EUROPEAN ADMINISTRATION LIMITED
Company number 04207276 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
European Administration Limited operates in a defensible niche providing administrative services to barristers, with over two decades of market presence and the strategic backing of parent Bar Bidco Limited. However, the company is in a financially precarious position with net liabilities of £548,764, a 67% year-over-year cash decline to £46,284, and total liabilities growing at three times the rate of assets—making it entirely dependent on group support for survival. The strategic imperative is clear: management must urgently translate stated synergies into tangible profitability improvement and cash generation, or the business risks becoming an unsustainable drag on the parent's balance sheet.
Shareholders' funds
-£509,191
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is that of administrative services for barristers
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-04-27
- Employees
- 45 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Equity House, Blackbrook Park Avenue, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 2PX
- Postcode
- TA1 2PX
- Capital
- 5 GBP
- Accounts category
- Small
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-04-27
- Next due by
- 2027-05-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 8 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by BAR BIDCO LIMITED — since 2023-05-05
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z5553847 (Tier 1), registered since 2001.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| STAFFORD HOUSE, BLACKBROOK PARK AVENUE, TAUNTON, SOMERSET TA1 2PX | 2006-10-26 |
| EQUITY HOUSE, BLACKBROOK PARK AVENUE, TAUNTON, SOMERSET TA1 2PX | 2004-12-21 |
| 2 HERON GATE, TAUNTON, SOMERSET, TA1 2LR | 2004-02-07 |
| REDDINGS, APPLEGARTH, OAKRIDGE LANE, SIDCOT, WINSCOMBE, NORTH SOMERSET BS25 1LZ | 2001-05-24 |
Among its peers
3rd largest employer
of 284 similar companies in TA, with 45 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors Taunton
This company ranks 418 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Taunton.
The class of 2001
28%
of the 5,956 companies in this sector incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 70% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2019-01-02
- Where
- Somerset
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST349639 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2019-01-02 | — |
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