Calder Conferences Limited
Registered name: CALDER CONFERENCES LIMITED
Part of Depho Estates Limited groupCalder Conferences Limited made £5.4m profit in the year to 28 Feb 2025 (revenue not disclosed).
Calder Conferences Limited reported £5.4m profit in the year to 28 Feb 2025, down 42% on the year before; its revenue was not disclosed. It had 48 employees. The company is classified under “hotels and similar accommodation” and is based in Leeds; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- 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 Depho Estates Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, whose registered office is situated at Unit 4 Woodside Court, Clayton Wood Rise, Leeds, LS16 6RF. Grou”
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 | 28 Feb 2022 | 28 Feb 2023 | 28 Feb 2024 | 28 Feb 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Profit only |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £23.7m | £41.2m | £21.3m | — |
| Cost of sales | £5.8m | £27.6m | £3.9m | — |
| Gross profit | £17.9m | £13.6m | £17.4m | — |
| Operating profit | £6.4m | £4.6m | £10.5m | — |
| Profit before tax | £6.4m | £4.7m | £10.8m | £5.4m |
| Profit after tax | £3.9m | £3.5m | £9.3m | £5.4m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.9m | £3.5m | £9.3m | £5.4m |
| Staff costs | £3.8m | £5.6m | £2.8m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 41 | 44 | 50 | 48 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 16.6% | 8.5% | 43.7% | — |
| Gross margin | 75.6% | 33% | 81.7% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £577k | £937k | £427k | — |
| Profit per employee | £95.6k | £79.8k | £187k | £113k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲74.3% | ▼48.3% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼10.4% | ▲165.6% | ▼41.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲7.3% | ▲13.6% | ▼4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £9.9m | £12.2m | £12.2m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £5.2m | £5.2m | £5.4m | £5.8m |
| Fixed assets | £14.7k | £56.4k | £45k | £36k |
| Current assets | £15.8m | £32.6m | £15.6m | £9.8m |
| Debtors | £4.2m | £9.2m | £2.3m | £664k |
| Deferred income | £7.5m | £19.5m | £8.1m | £3.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
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
- £113k
- 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
- ▲8%
- Now £5.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼84%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▼4%
- Now 48
- Deferred income
- ▼56%
- Now £3.6m
- Fixed assets
- ▼20%
- Now £36k
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
- Depho Estates Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Calder Conferences Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Alne LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Calder Conferences (Em) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Calder Conferences Accommodation LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Calder World of Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- World of Travel 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 28 Feb 2025 (profit £5.4m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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