SIMPSON (YORK) LIMITED
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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
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
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2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
4-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
4-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 160 | 156 | 154 | 143 | |
| 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
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Turnover
-4.1%
£67,716,640 £64,910,835
-
Cash
+39.9%
£3,775,897 £5,280,944
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Net assets
+7.7%
£8,260,997 £8,896,110
highest in 4 filed years
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Employees
-7.1%
154 143
lowest in 4 filed years
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Operating profit
-45.7%
£1,397,274 £758,608
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Profit before tax
-41.9%
£1,463,062 £850,237
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Wages
-0.8%
£8,363,909 £8,296,946
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | 2.1% | 1.2% | |
| Net margin | — | — | 1.6% | 1.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | 16.3% | 8.3% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | 1.42x | 1.53x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | 58.30x | 38.64x |
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
- SIMPSON (YORK) LIMITED 1987-04-03 → present
- ELVINGTON PLANT HIRE LIMITED 1981-12-31 → 1987-04-03
- 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
- “Solar PV on our joinery workshop was ordered in 2025, and installed in early 2026.”
- “On 28 October 2024, an individual working on behalf of a sub-contractor on our Kala Sangam project was unfortunately injured in an accident. This accident is currently the subject of a Health & Safety Executive investigation, and we await the outcome of their findings.”
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 | |
| 2025-09-03 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-03 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-03 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-01 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-01 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-12-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-11-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-11-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-11-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-11-30 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-11-30 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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.