ARD WARE LIMITED
ActiveKey figures
Like most small UK companies, ARD WARE LIMITED does not publish a profit and loss account in its latest accounts. The figures below come from the balance sheet.
Ratios
2024/25Sector comparison
SIC 62012Where the company stands among the 94,838 active companies whose first SIC code is 62012 (Business and domestic software development).
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Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 94,838. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: ARD WARE LIMITED
What kind of company is it?
ARD WARE LIMITED is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 04157440. It was incorporated on 9 Feb 2001. Its status is active. The registered office is in Salisbury (SP2). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is business and domestic software development (62012).
How is the company doing financially?
The latest accounts in the database are for 2024/25 (period ending 30 Apr 2025); the company files micro-entity accounts. Net assets were £84, up 68% on the previous year. Total assets were £12,574 and total liabilities £12,490. The company had an average of 1 employee. Figures are available for 6 financial years (2019/20–2024/25).
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with 94,838 active companies whose first SIC code is 62012: By net assets it ranks lower than 70% of them (median £5,654). By total assets it ranks lower than 64% of them (median £30,253). By number of employees it is around the median of them (1). It is older than 96% of them (median age 2.2 years).
Does it supply the public sector?
The company is named as a supplier in 2 public contract award notices from 2 public sector buyers since 2023. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £27.7k.
Who runs and controls the company?
The company has 1 current director. One person with significant control is registered.
When are its next filings due?
The next accounts are due by 31 Jan 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 25 Mar 2027.
Filed accounts2019/20–2024/25
| 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 2,356 | 4,001 | 8,785 | 10,422 | 12,574 |
| Total liabilities | 11,562 | 8,938 | 8,114 | 10,372 | 12,490 |
| Net assets / total equity | 9,206 | 4,937 | 671 | 50 | 84 |
| Average number of employees | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.
Public contracts
2 contractsARD WARE LIMITED is named as a supplier in 2 public contract award notices from 2 public sector buyers since 2023. Their combined published value is £27.7k.
- UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
- 1 contract · £16k
- UK Research and Innovation
- 1 contract · £11.7k
- DDaT25237 - Software and support‡UK Research and Innovation · £11,732
- CRI Firmware development Part1. Firmware: RZ/A1H pin configuration & hardware debuggingUK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £16,001
From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Notices marked ‡ do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.
History
22 events- Financial year 2024/25 endedAccounts: net assets £84, 1 employee
- Financial year 2023/24 endedAccounts: net assets £50, 1 employee
- Financial year 2022/23 endedAccounts: net assets £671, 1 employee
- Financial year 2021/22 endedAccounts: net assets £4,937, 1 employee
- Financial year 2020/21 endedAccounts: net assets £9,206, 2 employees
- Financial year 2019/20 endedAccounts: net assets £311, 2 employees
- Ms April Anne Somerset ceased to be a person with significant control
- Mr David Adam Grey Fullerton registered as a person with significant control
Earlier events (14)
- Ms April Anne Somerset registered as a person with significant control
- Irene Christian FULLERTON resignedDirector
- Douglas Stanley TOATES resignedDirector
- Rufus William SIDFORD resignedDirector
- Irene Christian FULLERTON appointedDirector
- DMCS SECRETARIES LIMITED resignedNominee secretary (corporate)
- DMCS DIRECTORS LIMITED resignedNominee director (corporate)
- Thomas Edward LACEY appointedSecretary
- David Adam Grey FULLERTON appointedDirector
- DMCS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointedNominee secretary (corporate)
- Rufus William SIDFORD appointedDirector
- Douglas Stanley TOATES appointedDirector
- DMCS DIRECTORS LIMITED appointedNominee director (corporate)
- Company incorporatedPrivate limited company
Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current and former persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database.