WADE MACDONALD LIMITED
Company number 02585194 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Wade Macdonald Limited occupies a stable but strategically static position in the Thames Valley recruitment market, leveraging 33 years of market presence and a conservatively managed balance sheet with £423,865 in cash and near-zero debt. The firm's immediate priority should be converting financial optionality into strategic momentum—through consultant reinvestment, digital capability building, or targeted acquisitions—while simultaneously addressing the existential risk of leadership succession that constrains both growth trajectory and exit value.
Shareholders' funds
£250,385
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
What it does
Other activities of employment placement agencies
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1991-02-25
- Employees
- 16 (2026 accounts · was 18 in 2025)
- Registered office
- Larkstoke,, Mortimer Lane, Reading, Berkshire, England, RG7 3PP
- Postcode
- RG7 3PP
- Capital
- 22,300 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-24
- Next due by
- 2027-03-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 78109 Other activities of employment placement agencies
Officers 3 current · 8 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z819130X (Tier 2), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- wademacdonald.co.uk
This is the digital representation of us and what we have to offer you. Our main focus is supporting individuals in their job search and businesses with their talent hiring...
Previous registered addresses 7
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| C/O DOMINIC WADE, 7 GREYFRIARS ROAD, GREYFRIAR’S GATE, READING, BERKSHIRE, RG1 1NU, ENGLAND | 2015-05-14 |
| HEDRICH HOUSE, 14-16 CROSS STREET, READING, BERKSHIRE, RG1 1SN | 2014-11-05 |
| 175/177 TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON, EC4Y 0DB | 2000-04-20 |
| 115/116 NEWGATE STREET, LONDON, EC1A 7AE | 1999-03-05 |
| 3RD FLOOR, 22 CROSS STREET, READING, BERKSHIRE RG1 1SN | 1994-04-17 |
| 3RD FLOOR, 22 CROSS STREET, READING, BERKSHIRE RG1 1SN | 1994-04-17 |
| 118/119 NEWGATE STREET, LONDON, EC1A 7AE | 1991-09-19 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 301 similar companies in RG
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (16 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1991.
Competitors Reading
This company ranks 35 among other activities of employment placement agencies in Reading.
The class of 1991
49%
of the 20,887 companies incorporated in 1991 are still active today; 45% 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
- 2014-10-24
- Where
- Reading
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BK464432 | Reading | Leasehold | 2014-10-24 | — |
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