OPENFIELD AGRICULTURE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-27 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+108.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£21M
+0.2% vs 2024
Employees
211
-8.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£34K
-95.3% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £554,983,000 | £479,107,000 | |
| Operating profit | £2,937,000 | £2,201,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £722,000 | £34,000 | |
| Net profit | £514,000 | £40,000 | |
| Cash | £1,830,000 | £3,818,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £26,356,000 | £25,154,000 | |
| Net assets | £21,336,000 | £21,376,000 | |
| Equity | £21,336,000 | £21,376,000 | |
| Average employees | 231 | 211 | |
| Wages | £9,919,000 | £10,179,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,491,000 | £1,027,000 |
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 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
-
Turnover
-13.7%
£554,983,000 £479,107,000
-
Cash
+108.6%
£1,830,000 £3,818,000
-
Net assets
+0.2%
£21,336,000 £21,376,000
-
Employees
-8.7%
231 211
-
Operating profit
-25.1%
£2,937,000 £2,201,000
-
Profit before tax
-95.3%
£722,000 £34,000
-
Wages
+2.6%
£9,919,000 £10,179,000
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.5% | 0.5% | |
| Net margin | 0.1% | 0.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.1% | 8.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 81.1% | 79.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.24x | 1.25x | |
| Interest cover | 1.20x | 0.94x |
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 4 times since incorporation
- OPENFIELD AGRICULTURE LIMITED 2008-11-14 → present
- OPENFIELD AGRICULTURE PLC 2008-11-14 → 2008-11-14
- GRAINFARMERS PLC 2001-10-01 → 2008-11-14
- SCATS GRAIN LIMITED 1998-08-27 → 2001-10-01
- LUDGATE 175 LIMITED 1998-04-17 → 1998-08-27
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors therefore have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 37 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HENSON, Mark Richard | Secretary | 2020-01-01 | — | — |
| ANDERSON, David Russell Hamilton | Director | 2017-05-24 | Mar 1969 | British |
| DALLAS, James Lamond | Director | 2013-04-03 | Nov 1965 | British |
| JENNER, Richard John | Director | 2013-02-01 | Jun 1968 | British |
| WORRELL, Mark John | Director | 2013-01-31 | Jan 1965 | British |
Show 37 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALL, Michael Anthony | Secretary | 2004-03-10 | 2005-05-31 |
| BRYANT, Cynthia Verena | Secretary | 1998-08-18 | 2003-01-29 |
| ELLISON, Robert Mark | Secretary | 2006-05-31 | 2010-12-31 |
| MITCHELL, Fiona Helen Louise | Secretary | 2005-06-01 | 2006-05-30 |
| MURRAY, Alan James | Secretary | 2010-12-31 | 2019-12-31 |
| ROWLANDS, John Lewis | Secretary | 2003-01-29 | 2004-03-10 |
| LUDGATE SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1998-04-17 | 1998-08-18 |
| BARNARD, Andrew Stewart | Director | 2003-05-28 | 2008-06-30 |
| BROWNE, Simon Meyrick | Director | 1999-05-27 | 2008-11-14 |
| BUCK, David | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2013-07-31 |
| CHRISTIE MILLER, Andrew William Michael | Director | 1998-08-18 | 2008-11-14 |
| COCKS, Andrew John | Director | 1999-11-19 | 2001-06-01 |
| CONWAY, Arthur Philip | Director | 2008-11-25 | 2013-02-01 |
| CONWAY, Arthur Philip | Director | 2004-10-27 | 2008-11-14 |
| DAVIES, Timothy John | Director | 2002-03-28 | 2013-01-31 |
| DOUBLEDAY, Oliver Peter, Dr | Director | 2001-09-26 | 2006-04-26 |
| DOWTY, David Arthur John | Director | 1999-07-22 | 2008-11-14 |
| ELLISON, Robert Mark | Director | 2007-11-02 | 2010-12-31 |
| FENTON, John Powell | Director | 2003-08-18 | 2006-04-26 |
| HAMBLY, Peter Reginald | Director | 2000-06-01 | 2000-06-05 |
| HOTCHIN, Jim | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2013-07-31 |
| JENKINS, John Robert | Director | 1998-08-18 | 1999-11-19 |
| KEITH, James Edward | Director | 2001-06-28 | 2006-04-26 |
| LACEY, Graham Richard | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| LAMBERT, Michael Uvedale | Director | 2001-09-26 | 2004-06-30 |
| MATTHEWS, Roderic John | Director | 2004-04-19 | 2007-11-02 |
| MAXWELL, Stephen Harry Perkin | Director | 1999-05-27 | 2001-01-31 |
| MILLER, Colin Norman | Director | 1998-08-18 | 1999-01-30 |
| PHILLIPS, Elved Cyril | Director | 2000-06-29 | 2013-02-01 |
| POLLOCK, Timothy Hugo | Director | 1998-08-18 | 2005-08-31 |
| ROWLANDS, John Lewis | Director | 2001-06-01 | 2004-03-10 |
| SHARKEY, Gary Ian | Director | 2001-03-01 | 2005-03-04 |
| STABLES, John | Director | 2008-11-14 | 2016-11-16 |
| STONE, Andrew Jonathan | Director | 2006-01-02 | 2008-11-14 |
| STRATTON, Barnaby Martin | Director | 1999-11-19 | 2006-04-26 |
| LUDGATE NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1998-04-17 | 1998-08-18 |
| LUDGATE SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1998-04-17 | 1998-08-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Openfield Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-10-13 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 253 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-02-27 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-02-27 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-02 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-11-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-11 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-03-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-01 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-03-01 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-03-01 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-03-01 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-03-01 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-03-01 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-02-27 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-02-27 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-02-24 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-02-22 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-11-02 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-11-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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.