ASCOTTS GROUP LIMITED
Company number 01256619 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Ascotts Group Limited is a solvent, cleanly audited, £27.9m-revenue taxi sales and servicing business whose reported £197,522 profit is almost entirely manufactured from a £272,702 one-off credit and a £181,684 non-cash deferred tax release — underlying trading produced an operating loss of roughly £202,000. The balance sheet carries the real risk: stock of £6.1m equals 80% of total assets against equity of only £363k, and liquidity depends on paying suppliers in 117 days rather than on cash, with interest cover at a fragile 1.24×. The business earns a C− grade — stable but symptomatic — and its prognosis is recoverable, provided management prioritises unwinding inventory (targeting £1.0–1.5m of cash release), rebuilding gross margin through aftersales, and halting distributions until equity and interest cover are restored to safer levels.
Shareholders' funds
£363,132
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of taxi cab hire and providing garage facilities for, and services to, taxi cabs.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1976-05-03
- Employees
- 41 (2025 accounts · was 52 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 11 Applegarth Drive Questor, Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom, DA1 1JD
- Postcode
- DA1 1JD
- Capital
- 106 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-10-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45190 Sale of other motor vehicles
- 45200 Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
- 49320 Taxi operation
Officers 4 current · 6 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA055015 (Tier 2), registered since 2014.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- ascottsgroup.co.uk
- Phone
- 02086921122
Ascotts Group is the largest independent LEVC taxi provider and approved taxi repair service in the whole of the South East
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ASCOTT CAB CO. LTD. | 2021-09-15 |
| ASCOTT & HOBSON LIMITED | 1991-10-08 |
| CHOICETOPIC LIMITED | 1979-12-31 |
Previous registered addresses 10
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 125-127 EVELYN STREET, LONDON, SE8 5RJ | 2013-09-12 |
| 125-127 EVELYN STREET, LONDON, SE8 5RJ | 2013-09-12 |
| 125-127 EVELYN STREET, LONDON, SE8 5RJ, ENGLAND | 2012-08-08 |
| VICTORIA WHARF GROVE STREET, LONDON, SE8 3NW | 2011-11-02 |
| VICTORIA WHARF, GROVE STREET, LONDON, SE8 3NW | 2008-11-25 |
| VICTORIA WHARF, GROVE STREET, LONDON, SE8 3NW | 2008-11-25 |
| 126-128,DRUID STREET., BERMONDSEY., LONDON., SE1 2HH | 2003-12-29 |
| BRIGHTON HOUSE, 23/25 HIGH STREET, EWELL, EPSOM, SURREY, KT17 1SB | 1991-03-18 |
| 46 CHURCH AUG, BECKENHAM, KENT, BR3 1DT | 1989-11-24 |
| 46 CHURCH AUG, BECKENHAM, KENT, BR3 1DT | 1989-11-24 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 18 similar companies in DA
The largest employer among its local peers (41 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1976.
Competitors Dartford
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5. HARITZ LTD
This company ranks 2 among sale of other motor vehicles in Dartford.
The class of 1976
51%
of the 7,067 companies incorporated in 1976 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2019-12-17
- Where
- Kent (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT106542 | Kent | Leasehold | 2019-12-17 | — |
| TT86932 | Kent | Leasehold | 2018-10-03 | — |
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