APPLEDENE LIMITED
Company number 01462152 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Appledene Limited functions as the employment and administrative backbone of the Appleyard Lees IP LLP group, but its financial position has deteriorated sharply with negative net assets of £62,115 and an 80% decline in cash reserves. The company's survival depends entirely on parent support, making it strategically vulnerable despite its operational importance to a 178-person organization. Immediate priorities must include restructuring the recharge pricing model to eliminate losses, accelerating intercompany settlements to restore liquidity, and establishing formal funding commitments that protect against parent-level disruptions.
Shareholders' funds
-£70,865
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1979-11-20
- Employees
- 178 (2025 accounts · was 168 in 2024)
- Registered office
- G Mill, Dean Clough Industrial Park, Halifax, England, HX3 5AH
- Postcode
- HX3 5AH
- Capital
- 2,500 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-20
- Next due by
- 2027-08-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 7 current · 23 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2030404 (Tier 2), registered since 2010.
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Among its peers
2nd largest employer
of 162 similar companies in HX, with 178 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors Halifax
This company ranks 203 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Halifax.
The class of 1979
42%
of the 234 companies in this sector incorporated in 1979 are still active today; 57% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.