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Next accounts due

2027-09-30 (in 1y)

Last filed for 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-06-10 (in 1mo)

Last made up 2025-05-27

Watchouts

1 item

Cash

£5M

+39.9% vs 2024

Net assets

£9M

+7.7% highest in 4 filed years

Employees

143

-7.1% lowest in 4 filed years

Profit before tax

£850K

-41.9% vs 2024

Watchouts

Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating

Accounts

4-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31

Metric Trend 2022-12-312023-12-312024-12-312025-12-31
Turnover £67,716,640£64,910,835
Operating profit £1,397,274£758,608
Profit before tax £645,902£2,072,559£1,463,062£850,237
Net profit £532,983£1,577,170£1,093,205£635,113
Cash £1,562,697£7,098,038£3,775,897£5,280,944
Total assets less current liabilities £5,703,428£7,499,752£8,589,970£9,144,394
Net assets £5,590,622£7,167,792£8,260,997£8,896,110
Equity £5,590,622£7,167,792£8,260,997£8,896,110
Average employees 160156154143
Wages £7,984,653£8,623,562£8,363,909£8,296,946
Directors' remuneration £358,138£344,500£290,890£306,411

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

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

Ratios

Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest

Ratio Trend 2022-12-312023-12-312024-12-312025-12-31
Operating margin 2.1%1.2%
Net margin 1.6%1.0%
Return on capital employed 16.3%8.3%
Current ratio 1.42x1.53x
Interest cover 58.30x38.64x

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.

Name history

Renamed 2 times since incorporation

  1. SIMPSON (YORK) LIMITED 1987-04-03 → present
  2. ELVINGTON PLANT HIRE LIMITED 1981-12-31 → 1987-04-03
  3. CLAXTON & GARLAND(SERVICES)LIMITED 1965-05-05 → 1981-12-31

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis
FRS 102
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
Azets Audit Services Limited
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The directors have considered all factors, including in the wider economy, as part of their assessment of going concern. Although the current economic and political climate creates both cashflow and profitability risks for the company, the company continues to trade profitably and is cash generative. Budgets and cashflows have been prepared using assumptions for capital expenditure, customer demand and supply chain costs. These budgets and cashflows indicate continuing profitability and cash generation, consequently the directors believe on balance that they have sufficient resources to enable trading to continue for a period of at least one year from the date of approval of the financial statements. Accordingly, these financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis.”

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

5 active · 15 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
GATENBY, Rebecca Kay Secretary 2022-11-29
ALLERTON, Russell Craig Director 2000-05-30 Feb 1967 British
GATENBY, Andrew Director 2012-08-14 Feb 1975 British
GATENBY, Beryl Director 1993-04-21 Jan 1949 British
GATENBY, Ronald Christopher Director 1993-04-21 Nov 1947 British
Show 15 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
CONNELL, Edward Weston Secretary 2019-12-19 2022-11-29
GARLAND, Susan Elizabeth Secretary 1994-07-23
PURSEHOUSE, John Secretary 1994-07-23 2019-12-19
BARRICK, Howard James Director 1994-07-23 2008-11-13
BROWN, Richard Jacques Director 1992-12-31
CONNELL, Edward Weston Director 2019-12-19 2022-11-30
GARLAND, Gerald Harry Director 1994-07-23
GARLAND, Kenneth Director 1994-07-23
GARLAND, Susan Elizabeth Director 1993-04-21 1994-07-23
GRAVES, David Eric Director 1998-12-16 2006-09-29
HILDRETH, Ian Richard Director 1994-07-23 2017-05-18
NEAL, Anthony John Director 1992-12-31
PURSEHOUSE, John Director 1996-10-24 2019-12-19
SILCOCK, Neil Philip Director 2009-09-04 2022-01-24
WILEMAN, Michael Roderick Director 2000-05-30 2008-07-24

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Simpson (York) Holdings Ltd Corporate entity Shares 75–100% 2025-09-03 Active
Mr Ron Christopher Gatenby Individual Shares 25–50% 2016-04-06 Ceased 2025-09-03
Mrs Beryl Gatenby Individual Shares 25–50% 2016-04-06 Ceased 2025-09-03

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 183 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2026-05-01 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2025-09-03 PSC02 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2025-09-03 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2025-09-03 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2025-05-28 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-04-25 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2024-05-28 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-05-07 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full PDF
2023-06-17 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-05-27 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-12-01 PSC04 persons-with-significant-control Change to a person with significant control PDF
2022-12-01 PSC04 persons-with-significant-control Change to a person with significant control PDF
2022-12-01 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2022-12-01 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2022-11-30 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-11-30 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2022-11-30 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2022-11-30 CH01 officers Change person director company with change date PDF
2022-11-30 AP03 officers Appoint person secretary company with name date PDF
2022-11-30 TM02 officers Termination secretary company with name termination date PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
5

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

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