Cherry Pick Talent Ltd.
Registered name: CHERRY PICK TALENT LTD.
Part of Cherry Pick Talent Holdings Ltd groupCherry Pick Talent Ltd. made £24.4m revenue and £452k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Cherry Pick Talent Ltd.’s revenue was £24.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £452k profit and 10 employees. The company is classified under “support activities to performing arts” and is based in Brentwood; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Brentwood, East of England
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- 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 controlling party is Cherry Pick Talent Holdings Limited, a company registered in England and Wales at the registered office, Ground Floor, Kings House, 101-135 Kings Road, Brentwood, Essex, Engla”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Feb 2022 | 28 Feb 2023 | 29 Feb 2024 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | 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 | £13.6m | £16m | £24.4m |
| Cost of sales | — | £6.6m | £7.2m | £10.1m | £19.8m |
| Gross profit | — | £5.9m | £6.4m | £5.9m | £4.7m |
| Operating profit | — | £5.2m | £4.8m | £3.4m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | — | £5.3m | £4.7m | £3.5m | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | — | £4.2m | £3.5m | £2.6m | £452k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £4.2m | £3.5m | £2.6m | £452k |
| Staff costs | — | £575k | £1.1m | £1.4m | £1.2m |
| Employees (average) | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | — | 34% | 26% | 16.4% | 1.8% |
| Gross margin | — | 47% | 47.1% | 36.8% | 19.1% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £1.6m | £1.7m | £1.3m | £2.4m |
| Profit per employee | — | £531k | £442k | £218k | £45.2k |
| Cash conversion | — | −82.2% | −99.8% | −128.8% | 50.2% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲8.9% | — | — |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼16.8% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲100% | 0% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £4.8m | £922k | £1.4m | £386k |
| Net assets | £4.1m | £8.4m | £7.6m | £10.2m | £10.7m |
| Fixed assets | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1m |
| Current assets | £4m | £9.6m | £9.5m | £18m | £17.5m |
| Debtors | £612k | £1.4m | £2.2m | £4.2m | £4.9m |
| Deferred income | — | £604k | £807k | £2.4m | £1.4m |
| Cash from operations | — | −£4.3m | −£4.7m | −£4.4m | £664k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 19.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £2.4m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £45.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- 50.2%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 20.2%
- 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 £10.7m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £386k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 10
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.4m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cherry Pick Talent Holdings Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Cherry Pick Talent Ltd.this 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 Dec 2025 (profit £452k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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