Peterborough Limited
Registered name: PETERBOROUGH LIMITED
Part of Peterborough City Council groupPeterborough Limited made £31.7m revenue and £18k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Peterborough Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £31.7m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £18k profit. The company is classified under “collection of non-hazardous waste” and is based in Peterborough; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Peterborough
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2018
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
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) | £25.9m | £29.3m | £31.7m |
| Cost of sales | −£21.4m | −£24.9m | −£27m |
| Gross profit | £4.4m | £4.5m | £4.7m |
| Operating profit | £18.4k | £222k | £78.3k |
| Profit before tax | £5k | £231k | £23.8k |
| Profit after tax | £2.8k | £156k | £18k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.8k | £156k | £18k |
| Employees (average) | — | — | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0% | 0.5% | 0.1% |
| Gross margin | 17.1% | 15.2% | 14.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.4% | ▲8.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲5497% | ▼88.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 14.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
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- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
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- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
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- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- 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
Ownership chain
- Peterborough City Council (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Peterborough Limitedthis 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).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £18k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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