RDS DRIVING SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-04-17 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-20
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-24 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+3.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
-16.2% vs 2024
Employees
100
+9.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
-17.9% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- RDS DRIVING SERVICES LIMITED 2011-01-07 → present
- 3681ST SINGLE MEMBER SHELF TRADING COMPANY LIMITED 2010-09-10 → 2011-01-07
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-20
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-20 | 2025-07-20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £17,266,164 | £18,176,474 | |
| Operating profit | £2,987,105 | £2,259,575 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,990,223 | £2,456,423 | |
| Net profit | £4,389,916 | £1,837,018 | |
| Cash | £2,288,479 | £2,366,862 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,727,304 | £9,218,495 | |
| Net assets | £9,335,422 | £7,822,440 | |
| Equity | £9,335,422 | £7,822,440 | |
| Average employees | 91 | 100 | |
| Wages | £2,731,747 | £3,049,323 |
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 | 2024-07-20 | 2025-07-20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 17.3% | 12.4% | |
| Net margin | 25.4% | 10.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 27.8% | 24.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.99x | 1.68x | |
| Interest cover | 135.02x | 81.39x |
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
- UNW LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared financial forecasts and projections covering a period of at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements, taking account of anticipated developments within the business as well as reasonably possible changes in trading performance. These show that the company, and the group of which it is part, should retain sufficient financial resources to meet their liabilities as they fall due in the normal course of business for at least the next twelve months following approval of these financial statements and, accordingly, they continue to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “Demand for driving lessons throughout the year continued to remain high which helped to drive further growth within the franchisee base and kept instructor diaries booked up for many weeks ahead.”
- “The instructor training business continued to perform strongly with further growth in both sales volume and revenue year on year, ensuring a strong pipeline of new potential franchisees for the years ahead.”
- “The accountancy services business also had a strong year growing its client base to record levels and developing digital solutions that will help the business and its clients transition over to HMRC's new Making Tax Digital regime when it goes live in April 2026.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLARKE, Simon Liddiard | Secretary | 2015-09-17 | — | — |
| CLARKE, Simon Liddiard | Director | 2022-01-05 | Jan 1966 | British |
| GOLDIN, Sebastian Paul | Director | 2022-01-05 | Apr 1968 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COWAN, David Jonathan | Secretary | 2014-01-30 | 2015-06-05 |
| DOWNES, Gareth | Secretary | 2011-05-06 | 2014-01-30 |
| WESTON, Philip Richard | Secretary | 2015-06-05 | 2015-09-17 |
| SISEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2010-09-10 | 2010-12-10 |
| BLASE, Robert Edgar | Director | 2011-03-31 | 2013-09-09 |
| COWAN, David | Director | 2011-05-06 | 2015-06-05 |
| FARADAY, Matthew | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2011-03-15 |
| MCINTOSH, Ian | Director | 2015-09-17 | 2022-01-05 |
| SEYMOUR, Michael John | Director | 2010-09-10 | 2010-12-10 |
| SOYE, Andrew James | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2011-05-06 |
| WESTON, Philip Richard | Director | 2015-06-05 | 2019-04-05 |
| LOVITING LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2010-09-10 | 2010-12-10 |
| SERJEANTS' INN NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2010-09-10 | 2010-12-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelso Place Asset Management Llp | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2016-09-10 | Ceased 2016-09-10 |
| Driving Success Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 87 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-08-21 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-08-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-21 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-08-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-21 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-08-11 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-04-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-17 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2022-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-11-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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 2025-07-20 vs 2024-07-20
-
Turnover
+5.3%
£17,266,164 £18,176,474
-
Cash
+3.4%
£2,288,479 £2,366,862
-
Net assets
-16.2%
£9,335,422 £7,822,440
-
Employees
+9.9%
91 100
-
Operating profit
-24.4%
£2,987,105 £2,259,575
-
Profit before tax
-17.9%
£2,990,223 £2,456,423
-
Wages
+11.6%
£2,731,747 £3,049,323
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