JAMES WALKER (LEITH) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-07 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
-87.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£158M
+6.8% vs 2024
Employees
427
-2.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£15M
+7.7% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £103,782,000 | £116,257,000 | |
| Operating profit | £10,283,000 | £11,612,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £13,545,000 | £14,587,000 | |
| Net profit | £10,412,000 | £11,707,000 | |
| Cash | £80,672,000 | £10,124,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £166,988,000 | £175,611,000 | |
| Net assets | £147,691,000 | £157,805,000 | |
| Equity | £147,691,000 | £157,805,000 | |
| Average employees | 436 | 427 | |
| Wages | £24,322,000 | £13,896,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £11,244,000 | £1,734,000 |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+12%
£103,782,000 £116,257,000
-
Cash
-87.5%
£80,672,000 £10,124,000
-
Net assets
+6.8%
£147,691,000 £157,805,000
-
Employees
-2.1%
436 427
-
Operating profit
+12.9%
£10,283,000 £11,612,000
-
Profit before tax
+7.7%
£13,545,000 £14,587,000
-
Wages
-42.9%
£24,322,000 £13,896,000
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.9% | 10.0% | |
| Net margin | 10.0% | 10.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 6.2% | 6.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 28.6% | 23.1% | |
| Current ratio | 3.85x | 5.33x | |
| Interest cover | 10.90x | 13.24x |
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
- Johnston Carmichael LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After reviewing the Group's forecasts and projections, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months from the signing of these financial statements. The Group therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its consolidated financial statements.”
Group structure
- JAMES WALKER (LEITH) LIMITED · parent
- Guildway Limited 100%
- Walker Timber Engineering Limited 100%
- WTG Treatment Limited 100%
- Woodbridge Timber Limited 100%
- Dundas Building Company Ltd. 100%
- Dundas Estates & Development Co. Ltd 100%
- Ferryfield House Limited 100%
- Ellen's Glen House Limited 100%
- The Meadows Stockport Limited 100%
- Highbury Healthcare (Holdings) Limited 100%
- Highbury Healthcare Limited 100%
- Walker Facilities Management Limited 100%
- Walker Commercial Properties Limited 100%
- Walker Residential Properties Limited 100%
- Walker Timber Group Limited 100%
- Walker Healthcare Limited 100%
- Cramond Residence Limited 100%
- Walker Healthcare (Cramond) Limited 100%
- Evergreen Timber Limited 100%
- Sundial Dundas (Corstorphine) Limited 100%
- Cox Long Limited 100%
- Dundas Estates (Bishopton) Limited 100%
- Dundas Estates (Haddington) Limited 100%
- Dundas Estates (Shawfair) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The process of de-risking the Group through buy-out of the defined benefit pension scheme has progressed in the period.”
- “During the period, The Meadows Stockport was one of the first expiring PFI projects successfully handed back to the public sector client.”
- “Six development sites were acquired in the period, underpinning future development delivery.”
- “Following the buy-in arrangement agreed with an insurer, it remains the objective to proceed to a buy-out of the defined benefit pension scheme.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAIRFOULL, David Andrew | Secretary | — | — | British |
| BROWN, Ewan | Director | — | Mar 1942 | British |
| CAMPBELL, John Charles | Director | — | May 1950 | British |
| FAIRFOULL, David Andrew | Director | 2013-07-16 | Jan 1959 | British |
| GODMAN, Susan Margaret | Director | 2025-08-14 | Apr 1982 | British |
| HENDERSON, Alexa Hamilton | Director | 2013-12-11 | Feb 1961 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALKER, Michael James | Director | — | 2012-11-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr John Charles Campbell | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 117 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-04-20 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-27 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2023-03-27 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2023-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-06-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-04 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-06-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-01-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2019-12-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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.