Box & Charnock Limited
Registered name: BOX & CHARNOCK LIMITED
Part of Box & Charnock Holdings Ltd groupBox & Charnock Limited made £28.2m revenue and £93.4k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Box & Charnock Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £28.2m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £93.4k profit and 43 employees. The company is classified under “plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation” and is based in Bedford; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bedford, South East
- Age
- 48 yrs · since 1977
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £31.6m | £28.4m | £24.9m | £28.2m |
| Cost of sales | £29.2m | £26.3m | £23.2m | £26.7m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2.1m | £1.7m | £1.5m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £453k | £449k | £98.8k |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £461k | £471k | £131k |
| Profit after tax | £933k | £423k | £445k | £93.4k |
| Profit (best available) | £933k | £423k | £445k | £93.4k |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.1m | £1.9m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 39 | 44 | 40 | 43 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1.8% | 0.3% |
| Gross margin | 7.8% | 7.4% | 6.8% | 5.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £811k | £645k | £623k | £656k |
| Profit per employee | £23.9k | £9.6k | £11.1k | £2.2k |
| Cash conversion | 106.3% | −531.7% | −147.3% | 2119% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼10.3% | ▼12.3% | ▲13.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼54.7% | ▲5.1% | ▼79% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲12.8% | ▼9.1% | ▲7.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4m | £1.6m | £707k | £2.7m |
| Net assets | £5.2m | £5.7m | £6.1m | £6.2m |
| Fixed assets | £124k | £84.5k | £119k | £144k |
| Current assets | £16m | £11.6m | £10.5m | £11.9m |
| Debtors | £2.9m | £2.1m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Deferred income | £1.5m | £1.4m | £1.1m | £1.2m |
| Cash from operations | £1.2m | −£2.4m | −£662k | £2.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 5.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £656k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 2119%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.1%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £6.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲289%
- Now £2.7m
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 43
- Deferred income
- ▲9%
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▲20%
- Now £144k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Box & Charnock Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Box & Charnock Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £93.4k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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