ORDNANCE SURVEY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-17 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£77M
+4.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£144M
+5.4% vs 2024
Employees
1,415
+0.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£18M
-19.9% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ORDNANCE SURVEY LIMITED 2015-02-03 → present
- 070714 LIMITED 2014-07-08 → 2015-02-03
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £186,842,000 | £194,597,000 | |
| Operating profit | £22,231,000 | £17,424,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £22,035,000 | £17,644,000 | |
| Net profit | £16,468,000 | £13,081,000 | |
| Cash | £73,604,000 | £76,777,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £142,582,000 | £151,611,000 | |
| Net assets | £136,177,000 | £143,558,000 | |
| Equity | £136,177,000 | £143,558,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,414 | 1,415 | |
| Wages | £63,231,000 | £65,947,000 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 11.9% | 9.0% | |
| Net margin | 8.8% | 6.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.6% | 11.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 33.7% | 32.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.71x | 1.85x | |
| Interest cover | 108.44x | 96.27x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- National Audit Office
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- ORDNANCE SURVEY LIMITED · parent
- Ordnance Survey Leisure Limited 100%
- Ordnance Survey International Services Limited 100%
- Ordnance Survey International Services FZ-LLZ 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 23 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'MEARA, Jonathan Robert | Secretary | 2015-02-27 | — | — |
| BOLTON, Nicholas Paul | Director | 2023-10-02 | Feb 1969 | British |
| HAMPSON, Harold Arthur | Director | 2026-01-29 | Apr 1965 | British |
| HENDERSON, David | Director | 2023-07-14 | Nov 1970 | British |
| HIRD, Philippa Jane | Director | 2018-06-11 | Apr 1964 | British |
| HUGHES, Colin | Director | 2025-03-09 | Mar 1958 | British |
| LEVETT, Alyson Margaret | Director | 2026-05-01 | Jan 1966 | British |
| MAWDSLEY, Lynn Christine | Director | 2022-08-09 | Jul 1959 | British |
| MOBED, Rohinton | Director | 2020-07-13 | May 1959 | British |
| POTTER, Carol Ann | Director | 2020-08-24 | Mar 1955 | British |
| SHOWELL, Steven David | Director | 2021-10-07 | Apr 1976 | British |
| STRENS, Fiona Elizabeth | Director | 2023-07-01 | Jul 1970 | British |
| YORWERTH, Michael Dean | Director | 2023-07-10 | Mar 1968 | British |
Show 23 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACKROYD, Neil Andrew Ross | Director | 2015-02-27 | 2019-12-13 |
| ASHWELL, Emily Frances | Director | 2018-08-15 | 2021-12-14 |
| BLAIR, Stephen | Director | 2019-06-17 | 2021-10-04 |
| BRAGG, Paul Roger | Director | 2018-01-02 | 2021-03-11 |
| CADRANEL, Jacques | Director | 2015-05-01 | 2022-07-31 |
| CARR, Michael Douglas | Director | 2015-03-31 | 2019-06-30 |
| CLARKE, John Francis | Director | 2018-10-05 | 2021-10-05 |
| CLIFFORD, Nigel Richard | Director | 2015-06-01 | 2018-05-31 |
| COPPIN, James Arthur | Director | 2021-12-14 | 2026-01-29 |
| HARRISON, Michael James | Director | 2016-01-11 | 2017-10-16 |
| HENDERSON, David Frank | Director | 2018-07-24 | 2018-07-24 |
| JONES, David Neil | Director | 2014-07-08 | 2015-03-31 |
| LAKE, Stephen Clyde | Director | 2015-03-31 | 2025-03-08 |
| LESTER, Craig Douglas | Director | 2015-03-11 | 2016-01-11 |
| LOVELESS, Andrew Stephen Patrick | Director | 2015-03-31 | 2017-05-31 |
| MARGETTS, Robert John, Sir | Director | 2015-03-31 | 2016-06-30 |
| MOSEY, Clive Adrian | Director | 2015-11-16 | 2017-11-03 |
| MURPHY, Kieran Francis | Director | 2016-05-17 | 2021-03-03 |
| NUNN, Ian Alan | Director | 2015-02-27 | 2015-08-28 |
| O'MEARA, Jonathan | Director | 2014-07-08 | 2015-03-31 |
| ROLFE, Iain | Director | 2017-10-16 | 2018-08-15 |
| ROLFE, Iain | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2017-09-13 |
| WHITE, Piers Adam | Director | 2015-03-31 | 2015-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretary Of State For Department For Science, Innovation And Technology | Legal person | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2023-05-03 | Ceased 2023-05-03 |
| Secretary Of State For Department For Science, Innovation And Technology | Legal person | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2023-05-03 | Active |
| The Secretary Of State For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | Legal person | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-05-03 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 99 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-05-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-05-11 | PSC03 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-05-10 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-05-10 | PSC03 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+4.2%
£186,842,000 £194,597,000
-
Cash
+4.3%
£73,604,000 £76,777,000
-
Net assets
+5.4%
£136,177,000 £143,558,000
-
Employees
+0.1%
1,414 1,415
-
Operating profit
-21.6%
£22,231,000 £17,424,000
-
Profit before tax
-19.9%
£22,035,000 £17,644,000
-
Wages
+4.3%
£63,231,000 £65,947,000
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