Thursfields Legal Limited
Registered name: THURSFIELDS LEGAL LIMITED
Part of Knights Group Holdings PLC groupThursfields Legal Limited made £4.1m revenue and £936k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Thursfields Legal Limited’s revenue fell 63% to £4.1m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £936k profit and 48 employees. The company is classified under “dormant company” and is based in Newcastle-Under-Lyme; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newcastle-Under-Lyme, West Midlands
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.9m | £11.2m | £4.1m |
| Operating profit | — | £3.2m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £2.8m | £3.3m | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £2.2m | £2.4m | £936k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.2m | £2.4m | £936k |
| Staff costs | £5.9m | £5.9m | — |
| Employees (average) | 117 | 117 | 48 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 20.7% | 21.7% | 22.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £92.7k | £96k | £86.2k |
| Profit per employee | £19.2k | £20.9k | £19.5k |
| Cash conversion | — | 77.7% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.5% | ▼63.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲8.5% | ▼61.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼59% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.6m | £3.4m | — |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £4.7m | — |
| Fixed assets | £765k | £778k | — |
| Current assets | £5.9m | £6.1m | — |
| Debtors | £474k | £519k | — |
| Cash from operations | £2.9m | £2.5m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 22.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £86.2k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £19.5k
- 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
- ▼59%
- Now 48
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Knights Group Holdings PLCultimate parent75–100%
- Knights Professional Services Limited75–100%
- Thursfields Legal Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (16)
- Asb Law LLPFigures not disclosed
- Brampton Strategic Land LimitedFigures not disclosed
- CLM Trust Corporation LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Darbys Solicitors LLPFigures not disclosed
- K & S (Nominees) LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- K & S Directors LimitedFigures not disclosed
- K & S Secretaries LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- K & S Trust Corporation LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Keebles LLPFigures not disclosed
- Knights Financial Planning LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Langleys Solicitors LLPFigures not disclosed
- Le Gros LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Mundays LLPFigures not disclosed
- Shulmans LLPFigures not disclosed
- THP 1759 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Turner Parkinson LLPFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £936k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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