THORNER LANE LIMITED
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Cash
£4m
-21% vs 2024
Net assets
£6.7m
-70% vs 2024
Employees
31
+55% highest in 5 filed years
Profit before tax
£6.3m
-2.1% lowest in 3 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
5-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
5-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-08-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | £12,594,447 | £13,343,775 | £14,751,204 | +10.5% | |
| Operating profit | — | — | £7,118,985 | £5,634,625 | £6,105,820 | +8.4% | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £7,436,511 | £6,404,797 | £6,268,955 | -2.1% | |
| Net profit | — | — | £5,633,488 | £4,709,218 | £4,576,948 | -2.8% | |
| Cash | — | £0 | £2,336,879 | £5,067,317 | £4,002,717 | -21% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,220,215 | £7,939,681 | £17,712,778 | £22,707,766 | £7,349,714 | -67.6% | |
| Net assets | £5,656,902 | £7,939,681 | £17,687,778 | £22,399,466 | £6,719,458 | -70% | |
| Equity | £5,656,902 | £7,939,681 | £17,687,778 | £22,399,466 | £6,719,458 | -70% | |
| Average employees | 1 | 1 | 15 | 20 | 31 | +55% | |
| Wages | — | — | £3,068,204 | £4,977,426 | £6,707,799 | +34.8% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | £243,062 | £1,085,994 | £2,345,239 | +116% | |
| Highest paid director | — | — | £243,062 | £279,655 | £641,627 | +129.4% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2022-08-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | 56.5% | 42.2% | 41.4% | |
| Net margin | — | — | 44.7% | 35.3% | 31.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | 40.2% | 24.8% | 83.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | 10.7% | 10.7% | 28.2% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | 7.72x | 8.83x | 3.81x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- AAB Audit & Accountancy Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements are prepared on the basis that the group and company can continue to operate as a going concern.”
Group structure
- THORNER LANE LIMITED · parent
- Burnsall Associates Limited 100%
- Burnsall Associates US LLC 100%
Significant events
- “Ownership of Burnsall transferred to an Employee-Owned Trust (EOT) on 3rd April 2025, resulting in the creation of a new operating board and the appointment of three trustees to govern the EOT.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
1 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DENT, Richard Granger | Director | 2025-04-03 | Jun 1978 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCRASE, Nicholas John | Director | 2021-08-12 | 2025-04-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnsall Associates Trustees Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% (as trust), Voting 75–100% (as trust), Appoints directors (as trust) | 2025-04-03 | Active |
| Mr Nicholas John Scrase | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-08-12 | Ceased 2025-04-03 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 24 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-08 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-08 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-10-02 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2024-04-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2024-02-14 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2023-11-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-22 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-11-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-08-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2022-08-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
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.