DARENTH UNDERWRITING LIMITED
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Cash
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Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£321K
-56.3% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£43K
-80.9% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-06-07.
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Accounts not prepared on a going-concern basis
The Directors do not consider the Company to be a going concern and the financial statements have been prepared on a break up basis.
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Going-concern uncertainty disclosed
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross written premiums | £240,203 | £18,078 | -92.5% | |
| Net earned premiums | £728,212 | £49,670 | -93.2% | |
| Claims incurred | £294,747 | £24,205 | -91.8% | |
| Investment return | £119,967 | £90,083 | -24.9% | |
| Profit before tax | £225,267 | £43,124 | -80.9% | |
| Net profit | £172,339 | £36,188 | -79% | |
| Insurance contract liabilities | £2,284,716 | £1,789,130 | -21.7% | |
| Total assets | £3,389,977 | £2,398,429 | -29.2% | |
| Total liabilities | £2,655,240 | £2,077,571 | -21.8% | |
| Equity | £734,737 | £320,858 | -56.3% | |
| Average employees | — | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 78.3% | 86.6% |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PKF Littlejohn LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Not a going concern (break-up basis)
“The Directors do not consider the Company to be a going concern and the financial statements have been prepared on a break up basis.”
Significant events
- “The Company has ceased to write insurance business in the Lloyd's insurance market as a Lloyd's Corporate Capital Member.”
- “The Company ceased underwriting at 31 December 2022.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARGENTA SECRETARIAT LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2002-10-29 | — | — |
| HUNTER, Jane Clare Marianne | Director | 2012-07-05 | Apr 1947 | British |
| HUNTER, Quentin Stuart | Director | 2014-09-11 | Apr 1972 | British |
| HUNTER, Roland Stuart | Director | 2014-09-11 | Mar 1974 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, Jane Clare Marianne | Secretary | 1999-05-27 | 2002-10-29 |
| HUNTER, Neville Stuart, Colonel | Director | 1999-05-27 | 2013-12-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watling Street Estates Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 239 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-02 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-06-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2018-10-24 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2018-10-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2018-10-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2018-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-06-05 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 1
- 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.