Swoop Travel Limited
Registered name: SWOOP TRAVEL LIMITED
Swoop Travel Limited made £36.1m revenue and £502k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Swoop Travel Limited’s revenue grew 21% to £36.1m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £502k profit. The company is classified under “tour operator activities” and is based in Bristol; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bristol, South West
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £24.1m | £29.8m | £36.1m |
| Cost of sales | £19m | £23.4m | −£27.8m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £6.3m | £8.3m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.1m | £674k |
| Profit before tax | £1.3m | £1.1m | £693k |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £938k | £502k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £938k | £502k |
| Employees (average) | 46 | 57 | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 5.2% | 3.1% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 21.3% | 21.3% | 23.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £524k | £522k | — |
| Profit per employee | £27k | £16.5k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲23.5% | ▲21.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼24.6% | ▼46.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲23.9% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £1.8m | — |
| Net assets | −£374k | £564k | — |
| Fixed assets | £152k | £138k | — |
| Current assets | £6.9m | £7.7m | — |
| Debtors | £909k | £1m | — |
| Deferred income | £6.2m | £6.2m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Antarctica Guide LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £502k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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