EAST CAMBS TRADING COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-27 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£760K
+57.7% vs 2024
Net assets
-£1M
-122.2% vs 2024
Employees
32
+14.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£758K
+15.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- EAST CAMBS TRADING COMPANY LIMITED 2016-03-14 → present
- EAST CAMBS TRADING COMPANY LTD 2016-03-14 → 2016-03-14
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 | £5,582,856 | £3,864,324 | |
| Operating profit | -£717,566 | -£676,983 | |
| Profit before tax | -£893,457 | -£758,060 | |
| Net profit | -£854,518 | -£768,178 | |
| Cash | £481,674 | £759,830 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,445,959 | £4,468,758 | |
| Net assets | -£628,470 | -£1,396,648 | |
| Equity | -£628,470 | -£1,396,648 | |
| Average employees | 28 | 32 | |
| Wages | £888,545 | £1,081,702 |
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 | -12.9% | -17.5% | |
| Net margin | -15.3% | -19.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -16.1% | -15.1% | |
| Current ratio | 4.51x | 6.55x | |
| Interest cover | -3.70x | -7.69x |
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
- Abridged
- Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)
- Auditor
- Price Bailey LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors regularly review the plans of the business and are pleased to report that in the first quarter of the 2025/26 financial year, sales of all the remaining properties at Arbour Square and Eden Square in Ely were completed... Further, a contract has been signed with a local housing association for them to acquire 100% of the 27-home scheme currently in progress on phase 2 of Arbour Square, Ely.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRIMA, Emma Louise | Secretary | 2016-03-14 | — | — |
| EDGAR, Isabel Ruth | Director | 2023-11-01 | Jul 1975 | British |
| GRIMA, Emma Louise | Director | 2026-02-05 | Aug 1985 | British |
| REMINGTON, Paul James, Dr | Director | 2016-03-14 | Sep 1950 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIMA, Emma Louise | Secretary | 2017-04-03 | 2017-04-03 |
| AMBROSE-SMITH, David | Director | 2019-05-30 | 2019-10-07 |
| BAILEY, Anna Marie, Cllr | Director | 2017-06-15 | 2019-10-07 |
| BONNETT, Sally Marie | Director | 2022-04-21 | 2023-10-31 |
| GRIMA, Emma Louise | Director | 2016-03-14 | 2022-04-11 |
| HILL, John | Director | 2016-03-14 | 2025-12-31 |
| PALMER, James Philip | Director | 2016-03-14 | 2017-05-05 |
| ROBERTS, Charles George John, Councillor | Director | 2016-03-14 | 2019-05-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Cambridgeshire District Council | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| East Cambridgeshire District Council | Legal person | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 45 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-02-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-01-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-20 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-20 | PSC06 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-25 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-08-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-04-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-03-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
-30.8%
£5,582,856 £3,864,324
-
Cash
+57.7%
£481,674 £759,830
-
Net assets
-122.2%
-£628,470 -£1,396,648
-
Employees
+14.3%
28 32
-
Operating profit
+5.7%
-£717,566 -£676,983
-
Profit before tax
+15.2%
-£893,457 -£758,060
-
Wages
+21.7%
£888,545 £1,081,702
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