DONNINGTON LABORATORIES LIMITED
Company number 04011391 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Donnington Laboratories Limited is a long-standing, asset-rich company with negligible external debt and exceptional liquidity, easily supporting an APPROVE credit decision. However, its financial stability is heavily reliant on a £640k intercompany debtor, making the company's standalone creditworthiness intrinsically linked to the financial health of its wider corporate group. Monitoring should focus on the collectability of this group loan and the underlying profitability of the core trading operations.
Shareholders' funds
£1,147,204
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company during the year under review was technical testing and analysis.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2000-06-09
- Employees
- 12 (2025 accounts · was 13 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 3 Donnington Park, Birdham Road, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 7DU
- Postcode
- PO20 7DU
- Capital
- 500 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
- 2026-08-10
- Next due by
- 2027-08-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 71200 Technical testing and analysis
Officers 1 current · 5 resigned
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 4 GODIVA LAWN, SOUTHSEA, HAMPSHIRE PO4 8HT | 2000-08-10 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 40 similar companies in PO
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (12 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 2000.
No.1 of the largest technical testing and analysis companies in Portsmouth →
Competitors Portsmouth
This company ranks 1 among technical testing and analysis in Portsmouth.
The class of 2000
41%
of the 75,534 companies incorporated in 2000 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2021-09-02
- Where
- West Sussex (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSX427063 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2021-09-02 | — |
| WSX351814 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2012-08-02 | — |
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