HASTINGS FREIGHT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-10 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£391K
-1.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£3M
+6.4% vs 2024
Employees
75
+5.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£216K
-22.8% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £12,725,216 | £13,125,703 | |
| Operating profit | £345,869 | £301,738 | |
| Profit before tax | £280,548 | £216,454 | |
| Net profit | £209,297 | £163,606 | |
| Cash | £395,391 | £390,912 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,297,613 | £3,644,223 | |
| Net assets | £2,569,386 | £2,732,992 | |
| Equity | £2,569,386 | £2,732,992 | |
| Average employees | 71 | 75 | |
| Wages | £2,442,472 | £2,624,272 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+3.1%
£12,725,216 £13,125,703
-
Cash
-1.1%
£395,391 £390,912
-
Net assets
+6.4%
£2,569,386 £2,732,992
-
Employees
+5.6%
71 75
-
Operating profit
-12.8%
£345,869 £301,738
-
Profit before tax
-22.8%
£280,548 £216,454
-
Wages
+7.4%
£2,442,472 £2,624,272
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.7% | 2.3% | |
| Net margin | 1.6% | 1.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.5% | 8.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.86x | 1.83x | |
| Interest cover | 4.91x | 3.41x |
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
- Hawsons Chartered Accountants
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After due consideration of all relevant factors, including confirmation from the ultimate parent company's lender of their ongoing support, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEWITT, Claire | Director | 2021-03-01 | Jan 1981 | British |
| HEWITT, George William | Director | 2021-03-01 | Oct 1975 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASTINGS, Alan | Secretary | 2002-11-11 | 2003-04-02 |
| HASTINGS, Susan | Secretary | 2003-04-02 | 2015-11-12 |
| WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2002-11-11 | 2002-11-11 |
| ASKWITH, Gary Anthony | Director | 2002-11-11 | 2021-03-01 |
| BATEMAN, Patricia | Director | 2004-04-15 | 2018-12-18 |
| HASTINGS, Alan | Director | 2002-11-11 | 2021-03-01 |
| LOMAS, Barbara Jane | Director | 2021-03-01 | 2023-05-31 |
| REED, Steven Kenneth | Director | 2017-01-25 | 2019-12-13 |
| WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2002-11-11 | 2002-11-11 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings Freight Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-10-16 | Active |
| Mr Alan Hastings | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-10-16 |
| Mr Gary Anthony Askwith | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-10-16 |
| Mrs Patricia Bateman | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-10-16 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 103 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-03-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-03-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-03-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-03-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-03-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-12-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-11-17 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2020-11-17 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
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.