GRESHAM INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-09-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-15
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
—
Equity attributable
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£8M
-18.8% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-05-15.
Profit before tax
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross written premiums | — | — | |
| Net earned premiums | — | — | |
| Claims incurred | — | — | |
| Investment return | £6,109,000 | £4,673,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £10,375,000 | £8,428,000 | |
| Net profit | £7,781,000 | £6,321,000 | |
| Insurance contract liabilities | £5,997,000 | £6,719,000 | |
| Total assets | — | — | |
| Total liabilities | — | — | |
| Equity | — | — | |
| Average employees | — | — |
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
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31
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Gross written premiums
—
Not reported
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Net earned premiums
—
Not reported
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Profit before tax
-18.8%
£10,375,000 £8,428,000
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Equity
—
Not reported
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Insurance contract liabilities
+12%
£5,997,000 £6,719,000
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Investment return
-23.5%
£6,109,000 £4,673,000
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
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- GRESHAM INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED 1995-07-20 → present
- GRESHAM FIRE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED(THE) 1910-06-27 → 1995-07-20
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for a period of at least twelve months (to 27 March 2027) from the date of approval of the financial statements. For this reason, they continue to adopt, and to consider appropriate, the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The Company undertook an ordinary share capital reduction, reducing the number of ordinary £1 shares in issue from 76.5 million to 1.”
- “The Company settled its contingent consideration regarding the acquisition of the Barclays home insurance portfolio.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 66 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVIVA COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2016-12-09 | — | — |
| GRADY, Neil | Director | 2025-10-22 | Aug 1978 | British |
| HOLLIDAY, Jane Christine | Director | 2023-03-27 | Oct 1976 | British |
| LATTER, Thomas James | Director | 2018-07-18 | Dec 1977 | British |
| SHAW, Stephen David | Director | 2025-11-13 | Apr 1980 | British |
| WELLS, Kate Victoria | Director | 2025-10-13 | Mar 1971 | British |
Show 66 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYER, Vijay Subramanyam | Secretary | — | 1993-08-23 |
| CARSON, Clare Frances | Secretary | 2001-01-01 | 2002-10-01 |
| DOCKRELL, Carol Ann | Secretary | 1996-05-03 | 2000-12-31 |
| SHAH, Meera | Secretary | 2002-10-01 | 2005-03-31 |
| SMITH, Thomas Andrew Forwood | Secretary | 1993-08-23 | 1996-05-03 |
| SPICKER, Richard Harold | Secretary | 2007-07-12 | 2013-08-12 |
| VALENTINE, Claire Margaret | Secretary | 2013-11-29 | 2016-12-09 |
| WILMAN, Jennifer Jane | Secretary | 2013-08-12 | 2013-11-29 |
| AVIVA COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2005-03-31 | 2007-07-12 |
| ABRAHAMS, Clifford James | Director | 2010-07-26 | 2013-10-23 |
| BADDELEY, Julie Margaret | Director | 1998-09-10 | 2000-10-25 |
| BARKER, Robin | Director | 2014-07-29 | 2019-10-31 |
| CARTER, Matthew Christian Alan | Director | 2013-10-23 | 2014-12-05 |
| CASTAGNO, John | Director | 2000-05-16 | 2003-02-18 |
| CHRISTIE, Edward | Director | — | 1998-08-15 |
| CLARKSON, Robert James | Director | 2008-02-22 | 2011-03-10 |
| COLES, Derek John | Director | 2002-07-16 | 2003-08-13 |
| CURSON, Stuart Charles | Director | 2024-02-26 | 2025-11-12 |
