Alum Care Limited
Registered name: ALUM CARE LIMITED
Part of The Buckinghamshire Group Limited groupAlum Care Limited made £8.4m revenue and £1.5m profit in the year to 31 May 2025. read from filing text
Alum Care Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £8.4m in the year to 31 May 2025, with £1.5m profit and 104 employees. The company is classified under “other human health activities” and is based in Poole; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Poole, South West
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2004
- 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 ultimate parent company is The Buckinghamshire Group Limited, whose registered office is 31/33 Commercial Road, Poole, Dorset, BH14 0HU.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit & lossread from filing text | Profit & lossread from filing text | Profit & lossread from filing text | Profit & lossread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.3m | £7m | £8m | £8.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.5m | £1.9m | £2.6m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.9m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Staff costs | — | £3.5m | £4m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 69 | 79 | 95 | 104 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 21.4% | 18.6% | 16.3% | 18.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £76.4k | £88.5k | £83.8k | £80.6k |
| Profit per employee | £16.4k | £16.4k | £13.7k | £14.8k |
| Cash conversion | −9.4% | 294% | 43.7% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲32.7% | ▲13.9% | ▲5.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲15% | ▲0% | ▲18.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.5% | ▲20.3% | ▲9.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £65.2k | £9.6k | £3.3m | £626k |
| Net assets | £5.6m | £6.9m | £8.2m | £9.7m |
| Fixed assets | £6.7m | £6.8m | £6.8m | £6.8m |
| Current assets | £775k | £6.5m | £12.5m | £14.5m |
| Debtors | £187k | £325k | £379k | £542k |
| Deferred income | £137k | £294k | £223k | £265k |
| Cash from operations | −£119k | £4.3m | £817k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 18.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £80.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 80.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.5%
- 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 £9.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▼81%
- Now £626k
- Headcount
- ▲9%
- Now 104
- Deferred income
- ▲19%
- Now £265k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £6.8m
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
- The Buckinghamshire Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Alum Care 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 31 May 2025 (profit £1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.