SLW Limited
Registered name: SLW LIMITED
Part of SLW (Holdings) Limited groupSLW Limited made £8.5m revenue and £780k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
SLW Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £8.5m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £780k profit and 242 employees. The company is classified under “residential care activities for the elderly and disabled” and is based in Sunderland; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sunderland, North East
- Age
- 31 yrs · since 1995
- 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 parent entity is SLW (Holdings) Limited, which is the most senior parent for which publically consolidated financial statements are produced which include the results of SLW Limited. SLW ”
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) | £6.1m | £7.3m | £8m | £8.5m |
| Cost of sales | £4.1m | £4.6m | £5m | £5.8m |
| Gross profit | £1.9m | £2.7m | £2.9m | £2.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £1.7m | £1.4m | £927k |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1.3m | £876k |
| Profit after tax | £947k | £1.3m | £1.2m | £780k |
| Profit (best available) | £947k | £1.3m | £1.2m | £780k |
| Staff costs | £4m | £4.4m | £5.3m | £6.1m |
| Employees (average) | 174 | 199 | 221 | 242 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 15.6% | 18.3% | 14.5% | 9.2% |
| Gross margin | 31.7% | 37.5% | 36.9% | 32.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £34.9k | £36.8k | £36.1k | £35.2k |
| Profit per employee | £5.4k | £6.7k | £5.2k | £3.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲20.5% | ▲9% | ▲6.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲41.4% | ▼13.5% | ▼32.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲14.4% | ▲11.1% | ▲9.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £3.4m | £2.2m | £1.3m |
| Net assets | £7.3m | £8.4m | £9.5m | £10.1m |
| Fixed assets | £6.7m | £6.7m | £6.6m | £6.5m |
| Current assets | £5.3m | £6.4m | £7.2m | £7.6m |
| Debtors | £187k | £341k | £253k | £360k |
| Deferred income | £284k | £413k | £95.9k | £225k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 32.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £35.2k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 76.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.2%
- 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
- ▲7%
- Now £10.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼43%
- Now £1.3m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 242
- Deferred income
- ▲135%
- Now £225k
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £6.5m
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
- SLW (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- SLW 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 Mar 2025 (profit £780k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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