AITCH GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-05 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-22
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
-52.3% vs 2023
Net assets
£52M
-25.9% vs 2023
Employees
29
-17.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£7M
+3.1% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £5,487,638 | £5,869,654 | |
| Operating profit | £597,254 | £593,485 | |
| Profit before tax | -£6,794,402 | -£6,586,705 | |
| Net profit | -£4,985,624 | -£5,930,220 | |
| Cash | £11,154,972 | £5,317,865 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £145,750,053 | £106,895,985 | |
| Net assets | £70,792,888 | £52,425,518 | |
| Equity | £70,792,888 | £52,425,518 | |
| Average employees | 35 | 29 | |
| Wages | £2,095,336 | £2,148,724 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 10.9% | 10.1% | |
| Net margin | -90.9% | -101.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.4% | 0.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.89x | 1.28x | |
| Interest cover | 0.09x | 0.08x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Leaman Mattei
- 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. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group's or the parent Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- AITCH GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Aitch Estates Limited 100%
- H Smith Holdings Limited 100%
- Aitch Shoreditch Limited 100%
- Aitch (Lloyds) Limited 100%
- Aitch Investment Properties Limited 100%
- Coastalview Limited 100%
- Stamford Works Limited 100%
- Gasbury Limited 100%
- Door To Door Properties Limited 100%
- H Smith (Copper House) Limited 100%
- Anworth Limited 100%
- Saliby Properties Limited 100%
- Aitch Estates (Chatham Place) Limited 100%
- Woodford Land Developments Limited 100%
- Textile Building Limited 100%
- Aitch Art Limited 100%
- Aitch Construction Limited 100%
- The Oval Crescent Limited 100%
- Chronos Investments Limited 50%
- Capital Block Management London Limited 100%
- Aitch Developments Limited 100%
- Regal Retirement Limited 100%
- Walters Build Limited 100%
- Empress Works Management Company Limited 100%
- Aitch Group Holdings Ltd 100%
- Construction (Dormant) Ltd 100%
- Loughton High Road (256) Limited 100%
- Loughton High Road Freehold Ltd 100%
- Arkley Stables Homes Ltd 100%
- Foresta Urbana SL 100%
Significant events
- “The external commercial environment is expected to remain competitive in 2025, with economic challenges faced due to cost pressures and high interest rates. However the Group is in a strong position with net assets of £52,425,518 (2023: £70,792,888).”
- “Going forward the Group will continue to identify opportunities for both investment and development principally in London and the South East.”
- “The group will also continue to grow its investment property portfolio and increase its rental income.”
- “On 19 December 2023 the Company increased its shareholding in Foresta Urbana SL from 75% to 100%.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUAIL, Laurence Richard | Director | 2024-02-23 | Nov 1980 | British |
| REYNOLDS, Chelsea | Director | 2017-01-22 | Jun 1987 | British |
| ROGERS, James Edward | Director | 2026-04-01 | Mar 1988 | British |
| SMITH, Henry Thomas | Director | 2011-09-20 | Jan 1962 | British |
| SPIRES, Christopher John | Director | 2017-11-15 | Jan 1966 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEEBLE, James Trevor | Director | 2011-09-20 | 2014-03-21 |
| KEEBLE, James Trevor | Director | 2011-09-20 | 2012-02-16 |
| RAHMAN, Enamur | Director | 2011-09-20 | 2015-03-06 |
| STEDMAN, Simon Christoffer | Director | 2015-02-24 | 2017-11-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Henry Thomas Smith | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 61 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-02 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-10-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-25 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-10-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-10-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-05-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2020-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-07-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2020-07-17 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2020-06-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
-
Turnover
+7%
£5,487,638 £5,869,654
-
Cash
-52.3%
£11,154,972 £5,317,865
-
Net assets
-25.9%
£70,792,888 £52,425,518
-
Employees
-17.1%
35 29
-
Operating profit
-0.6%
£597,254 £593,485
-
Profit before tax
+3.1%
-£6,794,402 -£6,586,705
-
Wages
+2.5%
£2,095,336 £2,148,724
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