WARDS SOLICITORS LLP
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Next accounts due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last filed for 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-12 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-28
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+17.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
+6.6% vs 2024
Employees
190
-1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3M
+26.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WARDS SOLICITORS LLP 2017-08-15 → present
- WARDS SOLICITORS BRISTOL LLP 2017-06-29 → 2017-08-15
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-05-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-05-31 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £14,362,332 | £15,942,442 | |
| Operating profit | £1,577,641 | £2,152,793 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,254,259 | £2,852,831 | |
| Net profit | £0 | £0 | |
| Cash | £1,943,452 | £2,278,053 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,543,095 | £7,047,019 | |
| Net assets | £6,118,095 | £6,523,050 | |
| Equity | £6,118,095 | £6,523,050 | |
| Average employees | 192 | 190 | |
| Wages | £7,232,636 | £7,869,471 |
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 | 11.0% | 13.5% | |
| Net margin | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 24.1% | 30.5% | |
| Current ratio | 5.11x | 5.01x | |
| Interest cover | 1.24x | 1.26x |
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
- PKF Francis Clark
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Partnership will continue in business.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRADLEY, Alison | Llp Designated Member | 2020-12-01 | Jan 1969 | — |
| HERBERT, Rebecca Anne | Llp Designated Member | 2019-01-02 | May 1975 | — |
| JONES, Heather Margaret | Llp Designated Member | 2019-01-02 | Jun 1974 | — |
| PARKMAN, Rebecca Elizabeth Ellen | Llp Designated Member | 2017-06-29 | Apr 1967 | — |
| PIERCE, Jenny | Llp Designated Member | 2017-06-29 | Dec 1965 | — |
| PITT, Matthew Lee | Llp Designated Member | 2023-01-03 | Jun 1983 | — |
| SCOFFHAM, Thomas William | Llp Designated Member | 2020-12-01 | Jan 1980 | — |
| JAKEWAYS, Laura Elizabeth | Llp Member | 2025-06-01 | Nov 1982 | — |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRY, Elizabeth Ann | Llp Designated Member | 2017-06-29 | 2025-05-31 |
| SHERIDAN, David James | Llp Designated Member | 2017-06-29 | 2021-05-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 36 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-14 | LLAD01 | address | Change registered office address limited liability partnership with date old address new address | |
| 2025-08-14 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2025-08-14 | LLAD01 | address | Change registered office address limited liability partnership with date old address new address | |
| 2025-06-30 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-30 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date | |
| 2025-06-30 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-01 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-19 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2024-02-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-05 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-05 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2023-07-05 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2023-02-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-20 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date | |
| 2022-07-11 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-09 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-08 | LLTM01 | officers | Termination member limited liability partnership with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- 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
+11%
£14,362,332 £15,942,442
-
Cash
+17.2%
£1,943,452 £2,278,053
-
Net assets
+6.6%
£6,118,095 £6,523,050
-
Employees
-1%
192 190
-
Operating profit
+36.5%
£1,577,641 £2,152,793
-
Profit before tax
+26.6%
£2,254,259 £2,852,831
-
Wages
+8.8%
£7,232,636 £7,869,471
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