Learning Resources Limited
Registered name: LEARNING RESOURCES LIMITED
Learning Resources Limited made £22m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Learning Resources Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £22m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.1m profit and 47 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments)” and is based in Godalming; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Godalming, South East
- Age
- 31 yrs · since 1994
- 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 immediate and ultimate parent company is LR-UK, Inc. a company incorporated and registered in the United States of America.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £20.3m | £22m |
| Cost of sales | £9.9m | £10.6m |
| Gross profit | £10.4m | £11.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £910k | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £910k | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £3.1m |
| Employees (average) | 49 | 47 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 4.5% | 5% |
| Gross margin | 51.1% | 51.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £414k | £469k |
| Profit per employee | £18.6k | £23.6k |
| Cash conversion | −39.7% | −226.5% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲21.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £3.9m |
| Net assets | £7.7m | £7.7m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £960k |
| Current assets | £11.4m | £12.9m |
| Debtors | £5.1m | £4.7m |
| Deferred income | £2.5m | £2.3m |
| Cash from operations | −£489k | −£3.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 51.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £469k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £23.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −226.5%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 10.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21.3%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £7.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲90%
- Now £3.9m
- Headcount
- ▼4%
- Now 47
- Deferred income
- ▼10%
- Now £2.3m
- Fixed assets
- ▼9%
- Now £960k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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