BLACKWELL EARTHMOVING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last filed for 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-17 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
+56.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£1M
-84.2% vs 2024
Employees
261
+25.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£4M
-190.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BLACKWELL EARTHMOVING LIMITED 2020-02-26 → present
- BLACKWELL EARTHWORKS LIMITED 2020-02-13 → 2020-02-26
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £38,669,000 | £81,316,000 | |
| Operating profit | £6,003,000 | -£2,310,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,298,000 | -£3,890,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,649,000 | -£6,151,000 | |
| Cash | £4,824,000 | £7,546,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,764,000 | £32,666,000 | |
| Net assets | £7,253,000 | £1,146,000 | |
| Equity | £7,253,000 | £1,146,000 | |
| Average employees | 208 | 261 | |
| Wages | £14,663,000 | £19,258,000 |
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 | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 15.5% | -2.8% | |
| Net margin | 6.9% | -7.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 38.1% | -7.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.37x | 1.13x | |
| Interest cover | 3.52x | -1.46x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company relies on the Group for support. Hargreaves Services plc has provided a letter of support covering 12 months from the date the accounts were approved by the directors. ...the Directors have a reasonable expectation that both the Company and the Group have 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
8 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN, Richard David | Director | 2023-12-01 | Jun 1983 | Australian |
| BANHAM, Gordon Frank Colenso | Director | 2020-02-13 | Jun 1964 | British |
| DOWNER, Justin John | Director | 2023-12-01 | Mar 1970 | British |
| FRASER, Niall Keith | Director | 2020-12-07 | Feb 1970 | British |
| FRIEL, Graeme George | Director | 2023-12-01 | May 1971 | British |
| HICKS, Simon Angus | Director | 2025-06-01 | Sep 1968 | British |
| WATSON, John Raymond | Director | 2024-08-01 | Jun 1986 | British |
| HARGREAVES CORPORATE DIRECTOR LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2020-12-07 | — | — |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARNEY, Matthew | Director | 2021-11-15 | 2023-02-06 |
| FRASER, Niall Keith | Director | 2020-02-13 | 2020-03-30 |
| KEMP, Patrick James | Director | 2020-03-30 | 2025-08-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hargreaves Services Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-02-13 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 39 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type full | |
| 2026-02-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-11-09 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-02-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-14 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2022-04-14 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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 2025-05-31 vs 2024-05-31
-
Turnover
+110.3%
£38,669,000 £81,316,000
-
Cash
+56.4%
£4,824,000 £7,546,000
-
Net assets
-84.2%
£7,253,000 £1,146,000
-
Employees
+25.5%
208 261
-
Operating profit
-138.5%
£6,003,000 -£2,310,000
-
Profit before tax
-190.5%
£4,298,000 -£3,890,000
-
Wages
+31.3%
£14,663,000 £19,258,000
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