ASTA UNDERWRITING MANAGEMENT LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-21 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-07
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+27.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£2M
+129.7% vs 2023
Employees
12
-7.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
+61.9% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,672,000 | £4,117,000 | |
| Operating profit | £842,000 | £1,071,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £787,000 | £1,274,000 | |
| Net profit | £602,000 | £943,000 | |
| Cash | £1,248,000 | £1,587,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,244,000 | £3,658,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,070,000 | £2,458,000 | |
| Equity | £1,070,000 | £2,458,000 | |
| Average employees | 13 | 12 | |
| Wages | £1,305,000 | £1,290,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £54,000 | £56,000 |
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
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Turnover
+12.1%
£3,672,000 £4,117,000
-
Cash
+27.2%
£1,248,000 £1,587,000
-
Net assets
+129.7%
£1,070,000 £2,458,000
-
Employees
-7.7%
13 12
-
Operating profit
+27.2%
£842,000 £1,071,000
-
Profit before tax
+61.9%
£787,000 £1,274,000
-
Wages
-1.1%
£1,305,000 £1,290,000
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 | 22.9% | 26.0% | |
| Net margin | 16.4% | 22.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 37.5% | 29.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 70.4% | 49.7% | |
| Current ratio | 2.63x | 3.99x | |
| Interest cover | 12.03x | — |
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 1 time since incorporation
- ASTA UNDERWRITING MANAGEMENT LTD 2015-06-25 → present
- NOVA CHESHIRE LIMITED 2014-08-29 → 2015-06-25
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Overall, this demonstrates the resilience of AUML's business model and confirms the directors' opinion that AUML remains a going concern with a strong future.”
Group structure
- ASTA UNDERWRITING MANAGEMENT LTD · parent
- Asta Blue Line Services Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “During the year the company did not make any charitable donations (2023: £Nil). Charitable donations are now made through the wider Davies Group. No political donations were made.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARLEY, Clare Victoria | Director | 2025-08-27 | Oct 1982 | British |
| FISHER, Sian | Director | 2015-11-17 | Apr 1963 | British |
| HARFITT, Lorraine | Director | 2025-09-02 | May 1966 | British |
| PLUSH, Emma Louise | Director | 2023-07-18 | Dec 1989 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURDETT, Nicola Jane | Secretary | 2019-03-01 | 2022-07-13 |
| CHOW, Charmaine | Secretary | 2014-08-29 | 2019-02-28 |
| BARLEY, Clare Victoria | Director | 2025-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
| HARFITT, Lorraine | Director | 2025-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
| NORTON, Simon Peter Andrew | Director | 2014-08-29 | 2025-06-30 |
| STRUCK, John Seward | Director | 2016-02-22 | 2022-07-13 |
| TIGHE, Julian Michael | Director | 2014-08-29 | 2025-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Paul Elliott Singer | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-07-13 |
| Asta Insurance Markets Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 53 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-27 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-06-26 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-26 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-07-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
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.