ASTRA SECURITY SYSTEMS LIMITED
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Executive summary
Astra Security Systems Limited is a financially sound but strategically terminal local security business, effectively a captive subsidiary of Ward Security Holdings. Its strong cash position and local brand are overshadowed by its "Proposal to Strike off" status, indicating a planned dissolution or absorption into the parent group. The company's primary strategic challenge is not market growth, but managing a successful and orderly exit or integration that maximizes value for its ultimate parent. Any "growth" strategy is contingent on a reversal of this dissolution plan and a renewed mandate from Ward Security Holdings.
Shareholders' funds
£128,274
Balance sheet as at 2023-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1979-09-11
- Employees
- 9 (2023 accounts)
- Registered office
- Ward Security Head Office, Fitted Rigging House, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, England, ME4 4TZ
- Postcode
- ME4 4TZ
- Capital
- 104 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
- 2025-10-02
- Next due by
- 2026-10-16
Nature of business (SIC)
- 80100 Private security activities
Officers 4 current · 9 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by WARD SECURITY HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2024-01-10
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- astrasecurity.co.uk
- Phone
- 01622320036
Astra Security Systems provides domestic & commercial security & fire systems across Maidstone, Medway & Tonbridge. Get a free quote today!
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ASTRA SECURITY LOCK & SAFE COMPANY LIMITED | 1998-08-21 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 27 PUDDING LANE, MAIDSTONE, KENT, ME14 1PA | 2000-05-18 |
| 4 MUSEUM STREET, MAIDSTONE, KENT, ME14 1QD | 1994-06-29 |
The class of 1979
49%
of the 8,388 companies incorporated in 1979 are still active today; 43% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.