Fact Worldwide Limited
Registered name: FACT WORLDWIDE LIMITED
Part of Global Due Diligence Limited groupFact Worldwide Limited made £19.5m revenue and £3.5m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Fact Worldwide Limited’s revenue fell 16% to £19.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £3.5m profit and 96 employees. The company is classified under “investigation activities” and is based in Twickenham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Twickenham, London
- 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: “Global Due Diligence Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.4m | £23.1m | £19.5m |
| Cost of sales | £8.3m | £10.3m | −£10.5m |
| Gross profit | £10.1m | £12.8m | £9m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £5m |
| Profit before tax | £7.9m | £9.4m | £4.7m |
| Profit after tax | £6.4m | £7.2m | £3.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £6.4m | £7.2m | £3.5m |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £4.4m | — |
| Employees (average) | 45 | 80 | 96 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 34.6% | 31% | 18.2% |
| Gross margin | 54.9% | 55.4% | 46.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £410k | £289k | £203k |
| Profit per employee | £142k | £89.6k | £37k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲25.4% | ▼15.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲12.3% | ▼50.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲77.8% | ▲20% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £5.5m | £8.3m | — |
| Net assets | £8.4m | £15.6m | — |
| Fixed assets | £340k | £1.2m | — |
| Current assets | £11.6m | £16.4m | — |
| Debtors | £4.2m | £5.7m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 18.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 46.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £203k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £37k
- 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
- ▲20%
- Now 96
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Global Due Diligence Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Fact Worldwide Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Safeworld LimitedRev. — · Profit −£36.5k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £3.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 17 Oct 2026
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