AFENTRA (UK) LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-22 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3K
0% vs 2023
Net assets
-£16M
-52.3% vs 2023
Employees
15
+15.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£4M
-70.1% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Energy median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,272,000 | £3,108,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£2,910,000 | -£4,111,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£2,428,000 | -£4,129,000 | |
| Net profit | -£2,428,000 | -£4,129,000 | |
| Cash | £3,000 | £3,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£10,474,000 | -£15,449,000 | |
| Net assets | -£10,503,000 | -£15,996,000 | |
| Equity | -£10,503,000 | -£15,996,000 | |
| Average employees | 13 | 15 | |
| Wages | £3,584,000 | £3,485,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £782,000 | £905,000 |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-5%
£3,272,000 £3,108,000
-
Cash
0%
£3,000 £3,000
-
Net assets
-52.3%
-£10,503,000 -£15,996,000
-
Employees
+15.4%
13 15
-
Operating profit
-41.3%
-£2,910,000 -£4,111,000
-
Profit before tax
-70.1%
-£2,428,000 -£4,129,000
-
Wages
-2.8%
£3,584,000 £3,485,000
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -88.9% | -132.3% | |
| Net margin | -74.2% | -132.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 27.8% | 26.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 1164.1% | 530.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.07x | 0.16x | |
| Interest cover | -194.00x | -228.39x |
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
- AFENTRA (UK) LTD 2021-07-21 → present
- STERLING ENERGY (UK) LIMITED 2002-10-22 → 2021-07-21
- STERLING ENERGY LIMITED 2002-10-21 → 2002-10-22
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP UK
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Director has conducted a review of the going concern assumption, considering all available information available up to the date the accounts are issued and taking into account all available information about the future. Afentra plc, has agreed to provide necessary financial support if required to enable the Company to meet its liabilities as they fall due, and has confirmed its ability to do so with reference to its own financial position and cash forecasts. The Company's net liability position is mainly due to amounts payable to other group companies (note 12). These liabilities are internal to the Afentra plc group, and taking into account the Company's present position, its principal risks and uncertainties and availability of support from Afentra plc, the Director has a reasonable expectation that the Company will be able to continue its operations and meet its liabilities as they fall due for the going concern period. Based on the above, together with the director's knowledge and experience of the market, the director continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.”
Significant events
- “No significant subsequent events to the Balance Sheet date of 31 December 2024 have occurred.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 26 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCARDLE, Hamish William | Secretary | 2024-09-30 | — | — |
| MCDADE, Paul | Director | 2021-03-15 | Oct 1963 | British |
Show 26 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHURCHWARD, Michelle | Secretary | 2011-10-18 | 2012-09-13 |
| CLIFF, Richard Andrew | Secretary | 2021-07-08 | 2024-03-31 |
| COOPER, Jonathan Robert | Secretary | 2008-02-04 | 2011-10-18 |
| CUNNINGHAM, Nicholas John | Secretary | 2024-03-31 | 2024-09-30 |
| DANGERFIELD, Carol Jessie | Secretary | 2000-10-10 | 2001-05-21 |
| HAWKINS, Anthony James | Secretary | 2016-01-22 | 2017-07-10 |
| MILNE, Gavin Johnston | Secretary | 2014-11-10 | 2016-01-22 |
| SMITH, Andrew John | Secretary | 2012-09-13 | 2014-11-10 |
| SPURRIER, Barbara | Secretary | 2017-06-27 | 2018-12-13 |
| THOMSON, Graeme Paul | Secretary | 2001-05-21 | 2008-02-04 |
| CFPRO COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2018-12-13 | 2021-07-08 |
| BEARDSALL, Alastair John | Director | 2009-09-15 | 2016-05-10 |
| BROWN, Ralph Lyman | Director | 2002-05-31 | 2005-09-30 |
| CLAYTON, Nicholas John | Director | 2016-05-10 | 2016-10-13 |
| COOPER, Jonathan Robert | Director | 2008-02-04 | 2011-10-18 |
| FRANK, Philip Leighton, Dr | Director | 2012-06-14 | 2015-03-13 |
| GRIGGS, Paul Michael | Director | 2005-07-14 | 2008-04-23 |
| GROSSE, Andrew Joseph | Director | 2005-07-14 | 2011-10-03 |
| HAWKINS, Anthony James | Director | 2020-12-04 | 2021-03-15 |
| JERSING, Ib Eskil | Director | 2015-03-23 | 2018-06-08 |
| MACASKILL, Angus | Director | 2010-11-09 | 2013-08-16 |
| MARSHALL, David Lee | Director | 2018-06-08 | 2020-12-04 |
| OTOOLE, Richard Anthony | Director | 2000-10-10 | 2006-12-31 |
| QUINTON, Nigel Alan | Director | 2001-01-09 | 2004-10-15 |
| THOMSON, Graeme Paul | Director | 2001-05-21 | 2009-12-03 |
| WILSON, Henry George | Director | 2001-01-09 | 2009-08-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afentra Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 142 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-07-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-07-21 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-30 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-08 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-08 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2024-04-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-04-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-10-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-07-21 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2021-07-20 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary 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.