SHERWOODS MOTOR GROUP LIMITED
Company number 02876229 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Sherwoods Motor Group is in exceptional financial health, demonstrating record-breaking profitability, a 28% surge in turnover, and a near tripling of cash reserves in 2025. Despite challenging macroeconomic conditions, the company has strengthened its balance sheet significantly, retaining earnings to build robust resilience. With clean audit opinions and strong operational metrics, the business is well-positioned for strategic expansion in 2026.
Shareholders' funds
£9,851,865
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of purchasing, selling and repairing of motor vehicles and other ancillary services within the UK.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1993-11-29
- Employees
- 152 (2025 accounts · was 158 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Sherwoods Motor Group Crowther Road, Crowther Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne And Wear, England, NE38 0AQ
- Postcode
- NE38 0AQ
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 9 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 30 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-20
- Next due by
- 2026-11-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45111 Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles
Officers 4 current · 11 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by SHERWOODS HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2019-02-11
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 2
£164,486 total awarded value where published.
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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 — Z4856159 (Tier 2), registered since 2000.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- sherwoodsmotorgroup.co.uk
- Phone
- 01913570961, 03001239123, 01916396966
Sherwoods Motor Group, your local Peugeot, Suzuki, Citroën, Maxus and Isuzu dealer. Explore our new & used vehicles or talk to us about servicing and repairs.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| SHERWOODS (DARLINGTON) LIMITED | 2018-12-10 |
| EQUALMUSIC TRADING LIMITED | 1994-02-01 |
Previous registered addresses 8
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SHERWOODS DURHAM ALMA PLACE, DURHAM CITY RETAIL PARK, DURHAM, DH1 2HN, ENGLAND | 2019-06-14 |
| 99 STANHOPE ROAD SOUTH, DARLINGTON, COUNTY DURHAM, DL3 7SF, ENGLAND | 2019-02-02 |
| CHESNUT STREET, DARLINGTON, DL1 1RJ | 2018-10-22 |
| 10 CHISWELL STREET, 2ND FLOOR, LONDON, EC1Y 4UQ | 2018-05-29 |
| 4 CHISWELL STREET, LONDON, EC1Y 4UP | 2008-07-14 |
| 6TH FLOOR THAVIES INN HOUSE, 3-4 HOLBORN CIRCUS, LONDON, EC1N 2HL | 2001-11-28 |
| 27 CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, WC2A 1NF | 1997-04-08 |
| 2 BACHES STREET, LONDON, N1 6UB | 1994-01-04 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 27 similar companies in NE
The largest employer among its local peers (152 staff).
Trading since 1993.
No.1 of the largest sale of new cars and light motor vehicles companies in Newcastle Upon Tyne →
Competitors Newcastle Upon Tyne
This company ranks 1 among sale of new cars and light motor vehicles in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
The class of 1993
49%
of the 25,070 companies incorporated in 1993 are still active today; 48% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 5 titles
- Leasehold
- 5
- Most recent registration
- 2026-04-29
- Where
- Tyne And Wear (4), County Durham (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TY618058 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2026-04-29 | — |
| TY609542 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2025-02-18 | — |
| TY567067 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2019-06-28 | — |
| TY567068 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2019-06-28 | — |
| DU325342 | County Durham | Leasehold | 2019-02-05 | — |
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