HOMESITTERS LIMITED
Company number 01516037 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Homesitters Limited is a long-established, debt-free business with a strong equity base that has grown consistently over the past decade. However, the credit profile is clouded by a significant deterioration in cash reserves—down 54% over two years—coupled with a high concentration of current assets in trade debtors (78.2%). While the current ratio of 2.44x remains healthy, the quality of working capital has weakened materially. Credit approval should be conditional upon satisfactory explanation of the cash decline, confirmation of debtor recoverability, and visibility over any dividend extraction by the parent company.
Shareholders' funds
£503,583
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1980-09-05
- Employees
- 135 (2025 accounts · was 147 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Squirrels 4 Jennetts Close, Tutts Clump, Reading, Berkshire, England, RG7 6JZ
- Postcode
- RG7 6JZ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 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
- 2025-12-24
- Next due by
- 2027-01-07
Nature of business (SIC)
- 80100 Private security activities
Officers 3 current · 4 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by HOMESITTERS HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2025-06-28
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z8004713 (Tier 2), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.homesitters.co.uk
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| BUCKLAND WHARF, BUCKLAND, AYLESBURY, BUCKS., HP22 5LQ | 2015-04-30 |
| KRESTON HOUSE, 8 GATE STREET, LONDON, WC2A 3HJ | 1986-07-12 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 68 similar companies in RG
3rd largest employer among its local peers (135 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1980.
No.4 of the largest private security activities companies in Reading →
Competitors Reading
This company ranks 4 among private security activities in Reading.
The class of 1980
49%
of the 8,850 companies incorporated in 1980 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.