CARDEN CONSULTING LTD
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Executive summary
Carden Consulting Ltd operates as a highly liquid, asset-light micro-consultancy within the fragmented UK management consulting sector, likely leveraging a specialized defense and maritime niche. While the firm boasts an exceptionally strong, debt-free balance sheet that far exceeds typical industry norms for micro-enterprises, the recent contraction in current assets and net assets suggests either a deliberate extraction of capital by the owners or a softening in trading activity. Moving forward, the firm's competitive position remains secure within its niche, though it remains fundamentally constrained by key-person dependency and an inability to scale without structural changes.
Shareholders' funds
£91,805
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
What it does
70229
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2008-02-18
- Employees
- 1 (2026 accounts)
- Registered office
- 2 Gamblins Lane, Shirrell Heath, Southampton, SO32 2JU
- Postcode
- SO32 2JU
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-28
- Next due by
- 2027-02-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 70229 Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Officers 2 current · 2 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA512107 (Tier 1), registered since 2019.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,510 similar companies in SO
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2008.
Competitors Southampton
This company ranks 236 among management consultancy activities other than financial management in Southampton.
The class of 2008
21%
of the 10,975 companies in this sector incorporated in 2008 are still active today; 78% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.