HOWARD SAWSTON LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-01 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-17
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+98.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£39M
+13.4% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£8M
-37.1% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Real Estate median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,266,337 | £4,975,587 | |
| Operating profit | £1,786,807 | £2,492,052 | |
| Profit before tax | £12,169,839 | £7,655,800 | |
| Net profit | £8,781,489 | £5,059,754 | |
| Cash | £1,241,525 | £2,463,356 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £69,122,295 | £75,511,557 | |
| Net assets | £33,959,693 | £38,519,447 | |
| Equity | £33,959,693 | £38,519,447 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| 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 | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 54.7% | 50.1% | |
| Net margin | 268.8% | 101.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 2.6% | 3.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.06x | 0.05x | |
| Interest cover | 1.61x | 1.10x |
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
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On the basis of those assurances, the Directors consider that there is reasonable expectation that the company will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “In October 2024, the company entered into an £8,000,000 floating loan facility that matures in September 2025. Interest was initially payable at a rate of 2.75% pa over SONIA and in March 2024 the margin reduced to 1.85%. The loan is secured on the freehold investment properties of the Company, as disclosed in note 9. Loan facility fees were £80,000.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEWES, Nicholas Cecil John | Director | 2010-11-17 | Apr 1967 | British |
| MEAKIN, Richard John | Director | 2021-05-01 | Apr 1977 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMIES, Thomas George Timothy | Secretary | 2010-11-17 | 2013-09-30 |
| AMIES, Thomas George Timothy | Director | 2010-11-17 | 2013-09-30 |
| BAUMKER, Werner Manfred, Dr | Director | 2019-06-10 | 2023-02-28 |
| HOWARD, Gavin Edward Oliver | Director | 2017-09-13 | 2019-06-11 |
| JONES, Alun Huw | Director | 2014-12-31 | 2020-12-31 |
| SUMMERS, Michael Peter | Director | 2010-11-17 | 2016-12-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Commercial Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-09-25 | Active |
| Howard Crescent Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-11-16 | Ceased 2016-11-16 |
| Howard Crescent Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-09-25 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 53 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-10-07 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-10-07 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-06-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-07 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-10-07 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-10-02 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-08-09 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-08-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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 2024-09-30 vs 2023-09-30
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Turnover
+52.3%
£3,266,337 £4,975,587
-
Cash
+98.4%
£1,241,525 £2,463,356
-
Net assets
+13.4%
£33,959,693 £38,519,447
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+39.5%
£1,786,807 £2,492,052
-
Profit before tax
-37.1%
£12,169,839 £7,655,800
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