Southern Brave Limited
Registered name: SOUTHERN BRAVE LIMITED
Part of Hampshire Sport & Leisure Holdings Limited groupSouthern Brave Limited made £7.8m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Southern Brave Limited’s revenue grew 256% to £7.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1m profit and 11 employees. The company is classified under “other sports activities” and is based in Southampton; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Southampton, South East
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- 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 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.1m | £2.2m | £7.8m |
| Cost of sales | −£2m | −£2.2m | −£6.2m |
| Gross profit | £63k | £29.9k | £1.6m |
| Operating profit | £51.5k | £14k | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £51.5k | £14k | £1.4m |
| Profit after tax | £29.9k | £10.5k | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £29.9k | £10.5k | £1m |
| Employees (average) | 13 | 11 | 11 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.4% | 0.5% | 13.1% |
| Gross margin | 3% | 1.4% | 20.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £162k | £199k | £706k |
| Profit per employee | £2.3k | £954 | £92.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3.5% | ▲255.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼64.8% | ▲9584% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼15.4% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 13.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £706k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £92.4k
- 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
- 0%
- Now 11
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hampshire Sport & Leisure Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hampshire Cricket Company Limited50–75%
- Southern Brave 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).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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