Nick Brookes Recycling Limited
Registered name: NICK BROOKES RECYCLING LIMITED
Part of Nick Brookes Group Limited groupNick Brookes Recycling Limited made £12.5m revenue and a £227k loss in the year to 31 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Nick Brookes Recycling Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £12.5m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with a loss of £227k and 96 employees. The company is classified under “recovery of sorted materials” and is based in Green Lane Wardle NR Nantwich; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Green Lane Wardle NR Nantwich, North West
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 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) | £12.5m | £12.8m | £13.4m | £12.5m |
| Cost of sales | £9.5m | £9.5m | £10.8m | £9.8m |
| Gross profit | £3m | £3.2m | £2.6m | £2.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £1.2m | −£892 | £34.5k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £1.1m | −£185k | −£157k |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £970k | −£308k | −£227k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £970k | −£308k | −£227k |
| Staff costs | £3.4m | £3.3m | £3.6m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 93 | 94 | 98 | 96 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.3% | 7.6% | −2.3% | −1.8% |
| Gross margin | 23.7% | 25.3% | 19.5% | 21.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £135k | £136k | £137k | £130k |
| Profit per employee | £11.1k | £10.3k | −£3.1k | −£2.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲1.9% | ▲5% | ▼7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼6% | ▼131.7% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.1% | ▲4.3% | ▼2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Net assets | £4.5m | £3.6m | £3.3m | £2.9m |
| Fixed assets | £8.1m | £7.5m | £7.2m | £6.8m |
| Current assets | £3.7m | £3.1m | £3.1m | £4.1m |
| Debtors | £1.8m | £2.1m | £1.5m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £76k | £64.4k | £55k | £45.8k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 21.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £130k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 54.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.5%
- 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
- ▼13%
- Now £2.9m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 96
- Deferred income
- ▼17%
- Now £45.8k
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £6.8m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Nick Brookes Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Nick Brookes Recycling Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (6)
- Brookes Regeneration LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Envirocare (NW) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Evergreen Environmental Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hadley Estates Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nick Brookes Concrete LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nick Brookes Demolition LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Similar profitable businesses
- Tes-Amm (Europe) Ltd.Irvine · Recovery of sorted materials
- Revenue
- £12m
- Profit
- £4.4m
- Staff
- 61
- Envirofuel (SRF) LtdFleetwood · Recovery of sorted materials
- Revenue
- £13.1m
- Profit
- £160k
- Staff
- 25
- Ravago Manufacturing UK LimitedBolton · Recovery of sorted materials
- Revenue
- £13.3m
- Profit
- £1.7m
- Staff
- 47
- Aw Jenkinson (Woodwaste) LimitedBo'ness · Recovery of sorted materials
- Revenue
- £11.2m
- Profit
- £279k
- Staff
- 36
- Roydon Resource Recovery LtdManchester · Recovery of sorted materials
- Revenue
- £14.3m
- Profit
- £2.5m
- Staff
- 53
- Northwood Recycling LimitedStockport · Recovery of sorted materials
- Revenue
- £14.5m
- Profit
- £353k
- Staff
- 9
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Aug 2025 (profit −£227k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.