Annual accounts
Total Exemption Full accounts
30/09/2027Filing deadline
- Next accounts made up to
- 31/12/2026
- Last accounts made up to
- 31/12/2025
Reference data exactly as held at Companies House.
The 4 most recent documents filed at Companies House.
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement made on 2026-02-10 with updates
Confirmation statement made on 2025-12-05 with updates
Cessation of Howard Rishton as a person with significant control on 2025-09-16
What Pre-Score will tell you

The two filings Companies House requires every year, and where each one stands against its deadline today.
Total Exemption Full accounts
30/09/2027Filing deadline
Confirms the registry record is up to date
24/02/2027Filing deadline
The latest figures SDL GROUP LIMITED filed. Okredo holds filed accounts data for 2021–2025; the year-by-year record is on the financials page.
Net Assets
2024: £3.51M
Total Assets
2024: £5.69M
Cash in Bank
2024: £253.80K
Total Liabilities
2024: £1.32M
Employees
2024: 1
Of the 4 measures with an earlier filing to compare against, 4 rose. Total assets moved furthest, up 11.63% on 2024. See the full financial analysis for SDL GROUP LIMITED.
The full financial record
Four ways through SDL GROUP LIMITED's filed accounts — the year-by-year numbers, the compound rates and the ratios behind them.
Headcount as reported to Companies House for 2021–2025.
| Year | Employees | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | -54 |
| 2023 | 55 | +6 |
| 2022 | 49 | +10 |
| 2021 | 39 | – |
Reported employee count decreased from 39 in 2021 to 1 in 2025. See how headcount moved alongside the reported financials.
Credit report
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Directors, secretaries and other appointed officers, with the period each has served.
| Person | Role | Period | Connected companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director | 11/04/2003–Present | 7 | |
| Director | 01/10/2006–26/11/2009 | 5 | |
| Director | 11/04/2003–Present | 5 | |
| Director | 01/05/2010–20/10/2011 | 0 | |
| Director | 01/10/2006–31/12/2011 | 0 | |
| Director | 13/12/2009–04/11/2019 | 0 | |
| Director | 13/12/2009–04/11/2019 | 0 |
Individuals or entities with significant control over the company, as declared to Companies House.
| Person | Period | Connected companies |
|---|---|---|
| 01/01/2019–16/09/2025 | 7 | |
| 01/01/2019–Present | 5 | |
| 01/01/2019–16/09/2025 | 5 | |
| 12/06/2020–Present | 0 | |
| 12/06/2020–16/09/2025 | 0 | |
| 06/04/2016–12/06/2020 | 14 | |
| 12/06/2020–Present | 20 | |
| 12/06/2020–05/04/2021 | 20 | |
| 01/01/2019–Present | 7 | |
| 16/09/2025–Present | 0 |
Every document on the Companies House record, newest first.
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement made on 2026-02-10 with updates
Confirmation statement made on 2025-12-05 with updates
Cessation of Howard Rishton as a person with significant control on 2025-09-16
Notification of Sdl Group (2025) Holdings Limited as a person with significant control on 2025-09-16
Cessation of Lloyd Spencer Green as a person with significant control on 2021-04-05
Cessation of Charles George Lord as a person with significant control on 2025-09-16
Cessation of Patrick John Lord as a person with significant control on 2025-09-16
Total exemption full accounts made up to 2024-12-31
Withdrawal of the directors' register information from the public register
Directors' register information at 2025-01-21 on withdrawal from the public register
Confirmation statement made on 2024-12-05 with updates
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A short description of the company, written from its Companies House record.
SDL GROUP LIMITED is a private limited company registered in the United Kingdom, based in Britannia Centre, Network 65 Business Park, Hapton Burnley, Lancashire BB11 5ST. Companies House classifies its business as Non-specialised wholesale trade. It has been on the register for 42 years 7 months.
The register currently records it as active. Its 2025 accounts report net assets of £3.84M and 1 employee.
Answered from this company's own registry record and filed figures.
Companies House records SDL GROUP LIMITED under one registered business activity: Non-specialised wholesale trade (46.90 - SIC 2007).
SDL GROUP LIMITED is recorded as active on the Companies House register, and has been on it since 16/02/1984.
The most recent accounts Okredo holds cover 2025 and report net assets of £3.84M, total assets of £6.36M, cash in bank of £753.39K and total liabilities of £1.58M.
The most recent document on the record is dated 23/07/2026: Total exemption full accounts made up to 2025-12-31, 2 months ago.
On the current registry record, accounts are due by 30/09/2027 and the next confirmation statement is due by 24/02/2027.
Companies House lists 7 officers (2 currently in post) and 10 people with significant control (5 current).