CAFFYNS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
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Cash
£4.6m
+22.4% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£30m
-0.2% vs 2025
Employees
414
-0.2% vs 2025
Profit before tax
-£1.7m
-799.6% lowest in 3 filed years
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2026-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £262,084,000 | £275,464,000 | £270,661,000 | -1.7% | |
| Operating profit | £1,533,000 | £3,547,000 | £1,463,000 | -58.8% | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,545,000 | £246,000 | -£1,721,000 | -799.6% | |
| Net profit | -£1,204,000 | £176,000 | -£1,286,000 | -830.7% | |
| Cash | £438,000 | £3,762,000 | £4,605,000 | +22.4% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £51,998,000 | £47,839,000 | £44,155,000 | -7.7% | |
| Net assets | £28,736,000 | £29,921,000 | £29,873,000 | -0.2% | |
| Equity | £28,736,000 | £29,921,000 | £29,873,000 | -0.2% | |
| Average employees | 414 | 415 | 414 | -0.2% | |
| Wages | £15,830,000 | £16,892,000 | £17,484,000 | +3.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £720,000 | £708,000 | £732,000 | +3.4% | |
| Highest paid director | — | £337,000 | £344,000 | +2.1% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.6% | 1.3% | 0.5% | |
| Net margin | -0.5% | 0.1% | -0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 2.9% | 7.4% | 3.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 71.1% | 70.6% | 72.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.06x | 1.08x | 1.03x | |
| Interest cover | 0.57x | 1.07x | 0.46x |
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
- UK-adopted International Accounting Standards
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Kreston Reeves Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources and headroom against the covenant tests to be able to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and for a period of at least one year from the date of approval of the Annual Report. For those reasons, they have concluded that there is no material uncertainty and they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing this Annual Report.”
Group structure
- CAFFYNS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY · parent
- Caffyns Wessex Limited 100%
- Caffyns Properties Limited 100%
- Fasthaven Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In June 2025, we closed our Caffyns Motorstore used car business in Lewes.”
- “On 5 January 2026 Mike Warren, our Finance Director since May 2016, stood down from the board.”
- “Joelle Timperley was appointed as the Company's new Chief Financial Officer on 5 January 2026.”
- “HSBC agreed to waive the covenant tests covering interest and borrowing levels at 30 September and 31 December 2025 and replaced them with a new covenant test, solely for the year under review.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAFFYN, Sarah Jane | Secretary | 1999-07-20 | — | British |
| BELLAMY, Stephen Gerard | Director | 2019-06-18 | Jan 1960 | New Zealander |
| CAFFYN, Sarah Jane | Director | 2003-04-28 | Dec 1968 | British |
| CAFFYN, Simon Graham Morris | Director | 1992-07-16 | Dec 1960 | British |
| GOURLAY, Nigel Timothy | Director | 2013-09-26 | Feb 1955 | British |
| TIMPERLEY, Joelle Natalia | Director | 2026-01-05 | Mar 1976 | British |
| WRIGHT, Richard Crossley | Director | 2011-11-01 | Aug 1945 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAFFYN, Robert James Morris | Secretary | — | 1999-07-20 |
| AINSLEY, Guy James | Director | 2009-11-25 | 2012-10-24 |
| BIRKENHEAD, Brian | Director | 2004-01-01 | 2012-07-27 |
| CAFFYN, Alan Morris, Dl Mi Mech.E. Fimi | Director | — | 2003-05-01 |
| CAFFYN, Anthony Edward Ferris | Director | — | 2001-02-28 |
| CAFFYN, Douglas John Morris, Reverend | Director | — | 1995-03-31 |
| CAFFYN, Robert James Morris | Director | — | 2005-05-31 |
| CARTE, Brian Addison | Director | 1996-06-03 | 2008-08-08 |
| COTTRELL, Henry Claude | Director | — | 1996-07-19 |
| GOODBURN, Andrew Robert | Director | 2004-02-02 | 2013-10-25 |
| HARRISON, Mark Seymour | Director | 2000-04-17 | 2016-07-31 |
| HOLLINGWORTH, Nicholas William | Director | 2008-03-01 | 2019-07-31 |
| SHAWCROSS, Hartley William, Lord | Director | — | 1994-07-19 |
| WARREN, Michael | Director | 2016-05-31 | 2026-01-05 |
| WATT, Ian Glendinning | Director | 1993-01-04 | 2004-11-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 265 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-08-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-04 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2025-08-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-08-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-08-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-08-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-16 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part release with charge number | |
| 2021-09-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-08-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-08-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-08-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-08-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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.