WARD GROUP HOLDINGS 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

  -2.2%

  £242,234,187 → £236,844,165

• Cash

  -73.2%

  £759,495 → £203,418

• Net assets

  -6.5%

  £51,465,332 → £48,115,501

• Employees

  -1.2%

  412 → 407

• Operating profit

  +197.1%

  £342,980 → £1,019,043

• Profit before tax

  +7.7%

  -£2,850,062 → -£2,630,801

• Wages

  -0.8%

  £17,472,260 → £17,340,012

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.

1. WARD GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED 2021-05-21 → present
2. STAPLEFORD 100 LIMITED 2019-11-27 → 2021-05-21

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Cooper Parry Group Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Based upon all of the above, the directors believe that it is appropriate that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. WARD GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
   1. Ward Real Estate Limited 100% · London, Greater London, England
   2. Donald Ward Limited 100% · Ilkeston, DE7 5JB · scrap metal processing and the provision of waste management services
   3. HB Insulations (Notts) Limited 90% · Ilkeston, DE7 5JB · management of hazardous and asbestos waste

Significant events

• “During the year the group operated from 9 main sites throughout the UK, although 2 of these have now been closed. The main closure related to the Immingham docks site which was previously used as the main port for bulk exports of recycled metal. The bulk export business is now operating on a smaller scale, following reductions in global demand, from the group's Cardiff docks site.”
• “In February 2025, the directors commissioned a valuation of all properties owned. The valuations indicated that the properties, with the associated planning permits for waste operations, have a market value substantially in excess of their book values. As it is the group's policy to carry its fixed assets at cost, or deemed cost, the valuation uplifts are not reflected within the financial statements.”
• “The waste division delivers more stable profitability, and the directors expect demand for waste services to remain resilient. This year represented the first full operating year of the Company's new waste processing plant, installed at a cost of over £10m. The facility increased throughput and expanded activity within the waste transfer station business.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

1

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

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