SENTRY LIMITED
Company number 03830499 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Sentry Limited is navigating a challenging transition from traditional tenanted arable farming toward a diversified agricultural services model, with early evidence that its five-year strategic plan is gaining traction. The narrowing of losses from £205k to £65k, combined with a 73% increase in cash to £1.32m and growth in the Business Solutions consultancy division, demonstrates meaningful progress — though the company remains loss-making and carries a pension deficit that encumbers over half its net assets. Its scale, employee-ownership structure, and marketing capability provide competitive advantages within the mid-tier farm management sector, but persistent profitability challenges and exposure to commodity and climate volatility mean the strategic repositioning must continue to deliver tangible results before the business can be considered structurally secure.
Shareholders' funds
£3,304,508
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The Company continues to farm on tenanted land, provide contract and management service for clients farms
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-08-24
- Employees
- 60 (2025 accounts · was 59 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 7a Hill View Business Park Old Ipswich Road, Claydon, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, IP6 0AJ
- Postcode
- IP6 0AJ
- Capital
- 218,525 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-24
- Next due by
- 2027-09-07
Nature of business (SIC)
- 1110 Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
- 1610 Support activities for crop production
- 70229 Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Officers 9 current · 11 resigned
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z5098627 (Tier 1), registered since 2000.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- sentry.co.uk
- Phone
- 01473658058
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| SENTRY FARMS LIMITED | 2006-06-06 |
| BIDEAWHILE 301 LIMITED | 1999-10-26 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| THE HALL, WILLISHAM, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP8 4SL | 2019-12-17 |
| 24-26 MUSEUM STREET, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK IP1 1HZ | 1999-09-15 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 159 similar companies in IP
2nd largest employer among its local peers (60 staff).
Trading since 1999.
Competitors Ipswich
This company ranks 33 among growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds in Ipswich.
The class of 1999
43%
of the 64,736 companies incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2019-12-31
- Where
- Suffolk
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK400214 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2019-12-31 | — |
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