Administration · 3 August 2026
Avtar Construction
Main contractor · Swindon · South West England
What happened
AVTAR CONSTRUCTION LIMITED (company number 07166905), incorporated in 2010, entered administration on 3 August 2026. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.
Why it failed
Rising costs, late customer payments, a 200,000 pound bad debt and costlier financing created working capital pressure; funding was withdrawn or refused, a winding-up petition followed and trading stopped.
- Main reason: Cash flow
- Clients not paying or failing
- Funding withdrawn
- Cost inflation
Our summary of the reasons given in the administrators' proposals. These record the administrators' and directors' account of what happened.
An administrator, a licensed insolvency practitioner, takes control of the company to try to rescue it, sell the business or get a better result for creditors than a liquidation.
Timeline
The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.
31 August 2025
Last accounts filed were made up to this date
12 months later
3 August 2026
Administration started
AccountsPayment reportInsolvency
Before it failed
Key figures
- Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 3 August 2026
- £5.5m
- of which trade creditors £4.2m. about 276 creditors. HMRC owed £420k. a further £163k owed to its lenders. Expected return to unsecured creditors: none expected
- Administrators' proposals
The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 August 2025, 11 months before it went into administration.
The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.
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