Blankney Estates Limited
Registered name: BLANKNEY ESTATES LIMITED
Blankney Estates Limited made £530k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Blankney Estates Limited reported £530k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 100 employees. The company is classified under “growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds” and is based in Lincoln; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Lincoln, East Midlands
- Age
- 86 yrs · since 1940
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The company is controlled by the Parker Family.”
Key figures
This company published its profit but not its turnover, so revenue and margins are not disclosed. We never estimate them.
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Profit only | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.8m | £19.1m | — | — |
| Cost of sales | £14.6m | £12.9m | £15.7m | £15.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.3m | £6.2m | — | — |
| Operating profit | £212k | £4.2m | — | — |
| Profit before tax | −£405k | £3m | −£1.6m | £810k |
| Profit after tax | −£118k | £2.6m | −£426k | £530k |
| Profit (best available) | −£118k | £2.6m | −£426k | £530k |
| Staff costs | £4m | £4.3m | £4.5m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 127 | 137 | 134 | 100 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −0.7% | 13.8% | — | — |
| Gross margin | 13.4% | 32.5% | — | — |
| Revenue per employee | £133k | £139k | — | — |
| Profit per employee | −£928 | £19.2k | −£3.2k | £5.3k |
| Cash conversion | −39.6% | 73.2% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.2% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼116.2% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.9% | ▼2.2% | ▼25.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £582k | £547k | £355k | £8.8k |
| Net assets | £4.3m | £7.1m | £6.7m | £19.8m |
| Fixed assets | £19.8m | £18m | £19.6m | £37.3m |
| Current assets | £12.8m | £21.3m | £20.9m | £12.4m |
| Debtors | £703k | £1m | £837k | £1.6m |
| Deferred income | £1.1m | £1.2m | £711k | £329k |
| Cash from operations | −£83.7k | £3.1m | −£2.1m | −£15.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲195%
- Now £19.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼98%
- Now £8.8k
- Headcount
- ▼25%
- Now 100
- Deferred income
- ▼54%
- Now £329k
- Fixed assets
- ▲90%
- Now £37.3m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Subsidiaries (5)
- British Chlorophyll Company LimitedRev. — · Profit £367k
- British Crop Driers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lucerne Estates LimitedFigures not disclosed
- W.parker & Sons(Farmers)limitedFigures not disclosed
- W.parker & Sons(Mickleholme)limitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £530k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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