Link Up Mitaka Limited
Registered name: LINK UP MITAKA LIMITED
Part of Thebigword Group Holdings Limited groupLink Up Mitaka Limited made £8.5m revenue and £659k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Link Up Mitaka Limited’s revenue fell 9% to £8.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £659k profit and 77 employees. The company is classified under “translation and interpretation activities” and is based in Leeds; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 42 yrs · since 1984
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8.5m | £9.3m | £8.5m |
| Cost of sales | £4.6m | £5.1m | £4.6m |
| Gross profit | £3.9m | £4.2m | £3.9m |
| Profit before tax | −£374k | £1.1m | £948k |
| Profit after tax | −£222k | £978k | £659k |
| Profit (best available) | −£222k | £978k | £659k |
| Staff costs | — | £3.4m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 98 | 83 | 77 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −2.6% | 10.5% | 7.8% |
| Gross margin | 45.9% | 45.6% | 45.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £86.6k | £112k | £110k |
| Profit per employee | −£2.3k | £11.8k | £8.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.6% | ▼8.8% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼32.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼15.3% | ▼7.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £614k | £464k | £1.1m |
| Net assets | £2.6m | £3.6m | £4.2m |
| Fixed assets | £364k | £453k | £367k |
| Current assets | £59.4m | £52.3m | £65.5m |
| Debtors | £1.9m | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £1.5m | £1.4m | £989k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 45.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £110k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 11.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- 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
- ▲19%
- Now £4.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲147%
- Now £1.1m
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 77
- Deferred income
- ▼31%
- Now £989k
- Fixed assets
- ▼19%
- Now £367k
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
- Thebigword Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Thebigword Group Bidco Limited75–100%
- Thebigword Group Limited75–100%
- Link Up Mitaka Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Carmona UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mitaka LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Multilingual Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (5)
- Thebigword Interpreting Services LimitedRev. £49.6m · Profit £2.2m
- TBW Global LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thebigword BSL UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thebigword International LimitedRev. — · Profit £0
- Wordsynk LimitedRev. — · Profit £3.2m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £659k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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