Strong Financial Performance & Operational Delivery
The Directors are pleased with the company’s performance during 2025, with the business delivering a significant increase in turnover and profitability compared to the previous year. Several major contracts secured during 2024 progressed into full delivery throughout the year, including the continued refurbishment works at Woolwich Town Hall for the Royal Borough of Greenwich together with a number of other substantial public and private sector schemes.
The Directors are particularly satisfied not only with the increase in activity, but with the quality of delivery and operational performance achieved throughout the period. Careful project selection, disciplined commercial management and the continued emphasis on long-term relationships with clients and supply chain partners have enabled the business to maintain healthy margins despite continuing pressures across the wider construction market.
The successful mobilisation and delivery of our largest contract to date at Woolwich Town Hall represented another important milestone for the business and further demonstrated the company’s capability in delivering technically challenging refurbishment and heritage projects within occupied and sensitive environments.
Diversification & Market Position
Our strategy of maintaining a balanced portfolio across public sector, education, healthcare, heritage and private residential sectors continued to provide resilience throughout the year. Whilst certain areas of the construction market remained uncertain amid ongoing economic pressures and cautious client spending, our diversified client base and strong order book allowed the company to maintain momentum and selectively pursue opportunities aligned with our operational strengths and commercial objectives.
The private residential and heritage sectors continue to represent areas of growing opportunity for the business. Projects such as 32 Morden Road progressed well throughout the year and further reinforced our capabilities within high-end refurbishment and complex listed building works. We also noted a welcome increase in opportunities from The Arch Company during the latter part of the year, resulting in several project awards towards the close of 2025. We are hopeful this developing relationship will continue to strengthen going into 2026 and beyond.
Our public sector relationships remain central to the company’s future. Increasingly, clients are seeking contractors who can demonstrate stability, quality, social value and collaborative delivery alongside competitive pricing, and we believe Standage & Co continues to distinguish itself positively in these areas.
Following the successful completion of Comet Nursery for the London Borough of Hackney, we were particularly pleased to secure a further Design & Build project for them at Stoke Newington School valued at approximately £2.5 million, which will commence in 2026.
The company also continued recent successful working relationships with both the London Borough of Wandsworth and Enfield Council through refurbishment and cyclical works projects, including the Kambala Estate cyclical repairs and redecoration programme in Battersea and the Grade II listed Bramley House Court sheltered housing refurbishment scheme.
Investment in the Business
The Directors continued to invest in the company’s systems, management structure and operational processes during the year as part of a broader commitment to continuous improvement and maintaining high standards across the business.
Particular focus continues to be placed on commercial oversight, compliance, project reporting and overall quality of delivery as the company positions itself for long-term sustainable growth. The company continues to review its operational and management resources to ensure the right structure is in place to support clients and maintain the standards expected of the business.
The company enters 2026 with optimism, supported by a strong secured workload, developing client relationships and continued opportunities across both public and private sectors. Early in 2026, the company also received notification of a successful outcome in relation to a new Royal Borough of Greenwich framework, further strengthening an already important long-term client relationship.
The Directors remain focused on controlled, sustainable growth together with continued investment in the business and its service offering.
The key financial performance indicators for the year ended 31 December 2025 are set out below:
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2025
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2024
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£
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£
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Turnover
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14,288,188
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8,506.838
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Gross Profit
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2,160,162
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1,153,130
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Operating Profit
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1,247,608
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234,786
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During the year, Standage & Co Ltd declared and paid a dividend of £1,806,720 to Standage Group Ltd, principally in settlement of outstanding intercompany balances. Consequently, the Company's net capital and reserves reduced from £3.9 million in 2024 to £3.0 million in 2025.
On the following pages of these financial statements are the results for the year ended 31 December 2025.