ELGAR WORKS LIMITED
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Executive summary
ELGAR WORKS LIMITED represents a financially stable but strategically stagnant cultural enterprise, with a respectable £248k net asset base that has plateaued over the past five years while liabilities have nearly doubled. The organization's guarantee structure, heritage brand, and governance depth are underleveraged assets; realizing their potential requires addressing the fundamental scale mismatch between governance ambition and operational capacity, prioritizing digital transformation, and actively pursuing mission-aligned revenue diversification before reserve erosion accelerates.
Shareholders' funds
£247,510
Balance sheet as at 2026-01-03
Overview
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Incorporated
- 2007-01-03
- Employees
- 0 (2026 accounts)
- Registered office
- 20 High Street, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 1ER
- Postcode
- WD3 1ER
- Accounts category
- Micro
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-01-03
- Next due by
- 2027-10-03
- Financial year end
- 3 January
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-03
- Next due by
- 2027-01-17
Nature of business (SIC)
- 58110 Book publishing
- 58190 Other publishing activities
- 90020 Support activities to performing arts
Officers 7 current · 5 resigned
Registered charity
ELGAR WORKS LIMITED — charity number 1156953
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 46 similar companies in WD
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2007.
Competitors Watford
This company ranks 4 among book publishing in Watford.
The class of 2007
36%
of the 269 companies in this sector incorporated in 2007 are still active today; 61% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.