BRISTOL WATER PLC

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

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  -57.1%

  £700,000 → £300,000

• Net assets

  -0.9%

  £23,200,000 → £23,000,000

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

• Operating profit

  -140%

  -£500,000 → -£1,200,000

• Profit before tax

  -200%

  £200,000 → -£200,000

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

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.

1. BRISTOL WATER PLC 1991-12-19 → present
2. THE BRISTOL WATERWORKS PLC 1991-11-12 → 1991-12-19

Accounting basis

FRS 101

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Gravita Audit II Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Company has received confirmation from Pennon Group plc that it will provide support to the Company, should it be required, to meet its liabilities as they fall due for the period from approval of the 2025 financial statements through to 22 August 2026.”

Significant events

• “In 2018/19, a buy-in of the scheme was undertaken, and as a result the scheme assets were replaced with an insurance policy which matches the pension scheme's liabilities.”
• “In 2023/24 the Company paid dividends of £143.0m to its parent company, SWW as part of the planned group restructuring steps post statutory transfer.”
• “The 2024/25 year end audit has been Gravita Audit II Limited's first year in office as auditor, they were appointed after the Company conducted a formal tender process in February 2025.”
• “In June 2023, the High Court handed down a decision (Virgin Media Limited v NTL Pension Trustees II Limited and others) which potentially has implications for the validity of amendments made by schemes, including the Company defined benefit schemes, which were contracted-out on a salary-related basis between 6 April 1997 and the abolition of contracting-out in 2016.”
• “OECD Pillar 2 On 20 June 2023, Finance (No.2) Act 2023 was substantively enacted in the UK, introducing the Pillar Two global minimum effective tax rate of 15%.”

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

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

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