DARNLEY BIDCO LIMITED

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

• Turnover

  +4.3%

  £17,881,206 → £18,657,408

• Cash

  -2.9%

  £1,603,575 → £1,556,893

• Net assets

  +14.2%

  £2,491,520 → £2,844,241

• Employees

  -1%

  491 → 486

• Operating profit

  -37.7%

  £658,568 → £410,339

• Profit before tax

  -30.5%

  £676,848 → £470,412

• Wages

  +6.6%

  £9,406,945 → £10,023,232

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Mitchells Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”

Group structure

1. DARNLEY BIDCO LIMITED · parent
   1. St Martins Care Limited 100%

Significant events

• “The combined impact of the above is a profit before taxation of £470,412 in the year ended 31 March 2025.”
• “Changes to Employers National Insurance contributions announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn Statement. The Company has calculated that this will cost circa £400,000 in the 2025-26 financial year.”
• “Continued failure by Local Authorities to provide increases in fees that match cost increases due to their own financial challenges. Average Local Authority fee increases for 2025-26 are in the range of 4% to 6% whilst National Minimum Wage has increased by 6.7% plus the above-mentioned impact of changes in Employers National Insurance.”
• “An increasingly difficult market in which to attract admissions, especially due to the Government and Local Authority "Home First" policy which prioritises care at home over residential care.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.