CONTRACT VEHICLES RENTALS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-20 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-66.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
+8.6% vs 2024
Employees
33
-8.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
+26.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CONTRACT VEHICLES RENTALS LIMITED 2020-09-23 → present
- HAMSARD 3577 LIMITED 2020-06-23 → 2020-09-23
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 | £41,150,000 | £39,500,000 | |
| Operating profit | £975,000 | £1,230,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £975,000 | £1,230,000 | |
| Net profit | £829,000 | £1,185,000 | |
| Cash | £8,430,000 | £2,821,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £32,188,000 | £29,151,000 | |
| Net assets | £13,854,000 | £15,039,000 | |
| Equity | £13,854,000 | £15,039,000 | |
| Average employees | 36 | 33 | |
| Wages | £1,628,000 | £1,862,000 |
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 | 2.4% | 3.1% | |
| Net margin | 2.0% | 3.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.0% | 4.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 75.9% | 75.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.93x | 1.60x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On this basis, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Statutory profit after tax for the period was £1,184k (2024: £829k). Operating profit before depreciation of tangible fixed assets, amortisation of acquired goodwill and intangible assets and exceptional items for the period was £1,531k (2024: £1,278k).”
- “The securitisation's revolving period to November 2026 within the EFP facility during the financial year and receiving the cash injection of £50,000k as a zero-coupon junior mezzanine note by Bridgepoint into the EFP facility.”
- “Since the balance sheet date, the Group has observed a further fall in the expected residual values of BEV's and has considered the impact on its forecasts. The Directors have concluded that the Group still has sufficient liquidity to continue as a going concern.”
- “Restatement of intercompany debtors, prepayments and accrued income, other creditors, reserves, turnover and cost of sales for the prior period due to writing off an aged balance relating to a previous period. This resulted in intercompany debtors balance reducing by £34k, other creditors increasing by £780k, profit and loss account reserves decreasing by £814k, turnover falling by £385k and cost of sales increasing by £429k.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, Manisha | Secretary | 2020-09-20 | — | — |
| ABBOTT, Joshua | Director | 2024-06-01 | Jul 1991 | British |
| BURNS, Eric Ross | Director | 2022-04-01 | Oct 1973 | British |
| JENKINS, Martin Alexander | Director | 2020-09-20 | Oct 1968 | British |
| SMITHIES, Noelle Lesley | Director | 2023-06-01 | Dec 1973 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2020-06-23 | 2020-09-20 |
| BUCHAN, Timothy Peter | Director | 2020-09-20 | 2022-04-01 |
| BUTLER, Robert Alan | Director | 2020-09-20 | 2021-07-31 |
| HOLLAND, Martin Peter | Director | 2021-08-01 | 2023-03-31 |
| JONES, Jonathan James | Director | 2020-06-23 | 2020-09-20 |
| PARKES, Carol | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2023-06-01 |
| PHILLIPS, Mark Trevor, Mr. | Director | 2020-09-20 | 2022-04-01 |
| RODMAN, Philip Anthony | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2026-03-31 |
| SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS DIRECTORS LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2020-06-23 | 2020-09-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Vehicles Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-09-20 | Active |
| Squire Patton Boggs Directors Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-06-23 | Ceased 2020-09-20 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 56 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-12-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-21 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2022-04-21 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2022-04-21 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2022-04-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-04-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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%
£41,150,000 £39,500,000
-
Cash
-66.5%
£8,430,000 £2,821,000
-
Net assets
+8.6%
£13,854,000 £15,039,000
-
Employees
-8.3%
36 33
-
Operating profit
+26.2%
£975,000 £1,230,000
-
Profit before tax
+26.2%
£975,000 £1,230,000
-
Wages
+14.4%
£1,628,000 £1,862,000
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