| DEAKIN, Janice | Director | 2010-04-06 | 2011-06-02 |
| DIMBLEBY, Andrew Richard | Director | 2001-12-05 | 2003-08-13 |
| DOONEY, Gillean Rachel | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2018-10-25 |
| DUGGAN, Gary John | Director | 2007-12-18 | 2011-03-10 |
| EASTER, Philip Charles | Director | 2005-06-09 | 2007-01-01 |
| FIELD, Matthew Anthony | Director | 2019-10-31 | 2021-05-28 |
| GLEN, Paul Edward | Director | 1997-08-31 | 2000-02-18 |
| GRACE, Adrian | Director | 2005-03-31 | 2007-01-23 |
| HEMMING, Gareth John | Director | 2019-12-23 | 2022-11-25 |
| HODGES, Mark Steven | Director | 2005-03-31 | 2006-05-09 |
| HOLMES, Colm Joseph | Director | 2014-06-20 | 2018-03-23 |
| HUGHES, James Martin Anthony | Director | 2003-10-08 | 2005-03-31 |
| HUNT, Jacqueline | Director | 2007-01-01 | 2008-09-04 |
| JACKSON, Peter | Director | 1998-09-10 | 2005-03-31 |
| JEENS, Robert Charles Hubert | Director | 1997-02-13 | 1998-09-10 |
| KELLY, David William | Director | 2019-07-09 | 2023-01-10 |
| KELLY, David William | Director | 2015-11-05 | 2017-03-20 |
| KIRKHAM, Donald Herbert | Director | 1995-07-14 | 1997-02-13 |
| KITSON, John Robert | Director | 2007-12-18 | 2010-03-31 |
| MACHELL, Simon Christopher | Director | 2006-05-09 | 2007-07-12 |
| MARSH, Jonathan Lee | Director | 2022-11-10 | 2024-02-25 |
| MAYER, Igal Mordeciah | Director | 2007-07-13 | 2009-12-31 |
| MCINTYRE, Bridget Fiona | Director | 2005-03-31 | 2005-06-09 |
| MCMILLAN, David John Ramsay | Director | 2010-02-23 | 2011-06-02 |
| MCNAMARA, Paul Gerard | Director | 2011-03-10 | 2013-10-23 |
| MIDDLE, Anthony Edward | Director | 2011-06-02 | 2013-11-29 |
| MORAN, Charlotte | Director | 2023-03-16 | 2025-10-14 |
| PARR, Simon John | Director | 2006-12-13 | 2007-12-18 |
| PENNEY, Lawrence Kevin | Director | 2002-02-13 | 2005-03-31 |
| PHIPPS, Robin Ashley | Director | 2001-02-13 | 2005-03-31 |
| POSTON, Ian William | Director | 1995-07-14 | 2002-03-11 |
| PROSSER, David John | Director | 1998-09-10 | 2000-12-31 |
| RAYNOR, Pamela Rose | Director | — | 1996-11-29 |
| RIX, Lindsey Claire | Director | 2016-10-17 | 2017-07-12 |
| SEYMOUR-JACKSON, Angela Charlotte | Director | 2006-03-16 | 2007-12-18 |
| SILK, Ronald Henry | Director | — | 1995-06-27 |
| SLEVIN, Eamon | Director | 2003-08-13 | 2004-10-08 |
| SNOWBALL, Patrick Joseph Robert | Director | 2005-03-31 | 2006-03-13 |
| SOWTER, Philip John | Director | 2018-10-25 | 2019-07-09 |
| TOWNEND, Robert Ian Leyman | Director | 2018-03-23 | 2019-12-23 |
| TRELOAR, Stephen | Director | 2015-05-19 | 2015-11-04 |
| VINEY, Ian Douglass | Director | 2003-02-18 | 2005-03-31 |
| WALTON, Neville Russell | Director | 1997-05-15 | 2002-02-13 |
| WATSON, David Kenneth | Director | 2008-12-22 | 2010-03-31 |
| WINSLOW, Adam Charles | Director | 2022-12-01 | 2023-04-12 |
| WINSLOW, Adam Charles | Director | 2011-06-02 | 2012-11-26 |
| WOODFORD, Julian Ray | Director | 2013-10-23 | 2014-06-20 |
| YOUNG, Rodney James | Director | — | 1997-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aviva Insurance Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 322 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-16 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-12-16 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-16 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-16 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-05 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-11-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-16 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-06-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-23 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2025-05-19 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2025-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement | |
| 2024-07-05 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2024-05-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 17
- Capital events
- 4
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 2
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.