ASHTONS LEGAL LLP
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-14 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+162.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£13M
+27% vs 2024
Employees
398
+0.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£8M
+27.5% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £26,954,000 | £29,954,000 | |
| Operating profit | £4,336,000 | £6,156,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,069,000 | £7,738,000 | |
| Net profit | — | — | |
| Cash | £977,000 | £2,566,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £12,898,000 | £15,503,000 | |
| Net assets | £10,436,000 | £13,255,000 | |
| Equity | £10,436,000 | £13,255,000 | |
| Average employees | 395 | 398 | |
| Wages | £13,131,000 | £14,399,000 |
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 | 16.1% | 20.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 33.6% | 39.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 44.1% | 38.5% | |
| Current ratio | 3.04x | 3.36x | |
| Interest cover | 5.00x | 4.42x |
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
- Ensors
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the members have a reasonable expectation that the limited liability partnership has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the members continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- ASHTONS LEGAL LLP · parent
- Ashtons Legal Trust Corporation Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 1 September 2025 our auditors, Ensors Accountants LLP, merged with Azets Audit Services Limited. Accordingly Ensors Accountants LLP formally resigned as the company's auditors with the members duly appointing Azets Audit Services Limited, trading as Ensors to fill the vacancy arising.”
- “An application to strike off Ashtons HR Consulting Ltd was made before year-end and the company was dissolved 11 June 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
21 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRAPE, Michael David | Llp Designated Member | 2023-03-31 | Dec 1965 | — |
| HUMPHREY, Damian Paul | Llp Designated Member | 2023-03-31 | May 1975 | — |
| STROWGER, Ross Peter | Llp Designated Member | 2023-02-01 | Sep 1976 | — |
| TARLING, James Paul | Llp Designated Member | 2023-02-01 | Apr 1977 | — |
| WANGERMANN, Michael Alexander | Llp Designated Member | 2023-03-31 | Aug 1970 | — |
| WICKS, Lynn Josephine | Llp Designated Member | 2023-03-31 | Sep 1968 | — |
| ALLISON, Sharon Jane | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Jun 1974 | — |
| BAILEY, Thomas William | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Sep 1977 | — |
| BROWN, Alan Michael | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Aug 1963 | — |
| CAMERON, Matthew Robert Gregor | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Jan 1969 | — |
| CUNNINGHAM, Simon David | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Sep 1972 | — |
| DENNIS, Jeanette Alison | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Oct 1965 | — |
| FOYSTER, Richard Michael | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Feb 1971 | — |
| HAZLEWOOD, Geoffrey Alan | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Dec 1973 | — |
| MCMANUS, Magnus James | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Oct 1967 | — |
| MUNDELL, Adrian Stuart | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | May 1967 | — |
| PARKER, Simon John | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Nov 1972 | — |
| RICHARDSON, Fiona Jane | Llp Member | 2024-04-06 | Aug 1987 | — |
| SLEEP, Claire Lucy | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Feb 1978 | — |
| STEPHENSON, Polly Goulding | Llp Member | 2023-03-31 | Aug 1973 | — |
| WARD, Benjamin Frederick | Llp Member | 2023-04-04 | Apr 1982 | — |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr James Paul Tarling | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-limited-liability-partnership, right-to-share-surplus-assets-25-to-50-percent-limited-liability-partnership | 2023-02-01 | Ceased 2023-03-31 |
| Mr Ross Peter Strowger | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-limited-liability-partnership, right-to-share-surplus-assets-25-to-50-percent-limited-liability-partnership | 2023-02-01 | Ceased 2023-03-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 36 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-04 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-02 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2025-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-03 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-30 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2024-11-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-09 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2024-04-09 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2024-04-09 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date | |
| 2024-03-27 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2024-02-07 | LLCS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-07 | LLCH01 | officers | Change person member limited liability partnership with name change date | |
| 2023-11-28 | LLAA01 | accounts | Change account reference date limited liability partnership current extended | |
| 2023-04-12 | LLPSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement limited liability partnership | |
| 2023-04-06 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date | |
| 2023-04-03 | LLMR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date limited liability partnership | |
| 2023-03-31 | LLPSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control limited liability partnership | |
| 2023-03-31 | LLPSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control limited liability partnership | |
| 2023-03-31 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date | |
| 2023-03-31 | LLAP01 | officers | Appoint person member limited liability partnership with appointment date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+11.1%
£26,954,000 £29,954,000
-
Cash
+162.6%
£977,000 £2,566,000
-
Net assets
+27%
£10,436,000 £13,255,000
-
Employees
+0.8%
395 398
-
Operating profit
+42%
£4,336,000 £6,156,000
-
Profit before tax
+27.5%
£6,069,000 £7,738,000
-
Wages
+9.7%
£13,131,000 £14,399,000
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