Involvement Limited
Registered name: INVOLVEMENT LIMITED
Part of Involvement Employee Ownership Trustee Limited groupInvolvement Limited made £39.6m revenue and £1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Involvement Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £39.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1m profit and 93 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Banbury; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Banbury, South East
- Age
- 44 yrs · since 1981
- 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 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) | £37.7m | £37m | £39.6m |
| Cost of sales | £25m | £24.4m | £24.9m |
| Gross profit | £12.7m | £12.6m | £14.6m |
| Operating profit | £2.5m | £874k | £1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £2.1m | £269k | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £134k | £1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £134k | £1m |
| Staff costs | £3.7m | £4.2m | £5m |
| Employees (average) | 83 | 86 | 93 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.2% | 0.4% | 2.6% |
| Gross margin | 33.8% | 34.1% | 37% |
| Revenue per employee | £454k | £431k | £425k |
| Profit per employee | £18.9k | £1.6k | £11k |
| Cash conversion | −138.5% | 3.8% | −55.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.8% | ▲6.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼91.4% | ▲660.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.6% | ▲8.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.1m | £984k | £550k |
| Net assets | £9.9m | £9.6m | £9.8m |
| Fixed assets | £7.4m | £9.2m | £8.4m |
| Current assets | £20.2m | £16.7m | £17.6m |
| Debtors | £6m | £5.6m | £6.6m |
| Deferred income | £781k | £501k | £595k |
| Cash from operations | −£3.4m | £32.9k | −£976k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 37%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £425k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £11k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −55.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 21.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.8%
- 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
- ▲3%
- Now £9.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼44%
- Now £550k
- Headcount
- ▲8%
- Now 93
- Deferred income
- ▲19%
- Now £595k
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £8.4m
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
- Involvement Employee Ownership Trustee Limitedultimate parent50–75%
- Involvement Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (5)
- De La Pak LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Involvement Packaging LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Invopak LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kenyons Containers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Uniq Plastic Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
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 £1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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