Osea Road Camp Sites Limited
Registered name: OSEA ROAD CAMP SITES LIMITED
Osea Road Camp Sites Limited made £7.1m revenue and a £760k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Osea Road Camp Sites Limited’s revenue fell 21% to £7.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £760k and 78 employees. The company is classified under “recreational vehicle parks, trailer parks and camping grounds” and is based in Maldon; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Maldon, East of England
- Age
- 70 yrs · since 1955
- 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 ultimate controlling party is Mrs S Robinson by virtue of her shareholding.”
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&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7m | £9m | £7.1m |
| Cost of sales | £3.8m | £4.9m | £4m |
| Gross profit | £3.2m | £4.1m | £3.1m |
| Operating profit | £870k | £1.1m | −£481k |
| Profit before tax | £753k | £831k | −£828k |
| Profit after tax | £565k | £581k | −£760k |
| Profit (best available) | £565k | £581k | −£760k |
| Staff costs | £1.4m | £1.7m | £2.1m |
| Employees (average) | 55 | 55 | 78 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8% | 6.5% | −10.7% |
| Gross margin | 46% | 45.7% | 43.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £128k | £164k | £91k |
| Profit per employee | £10.3k | £10.6k | −£9.7k |
| Cash conversion | −161.5% | −118.9% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲27.9% | ▼21.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲2.7% | ▼230.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲41.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £541k | £121k | £196k |
| Net assets | £13.7m | £14m | £12.7m |
| Fixed assets | £18m | £18.2m | £18.7m |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £3.5m | £1.7m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £1.8m | £443k |
| Deferred income | £2.5m | £1.7m | £609k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.4m | −£1.3m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −10.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £91k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£9.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 263.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 8.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 6.2%
- 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
- ▼9%
- Now £12.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲62%
- Now £196k
- Headcount
- ▲42%
- Now 78
- Deferred income
- ▼64%
- Now £609k
- Fixed assets
- ▲3%
- Now £18.7m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£760k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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