Kitchen Civils Limited
Registered name: KITCHEN CIVILS LIMITED
Kitchen Civils Limited made £36.5m revenue and £828k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Kitchen Civils Limited’s revenue grew 15% to £36.5m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £828k profit and 39 employees. The company is classified under “construction of roads and motorways” and is based in Newport; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newport, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2013
- 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 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kitchen Civils (Holdings) Limited. The ultimate controlling party of Kitchen Civils (Holdings) Limited is J R Kitchen.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.6m | £22.6m | £31.7m | £36.5m |
| Cost of sales | £19.5m | £19.9m | £27.2m | £32.6m |
| Gross profit | £3.1m | £2.7m | £4.5m | £3.9m |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.8m | £1.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.8m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £889k | £1.3m | £828k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £889k | £1.3m | £828k |
| Staff costs | £1.4m | £1.3m | £1.7m | £1.9m |
| Employees (average) | 28 | 27 | 34 | 39 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 4.9% | 3.9% | 4.1% | 2.3% |
| Gross margin | 13.6% | 12.1% | 14.3% | 10.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £806k | £838k | £933k | £937k |
| Profit per employee | £39.4k | £32.9k | £38.5k | £21.2k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | −78.5% | −161.9% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲0.2% | ▲40.2% | ▲15.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼19.5% | ▲47.4% | ▼36.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.6% | ▲25.9% | ▲14.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.5m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £1.3m | £1.2m | £1.8m | £2.1m |
| Fixed assets | £446k | £444k | £505k | £534k |
| Current assets | £5.4m | £5.2m | £6.8m | £8.2m |
| Debtors | £3.3m | £3.2m | £1.1m | £406k |
| Deferred income | £714k | £516k | £1.1m | £895k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | −£1.4m | −£1.8m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £937k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £21.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −161.9%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- 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
- ▲17%
- Now £2.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲29%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▲15%
- Now 39
- Deferred income
- ▼21%
- Now £895k
- Fixed assets
- ▲6%
- Now £534k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit £828k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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