-01 | 2009-12-02 |
| COOK, Brian | Secretary | 2009-12-02 | 2023-01-31 |
| AULD, John Wills-Rust | Director | 2022-09-01 | 2024-10-02 |
| COLLAR, Nigel Duncan | Director | 2009-12-01 | 2015-02-02 |
| COOK, Brian George | Director | 2015-01-13 | 2023-01-31 |
| GRAY, Nicholas William | Director | 2016-08-01 | 2023-01-31 |
| SUTHERS, James Edmund | Director | 2016-08-01 | 2022-05-17 |
| WADDINGTON, Willam Ogden | Director | 2009-12-01 | 2020-03-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Jane Frances Cousins | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2023-01-31 | Ceased 2024-04-04 |
| Williamsons Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-03-02 | Ceased 2023-01-31 |
| Williamsons Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-02-01 | Active |
| Miss Sarah Jane Clubley | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-04-04 |
| Mr William Ogden Waddington | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-03-10 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 96 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-10 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-10 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-05 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-12-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-10-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-30 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-30 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-30 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
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Turnover
+7.4%
£6,282,097 £6,745,973
-
Cash
+65.5%
£155,682 £257,720
-
Net assets
+9.3%
£5,863,048 £6,410,187
-
Employees
-5.5%
128 121
-
Operating profit
+19.7%
£1,380,832 £1,652,311
-
Profit before tax
+15.9%
£1,670,458 £1,936,434
-
Wages
+5.5%
£3,066,457 £3,233,965
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