Windmill Care Limited
Registered name: WINDMILL CARE LIMITED
Part of Windmill Care Group Limited groupWindmill Care Limited made £6.5m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Windmill Care Limited’s revenue grew 10% to £6.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £1.1m profit and 156 employees. The company is classified under “residential care activities for the elderly and disabled” and is based in Bristol; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Bristol, South West
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1998
- 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 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.4m | £5.9m | £6.5m |
| Cost of sales | £3.3m | £3.6m | £3.8m |
| Gross profit | £2m | £2.4m | £2.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.7m | £1.6m | £1.9m |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £1.1m | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £768k | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £768k | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2.9m | £3.3m |
| Employees (average) | 127 | 146 | 156 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 20.6% | 12.9% | 16.9% |
| Gross margin | 37.7% | 39.7% | 41.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £42.2k | £40.6k | £42k |
| Profit per employee | £8.7k | £5.3k | £7.1k |
| Cash conversion | −139.5% | −85% | −174.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.8% | ▲10.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼30.4% | ▲44.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15% | ▲6.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £671k | £283k | £508k |
| Net assets | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.6m |
| Fixed assets | £6.5m | £6.4m | £6.3m |
| Current assets | £4.9m | £4.9m | £3.8m |
| Debtors | £280k | £227k | £194k |
| Deferred income | £124k | £118k | £154k |
| Cash from operations | −£2.4m | −£1.4m | −£3.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 16.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £42k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −174.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 95.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £2.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲80%
- Now £508k
- Headcount
- ▲7%
- Now 156
- Deferred income
- ▲31%
- Now £154k
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £6.3m
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
- Windmill Care Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Windmill Care 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 2024 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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