Building Design Partnership Limited
Registered name: BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
Part of BDP Holdings Limited groupBuilding Design Partnership Limited made £130m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Building Design Partnership Limited’s revenue fell 13% to £130m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £1.1m profit and 846 employees. The company is classified under “architectural activities” and is based in Manchester; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- Age
- 38 yrs · since 1987
- 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 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £136m | £149m | £130m |
| Operating profit | £10.1m | £10.5m | £4.2m |
| Profit before tax | £9.2m | £9.8m | £3.7m |
| Profit after tax | £5.6m | £6.8m | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £5.6m | £6.8m | £1.1m |
| Employees (average) | 1,303 | 1,328 | 846 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 4.1% | 4.6% | 0.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £104k | £112k | £153k |
| Profit per employee | £4.3k | £5.1k | £1.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.4% | ▼12.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲22.8% | ▼83.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.9% | ▼36.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £153k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.4k
- 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
- ▼36%
- Now 846
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- BDP Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Building Design Partnership Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (12)
- BDP Acoustics LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Advanced Technologies LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Dublin LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Europe LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Landscape LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Lighting LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Mena LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Nominees (Properties and Subsidiary Operations) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Pattern LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Planning Supervisors LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Sport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Whicheloe Macfarlane Partnership LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (2)
- BDP Aesop Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- BDP Employee Benefit Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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