WILLIAM GRACE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-23 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-09
Watchouts
Cash
£58K
-69% vs 2024
Net assets
£951K
+19.2% vs 2024
Employees
88
-15.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£490K
+1.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £16,444,081 | £16,795,816 | |
| Operating profit | £633,711 | £631,916 | |
| Profit before tax | £481,671 | £489,876 | |
| Net profit | £317,216 | £403,463 | |
| Cash | £186,556 | £57,885 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,733,888 | £2,330,286 | |
| Net assets | £797,799 | £951,262 | |
| Equity | £797,799 | £951,262 | |
| Average employees | 104 | 88 | |
| Wages | £3,218,329 | £3,153,707 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £22,416 | £22,416 |
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 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
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Turnover
+2.1%
£16,444,081 £16,795,816
-
Cash
-69%
£186,556 £57,885
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Net assets
+19.2%
£797,799 £951,262
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Employees
-15.4%
104 88
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Operating profit
-0.3%
£633,711 £631,916
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Profit before tax
+1.7%
£481,671 £489,876
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Wages
-2%
£3,218,329 £3,153,707
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.9% | 3.8% | |
| Net margin | 1.9% | 2.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 23.2% | 27.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 87.1% | 83.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.80x | 0.75x | |
| Interest cover | 3.66x | 4.29x |
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
- WILLIAM GRACE LIMITED 2025-04-08 → present
- MOBILE INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED 2016-08-10 → 2025-04-08
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Michael Dufty Partnership Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“These financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. Given the group's profitability, it has been able to further strengthen its position in the market place. The outlook for the group is strong with management remaining positive on the current profitability of the group post year end at the reporting date.”
Group structure
- WILLIAM GRACE LIMITED · parent
- Mobile People. Powered.Logistics Limited 100%
- Mobile People Powered Logistics (South) Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “The group passed a special resolution on 4 April 2025 changing its name from Mobile International Holdings Limited to William Grace Limited.”
- “On 4 April 2025 the group underwent a restructure in which the trading subsidiaries, Mobile People Powered Logistics Limited and Mobile People Powered Logistics (South) Limited, have been distributed out of the group.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
1 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOLLY, Ian Richard | Director | 2017-01-30 | Aug 1980 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOLLY, David Anthony | Director | 2016-08-10 | 2025-04-04 |
| MARRIOTT, Matthew Stephen Anthony | Director | 2017-01-30 | 2025-04-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Grace Holdco Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-04-04 | Active |
| Mr Matthew Stephen Anthony Marriott | Individual | Significant influence | 2021-05-10 | Ceased 2025-04-04 |
| Mr Ian Richard Jolly | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2021-05-10 | Ceased 2025-04-04 |
| Continental Clarity Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2021-05-10 | Ceased 2025-04-04 |
| Mr David Anthony Jolly | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-08-10 | Ceased 2021-05-10 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 63 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-04-10 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-04-08 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-12-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-12-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-12-15 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-09-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-04-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-10 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2025-04-10 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-04-10 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2025-04-08 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-04-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-04-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-04-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-04 | 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
- 9
- 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.