1602 GROUP LIMITED
Company number 04366768 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
1602 Group Limited has a sound balance sheet with strong liquidity, no long-term debt, and a long history of positive net assets, suggesting limited immediate solvency risk. However, FY2025 shows declining equity and cash, rising inventory, and an absence of filed profit information, while recent director resignations and an opaque trust-based ownership structure add governance uncertainty. Overall risk is assessed as MEDIUM, driven more by operational and informational ambiguity than by current financial distress.
Shareholders' funds
£753,891
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-02-05
- Employees
- 8 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Lewis House, Great Chesterford Court, Great Chesterford, Essex, CB10 1PF
- Postcode
- CB10 1PF
- Capital
- 100,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-01
- Next due by
- 2027-07-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 32200 Manufacture of musical instruments
Officers 2 current · 5 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by 1602 GROUP TRUSTEES LIMITED — since 2025-07-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HS102 LIMITED | 2002-06-25 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SOUTH LODGE HOUSE, 68-70 FROGGE STREET, ICKLETON, SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CB10 1SH | 2015-03-09 |
| HSA & CO CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, SOUTH LODGE HOUSE, 68-70 FROGGE STREET ICKLETON, SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE CB10 1SH | 2002-07-21 |
| 33 PRICE STREET, BURSLEM, STOKE ON TRENT, STAFFORDSHIRE ST6 4JJ | 2002-07-12 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 8 similar companies in CB
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 2002.
Competitors Cambridge
This company ranks 1 among manufacture of musical instruments in Cambridge.
The class of 2002
39%
of the 122,928 companies incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.