REED BOARDALL TRANSPORT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£63K
+70% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
+2.8% vs 2024
Employees
442
-2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£127K
-37% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £59,859,519 | £56,250,402 | |
| Operating profit | £261,084 | £171,641 | |
| Profit before tax | £201,268 | £126,747 | |
| Net profit | £138,354 | £227,838 | |
| Cash | £37,232 | £63,310 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,284,385 | £8,487,102 | |
| Net assets | £8,131,355 | £8,359,193 | |
| Equity | £8,131,355 | £8,359,193 | |
| Average employees | 451 | 442 | |
| Wages | £18,572,330 | £18,382,062 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £89,189 | £87,836 |
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-6%
£59,859,519 £56,250,402
-
Cash
+70%
£37,232 £63,310
-
Net assets
+2.8%
£8,131,355 £8,359,193
-
Employees
-2%
451 442
-
Operating profit
-34.3%
£261,084 £171,641
-
Profit before tax
-37%
£201,268 £126,747
-
Wages
-1%
£18,572,330 £18,382,062
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.4% | 0.3% | |
| Net margin | 0.2% | 0.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.2% | 2.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.83x | 2.13x | |
| Interest cover | 4.36x | 3.82x |
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
- REED BOARDALL TRANSPORT LIMITED 1992-08-24 → present
- WILSONS TRANSPORT LIMITED 1985-06-11 → 1992-08-24
- SECUSIN LIMITED 1985-03-20 → 1985-06-11
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have adopted the going concern basis in preparing these financial statements after assessing the principal risks to the Company over the financial year under review and for the foreseeable future. The directors have concluded that the level of uncertainty over the Going Concern Forecast Period to December 2026 (the forecast period) due to the impact of interest rates and inflation, compared to recent years, has reduced, as inflation has remained reasonably static, and interest rates have been reduced slightly. The directors have considered the impact of the economic environment on the business for the forecast period and the longer term. They have considered the potential impact on sales, profits, and cash flows and they believe that the business will continue to prove resilient. The Company, continues to have liquidity headroom on existing facilities and fully expects to continue to comfortably meet its obligations over the forecast period.”
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, Sarah Karen | Secretary | 2023-10-06 | — | — |
| BALDWIN, Andrew Lyndon | Director | 2014-07-01 | May 1970 | British |
| BOARDALL, Marcus Keith | Director | 2004-03-31 | Jan 1962 | British |
| HARTLEY, Norman Alexander | Director | 2022-07-01 | Apr 1980 | British |
| ROBERTS, Sarah Karen | Director | 2015-04-14 | Dec 1982 | British |
| TOWN, Stevland Paul | Director | 2020-06-01 | Mar 1979 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOARDALL, Marcus Keith | Secretary | 2003-12-01 | 2023-10-06 |
| KIRBY, Leslie | Secretary | — | 2003-12-01 |
| BOARDALL, Keith | Director | — | 2021-01-05 |
| BROWN, Leslie | Director | 2018-02-01 | 2018-08-10 |
| CASSELLS, Thomas William | Director | — | 2015-03-18 |
| GILL, John Howard William | Director | 2007-10-04 | 2017-12-29 |
| KIRBY, Leslie | Director | — | 2014-10-31 |
| REED, Guy | Director | — | 2013-07-10 |
| RICHARDSON, Graeme Neil | Director | 2018-07-01 | 2021-09-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reed Boardall Transport Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 145 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-18 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-18 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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.