RATHBONES LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-13 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£235K
-19.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£622K
+16.3% vs 2023
Employees
11
+22.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£84K
-71.4% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- RATHBONES LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED 2022-12-07 → present
- RATHBONE TRUST LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED 2016-12-07 → 2022-12-07
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,554,700 | £1,807,505 | |
| Operating profit | £30,344 | -£136,996 | |
| Profit before tax | £292,774 | £83,626 | |
| Net profit | £275,679 | £87,122 | |
| Cash | £291,979 | £234,911 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £535,241 | £622,363 | |
| Net assets | £535,241 | £622,363 | |
| Equity | £535,241 | £622,363 | |
| Average employees | 9 | 11 | |
| Wages | £707,846 | £868,252 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.0% | -7.6% | |
| Net margin | 17.7% | 4.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 5.7% | -22.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 81.8% | 59.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.20x | 1.67x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have, at the time of approving the financial statements, a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, Ali | Secretary | 2016-12-07 | — | — |
| GUILDER, Aaron Thomas | Director | 2023-06-15 | Feb 1977 | British |
| HORDERN, Christopher Anthony Edward | Director | 2016-12-07 | Dec 1966 | British |
| PIKE, Alexandra | Director | 2020-01-01 | Sep 1981 | British |
| WAKEFIELD, Matthew James | Director | 2016-12-07 | Mar 1972 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWBIGGING, Bruce Robert | Director | 2016-12-07 | 2023-06-15 |
| WARREN, Andrew Jonathan | Director | 2016-12-07 | 2021-09-01 |
| WHATELY, Julian Richard | Director | 2016-12-07 | 2020-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rathbone Trust Company Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-12-07 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 30 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-12-07 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-08-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-03 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-08-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-07 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2022-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-09-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2021-09-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-05-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-02-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-02-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2020-09-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+16.3%
£1,554,700 £1,807,505
-
Cash
-19.5%
£291,979 £234,911
-
Net assets
+16.3%
£535,241 £622,363
-
Employees
+22.2%
9 11
-
Operating profit
-551.5%
£30,344 -£136,996
-
Profit before tax
-71.4%
£292,774 £83,626
-
Wages
+22.7%
£707,846 £868,252
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