SOFTWARE LEADERS LIMITED
Company number 04552256 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Software Leaders Limited is a long-established but declining micro IT consultancy that has seen net assets erode by 59% since 2017, from £426,187 to £175,826. The company's financial trajectory significantly underperforms sector norms for active IT consultancy practices, and its structure – single director, minimal liabilities, shrinking assets – is consistent with a personal service company either being wound down or struggling to generate revenue in a post-IR35 landscape. While the balance sheet remains solvent with negligible debt, the sustained drawdown on reserves raises serious questions about the viability of ongoing operations without a material change in trading conditions or business model.
Shareholders' funds
£51,180
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-10-03
- Employees
- 1 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 54 Echelon Walk, Colchester, Essex, CO4 6BW
- Postcode
- CO4 6BW
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-20
- Next due by
- 2026-10-04
Nature of business (SIC)
- 62020 Information technology consultancy activities
- 78109 Other activities of employment placement agencies
Officers 1 current · 4 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB215327 (Tier 1), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 10
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SUMMER COTTAGE (FIRST FLOOR) SCHOOL HILL, NACTON, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP10 0EH, ENGLAND | 2019-04-29 |
| SOFTWARE HOUSE 16 GRIFFITHS CLOSE, IPSWICH, IP4 3ER, ENGLAND | 2018-10-15 |
| 16 SOFTWARE HOUSE, 16 GRIFFITHS CLOSE, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP4 3ER, ENGLAND | 2016-09-16 |
| TECHNOLOGY HOUSE 25 ELDERBERRY ROAD, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP3 9US | 2016-08-16 |
| PEASEY HOUSE 15 PEASEY GARDENS, KESGRAVE, SUFFOLK, IP5 2GX | 2010-11-29 |
| 25 ST. MARGARETS GREEN, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP4 2BN | 2010-06-01 |
| SARACEN'S HOUSE 25 ST. MARGARETS GREEN, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP4 2BN | 2009-03-11 |
| FELAW MALTINGS, 44 FELAW STREET, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP2 8SJ | 2009-03-11 |
| 13 HARROW CLOSE, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP4 5DX | 2007-09-12 |
| 12-14 SAINT MARYS STREET, NEWPORT, SHROPSHIRE TF10 7AB | 2002-10-10 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 378 similar companies in CO
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2002.
Competitors Colchester
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3. DAMASC LTD
This company ranks 76 among information technology consultancy activities in Colchester.
The class of 2002
30%
of the 2,284 companies in this sector incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 68% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.