South Wales Sports Ground Contractors Limited
Registered name: SOUTH WALES SPORTS GROUND CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Part of MCD Organisation Holdings Limited groupSouth Wales Sports Ground Contractors Limited made £15.1m revenue and £331k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
South Wales Sports Ground Contractors Limited’s revenue fell 7% to £15.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £331k profit and 75 employees. The company is classified under “construction of other civil engineering projects” and is based in Caldicot; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Caldicot, Wales
- Age
- 61 yrs · since 1964
- 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's ultimate parent company is MCD Organisation Holdings Limited, a company registered in England & Wales, which owns 100% of the allocated share capital of the company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.7m | £16.2m | £15.1m |
| Cost of sales | £11.6m | £12.6m | £12m |
| Gross profit | £3.1m | £3.6m | £3.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £1.1m | £435k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £1.2m | £449k |
| Profit after tax | £876k | £873k | £331k |
| Profit (best available) | £876k | £873k | £331k |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £3.3m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 70 | 76 | 75 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6% | 5.4% | 2.2% |
| Gross margin | 21.2% | 22.1% | 20.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £209k | £213k | £201k |
| Profit per employee | £12.5k | £11.5k | £4.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.7% | ▼6.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼0.4% | ▼62.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.6% | ▼1.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £1.9m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £3.5m | £4.4m | £4.5m |
| Fixed assets | £3.7m | £4.2m | £4.6m |
| Debtors | £2.8m | £1.2m | £501k |
| Deferred income | £1m | £738k | £202k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £201k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 30.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 3.3%
- 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
- ▲2%
- Now £4.5m
- Cash at bank
- ▼22%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 75
- Deferred income
- ▼73%
- Now £202k
- Fixed assets
- ▲11%
- Now £4.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- MCD Organisation Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- South Wales Sports Ground Contractors 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 FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £331k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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