Lakeside Energy From Waste Limited
Registered name: LAKESIDE ENERGY FROM WASTE LIMITED
Part of Lakeside Energy From Waste Holdings Limited groupLakeside Energy From Waste Limited made £70m revenue and £29.6m profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Lakeside Energy From Waste Limited’s revenue fell 43% to £70m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £29.6m profit and 47 employees. The company is classified under “treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste” and is based in Wallingford; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wallingford, South East
- 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 parent company and the smallest and largest group to consolidate these financial statements is Lakeside Energy From Waste Holdings Limited. Copies of the Lakeside Energy From Waste Holdings Limite”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £123m | £70m |
| Cost of sales | £47.7m | £19.1m |
| Gross profit | £75.7m | £50.9m |
| Operating profit | £68.2m | £43m |
| Profit before tax | £64.9m | £39.9m |
| Profit after tax | £43.3m | £29.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £43.3m | £29.6m |
| Staff costs | — | £4m |
| Employees (average) | 47 | 47 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 35.1% | 42.3% |
| Gross margin | 61.3% | 72.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.6m | £1.5m |
| Profit per employee | £921k | £630k |
| Cash conversion | −113.9% | −106.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼43.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼31.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £35.1m | £23.2m |
| Net assets | £46m | £45.7m |
| Fixed assets | £72.1m | £69.2m |
| Current assets | £43.2m | £30.8m |
| Debtors | £2.7m | £4.2m |
| Deferred income | £2.5m | £630k |
| Cash from operations | −£77.7m | −£45.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 42.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 72.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £1.5m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £630k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −106.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 98.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6%
- 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 £45.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼34%
- Now £23.2m
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 47
- Deferred income
- ▼74%
- Now £630k
- Fixed assets
- ▼4%
- Now £69.2m
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
- Lakeside Energy From Waste Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Lakeside Energy From Waste 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 Sep 2025 (profit £29.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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