Iea Environmental Projects Limited
Registered name: IEA ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS LIMITED
Part of Rio Tinto PLC groupIea Environmental Projects Limited made £2.2m revenue and £147k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Iea Environmental Projects Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £2.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £147k profit and 10 employees. The company is classified under “other information service activities” and is based in Cheltenham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cheltenham, South West
- Age
- 39 yrs · since 1987
- 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's parent company is Rio Tinto Holdings Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.4m | £1.6m | £2.1m | £2.2m |
| Operating profit | £46.1k | £43.7k | £80.8k | £88.7k |
| Profit before tax | £47.3k | £62.1k | £140k | £151k |
| Profit after tax | £47k | £62k | £136k | £147k |
| Profit (best available) | £47k | £62k | £136k | £147k |
| Staff costs | £511k | £565k | £589k | £619k |
| Employees (average) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.4% | 4% | 6.6% | 6.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £139k | £156k | £206k | £224k |
| Profit per employee | £4.7k | £6.2k | £13.6k | £14.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.7% | ▲32.4% | ▲8.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲31.9% | ▲119.3% | ▲8.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £3.2m | £3.4m | £3.5m | £2.8m |
| Net assets | £100 | £100 | £100 | £100 |
| Current assets | £3.5m | £3.6m | £3.8m | £3.4m |
| Debtors | £146k | £149k | £59k | £376k |
| Deferred income | £424k | £418k | £480k | £369k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £224k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.7k
- 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
- 16.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.8%
- 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
- 0%
- Now £100
- Cash at bank
- ▼22%
- Now £2.8m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 10
- Deferred income
- ▼23%
- Now £369k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Rio Tinto PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Rio Tinto International Holdings Limited75–100%
- Iea Environmental Projects Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Iea Coal Research LimitedLiquidationFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (24)
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- Borax Europe LimitedFigures not disclosed
- British Alcan Aluminium LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ioc Sales LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lawson Mardon Flexible LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lawson Mardon Smith Brothers Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Pechiney Aviatube LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Bahia Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Bauxite Atlantic LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Copper Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Energy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Finance (USA) PLCFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Finance PLCFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Indonesian Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Iron Ore Atlantic LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Iron Ore Trading China LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Ot Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Overseas Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Simfer UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto South East Asia LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Sulawesi Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rio Tinto Technological Resources UK LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rta Holdco 1 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rta Holdco 4 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 31 Mar 2025 (profit £147k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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