Palmer & Howells Ltd.
Registered name: PALMER & HOWELLS LTD.
Part of Ampa Holdings LLP groupPalmer & Howells Ltd. does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 30 Sep 2025 show net assets of £300k and 119 employees.
Palmer & Howells Ltd. did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 showed net assets of £300k and 119 employees. The company is classified under “event catering activities” and is based in Worcester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Worcester, West Midlands
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent company is HC 1278 Limited and its registered office is Granta Lodge, 71 Graham Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, United Kingdom, WR14 2JS.”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Palmer & Howells Ltd.’s accounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 119
- Net assets
- £300k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 243 | 193 | 194 | 119 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼20.6% | ▲0.5% | ▼38.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.3k | £9.3k | £295 | £80.8k |
| Net assets | £312k | £191k | £270k | £300k |
| Fixed assets | £308k | £80.8k | £9.5k | £5.5k |
| Current assets | £2m | £1.6m | £1.6m | £837k |
| Debtors | £1.3m | £809k | £845k | £638k |
| Deferred income | £419k | £103k | £199k | £254k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
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
- ▲11%
- Now £300k
- Cash at bank
- ▲27305%
- Now £80.8k
- Headcount
- ▼39%
- Now 119
- Deferred income
- ