NORTHWARDS LTD.
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-01 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£228K
-6.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
+1.8% vs 2023
Employees
153
+5.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£99K
+124.6% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £21,240,890 | £21,873,985 | |
| Operating profit | -£208,796 | £294,062 | |
| Profit before tax | -£400,767 | £98,580 | |
| Net profit | -£269,177 | £48,705 | |
| Cash | £244,751 | £227,969 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,446,142 | £4,022,400 | |
| Net assets | £2,743,362 | £2,792,067 | |
| Equity | £2,743,362 | £2,792,067 | |
| Average employees | 145 | 153 | |
| Wages | £4,283,386 | £4,446,136 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £99,727 | £104,742 |
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
-
Turnover
+3%
£21,240,890 £21,873,985
-
Cash
-6.9%
£244,751 £227,969
-
Net assets
+1.8%
£2,743,362 £2,792,067
-
Employees
+5.5%
145 153
-
Operating profit
+240.8%
-£208,796 £294,062
-
Profit before tax
+124.6%
-£400,767 £98,580
-
Wages
+3.8%
£4,283,386 £4,446,136
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 | -1.0% | 1.3% | |
| Net margin | -1.3% | 0.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.7% | 7.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.29x | 1.33x | |
| Interest cover | -1.05x | 1.44x |
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
- NORTHWARDS LTD. 2001-12-03 → present
- PORT SERVICES LIMITED 2001-11-16 → 2001-12-03
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forrester Boyd
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- NORTHWARDS LTD. · parent
- Sea-Cargo Aberdeen Limited
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LESLIE, Neil Henry | Secretary | 2003-03-06 | — | British |
| ANDERSON, Grant | Director | 2020-05-04 | Mar 1970 | British |
| GJOSTEIN, Tor | Director | 2011-01-06 | May 1963 | Norwegian |
| LESLIE, Neil Henry | Director | 2001-11-16 | Oct 1965 | British |
| SAEVILD, Ole | Director | 2011-01-06 | Sep 1966 | Norwegian |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LESLIE, Neil Henry | Secretary | 2001-11-16 | 2001-12-01 |
| WATSON, Angus Millar | Secretary | 2001-12-01 | 2003-03-06 |
| OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2001-11-16 | 2001-11-16 |
| ANDERSON, George Brian | Director | 2001-11-16 | 2020-05-04 |
| BLADES, Martin George | Director | 2008-05-14 | 2011-01-06 |
| CAIRNS, Terence Charles | Director | 2002-01-11 | 2002-09-30 |
| LESLIE, Laurence Robert William | Director | 2001-11-16 | 2011-09-27 |
| LESLIE, Robert Laurence | Director | 2001-11-16 | 2011-09-27 |
| PRENTICE, Murray | Director | 2011-01-06 | 2019-07-16 |
| SHEWAN, Ian George | Director | 2004-12-23 | 2008-01-01 |
| WATSON, Angus Millar | Director | 2001-12-01 | 2003-03-06 |
| WHITE, John Richard | Director | 2001-11-16 | 2016-10-01 |
| WISELY, Ian Robert | Director | 2004-12-23 | 2011-01-06 |
| JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 2001-11-16 | 2001-11-16 |
| SEA-CARGO ABERDEEN LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2011-01-06 | 2011-09-27 |
| SEA-CARGO AS | Corporate Director | 2011-01-06 | 2011-09-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea-Cargo Aberdeen Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2019-06-17 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 126 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-06-22 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type full | |
| 2020-05-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-05-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-05-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-11-18 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2019-11-18 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2019-11-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2019-07-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2019-07-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
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.