Pentewan Sands,limited
Registered name: PENTEWAN SANDS,LIMITED
Pentewan Sands,limited made £6.2m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Pentewan Sands,limited’s revenue fell 5% to £6.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.1m profit and 75 employees. The company is classified under “holiday centres and villages” and is based in Cornwall; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cornwall, South West
- Age
- 81 yrs · since 1945
- 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 company was controlled throughout the current and previous period by the directors.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £6.1m | £6.6m | £6.2m |
| Cost of sales | £3.6m | £3.7m | £3.9m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2.9m | £2.4m |
| Operating profit | £1.8m | £2m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.8m | £2m | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £1.5m | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £1.8m | £1.7m | £1.6m |
| Employees (average) | 103 | 85 | 75 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 19.1% | 22.6% | 17.4% |
| Gross margin | 41.4% | 44.2% | 38% |
| Revenue per employee | £59k | £77.2k | £83.1k |
| Profit per employee | £11.3k | £17.5k | £14.5k |
| Cash conversion | −99.8% | −81.1% | −152.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.9% | ▼5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲27.5% | ▼26.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼17.5% | ▼11.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.6m | £3m | £3.6m |
| Net assets | £10.9m | £12.4m | £13.5m |
| Fixed assets | £10.1m | £12.5m | £12.9m |
| Current assets | £5.3m | £3.6m | £4.2m |
| Debtors | £392k | £135k | £147k |
| Deferred income | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.5m |
| Cash from operations | −£1.8m | −£1.6m | −£2.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 17.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 38%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £83.1k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −152.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 207.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 23.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- 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
- ▲9%
- Now £13.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲17%
- Now £3.6m
- Headcount
- ▼12%
- Now 75
- Deferred income
- ▲19%
- Now £1.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▲3%
- Now £12.9m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Minority corporate shareholders
- JTT Management Co. NO.2 Ltd 25–50%
- JTT Management Co. NO.1 Ltd 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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