ROPSLEY LIMITED
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Cash
£2.2m
+61.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£3.3m
+3% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
224
-0.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£111k
+164.6% first positive since 2024
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £21,408,485 | £29,698,584 | £38,018,052 | +28% | |
| Operating profit | £911,534 | £142,804 | £523,665 | +266.7% | |
| Profit before tax | £727,719 | -£171,674 | £110,836 | +164.6% | |
| Net profit | £323,088 | £227,253 | £98,161 | -56.8% | |
| Cash | £4,322,639 | £1,359,208 | £2,200,966 | +61.9% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,603,087 | £4,226,404 | £4,195,911 | -0.7% | |
| Net assets | £2,464,198 | £3,248,890 | £3,347,051 | +3% | |
| Equity | £2,464,198 | £3,248,890 | £3,347,051 | +3% | |
| Average employees | 131 | 225 | 224 | -0.4% | |
| Wages | £11,253,867 | £15,401,704 | £17,635,673 | +14.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,078,472 | £1,479,990 | £551,612 | -62.7% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £41,095 | £51,610 | £33,825 | -34.5% | |
| Highest paid director | £392,993 | £539,529 | £212,354 | -60.6% |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.3% | 0.5% | 1.4% | |
| Net margin | 1.5% | 0.8% | 0.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 25.3% | 3.4% | 12.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 68.7% | 71.7% | 74.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.81x | 1.37x | 1.27x | |
| Interest cover | 4.42x | 0.42x | 1.24x |
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
- Malcolm Piper & Company Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- ROPSLEY LIMITED · parent
- PJD Mechanical Engineering Limited 100%
- TMS (International) Ltd 100%
- Peter J Douglas Engineering Limited 100%
- Piper Services Ltd 80%
- Greens Power Limited 100%
- E Green & Sons Limited 100%
- Senior Green & Sons Limited 100%
- UEC Mechanical Engineering Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 24 February 2025, Ropsley Limited acquired 1 Ordinary share in the share capital of UEC Mechanical Engineering Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLARK, Timothy Alan | Director | 2022-11-24 | Sep 1980 | British |
| ELLIOTT, Alexander Robert | Director | 2022-11-24 | Jun 1989 | British |
| HAYLE, David Nicholas | Director | 2016-11-01 | Jun 1968 | British |
| HODSON, Brian Philip | Director | 2016-11-02 | Apr 1952 | British |
| HORNSBY, Richard Keith | Director | 2026-04-14 | Sep 1983 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGLAS, Peter James | Director | 2016-11-02 | 2022-11-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Nicholas Hayle | Individual | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-11-01 | Ceased 2017-06-22 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 39 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-05-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-05-16 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-04-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-03 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-05-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-05-16 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-05-08 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-05-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-11-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-11-03 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2021-03-25 | 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.