PARSONS BAKERY LIMITED
Get an alert when PARSONS BAKERY LIMITED files next
Leroy will email you the moment a new filing lands at Companies House — one short note per filing, nothing else.
Next accounts due
2027-09-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-11 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-28
Watchouts
Cash
£587K
-80.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£1M
-66.9% vs 2024
Employees
420
-10.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£704K
+158.4% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
-
2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £14,681,435 | £14,296,481 | |
| Operating profit | — | £194,492 | £766,258 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £272,664 | £704,456 | |
| Net profit | — | £197,745 | £525,404 | |
| Cash | — | £3,017,560 | £587,411 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £4,320,892 | £1,567,878 | |
| Net assets | — | £4,044,367 | £1,336,949 | |
| Equity | £3,846,622 | £4,044,367 | £1,336,949 | |
| Average employees | — | 470 | 420 | |
| Wages | — | £895,500 | £733,023 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £682,362 | £460,678 |
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 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31
-
Turnover
-2.6%
£14,681,435 £14,296,481
-
Cash
-80.5%
£3,017,560 £587,411
-
Net assets
-66.9%
£4,044,367 £1,336,949
-
Employees
-10.6%
470 420
-
Operating profit
+294%
£194,492 £766,258
-
Profit before tax
+158.4%
£272,664 £704,456
-
Wages
-18.1%
£895,500 £733,023
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 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 1.3% | 5.4% | |
| Net margin | — | 1.3% | 3.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 4.5% | 48.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 27.7% | 51.9% | |
| Current ratio | — | 2.89x | 0.86x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Frost Wiltshire LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “April 2025 marked a pivotal moment in the Company's ownership structure, as Parsons Bakery transitioned to Employee Ownership under an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT).”
- “On 1st April 2025, the company entered into a debenture deed providing security to the exiting shareholders in relation to their shares being acquired by the Parsons Bakery Employee Ownership Trust. The security comprises a fixed and floating charge over all the land, assets, goodwill and undertakings of the company present or future.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIOTT, Nicola Jane | Director | 2020-09-04 | Jan 1968 | British |
| INSULL-GRIFFITHS, Lee William | Director | 2023-06-26 | Sep 1988 | British |
| PARSONS, Nicholas David | Director | 2000-12-14 | Mar 1968 | British |
| PAXTON, Benjamin Alex | Director | 2020-03-04 | Jan 1982 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIOTT, Nicola Jane | Secretary | 2005-01-01 | 2025-04-01 |
| PARSONS, Nicholas David | Secretary | 2000-12-14 | 2005-01-01 |
| SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2000-12-14 | 2000-12-14 |
| CURLING, Tom Edward | Director | 2016-11-29 | 2020-01-29 |
| EAVES, Matthew | Director | 2013-03-08 | 2018-08-30 |
| ELLIOTT, Christopher John | Director | 2012-01-01 | 2015-03-18 |
| PARSONS, Jeremy John | Director | 2000-12-14 | 2025-04-01 |
| SHERGILL, Baljit Singh | Director | 2013-03-08 | 2017-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parsons Bakery Trustees Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-04-01 | Active |
| Ms Nicola Jane Elliott | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2018-02-22 | Ceased 2025-04-01 |
| Mr Nicholas David Parsons | Individual | Shares 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-04-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 142 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-04-17 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-04-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-17 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-04-17 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-04-17 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2025-04-17 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2025-04-10 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-10 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-10 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-04-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-01 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-02-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 2
- 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.