Affordable Window Systems Limited
Registered name: AFFORDABLE WINDOW SYSTEMS LIMITED
Part of Affordable 21st Century Eot groupAffordable Window Systems Limited made £26.8m revenue and £1.7m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Affordable Window Systems Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £26.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £1.7m profit and 208 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Poulton-Le-Fylde; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Poulton-Le-Fylde, North West
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1992
- 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 immediate controlling party and ultimate parent company is Affordable Aluminium Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 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 | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.3m | £24m | £23.7m | £26.8m |
| Cost of sales | £16m | £17.5m | £17.1m | £19.2m |
| Gross profit | £6.3m | £6.5m | £6.6m | £7.5m |
| Operating profit | £2.8m | £2.3m | £1.7m | £2.2m |
| Profit before tax | £2.8m | £2.3m | £1.7m | £2.2m |
| Profit after tax | £2.2m | £1.9m | £1.2m | £1.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.2m | £1.9m | £1.2m | £1.7m |
| Staff costs | £9.2m | £8.3m | £8m | £8.9m |
| Employees (average) | 280 | 237 | 200 | 208 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 10% | 8% | 5% | 6.3% |
| Gross margin | 28.1% | 27.2% | 27.7% | 28.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £79.7k | £101k | £118k | £129k |
| Profit per employee | £7.9k | £8.1k | £5.9k | £8.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.6% | ▼1.4% | ▲13.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼13.3% | ▼38.4% | ▲42% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼15.4% | ▼15.6% | ▲4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £432k | £520k | £344k | £739k |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £5.5m | £2.7m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.3m | £2.9m | £11.5k | £4m |
| Current assets | £7.6m | £8.2m | £5.5m | £5.4m |
| Debtors | £2.6m | £2.2m | £2.2m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £168k | £265k | £426k | £351k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £129k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 15.1%
- 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
- 5.7%
- 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
- ▲62%
- Now £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲115%
- Now £739k
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 208
- Deferred income
- ▼17%
- Now £351k
- Fixed assets
- ▲35094%
- Now £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
- Affordable 21st Century Eot (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Affordable Aluminium Limited75–100%
- Affordable Window Systems Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Affordable Aluminium Systems LimitedRev. £22.2m · Profit £1.8m
- 21st Century Windows LtdFigures not disclosed
- Affordable 21st Century Eot 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 Mar 2025 (profit £1.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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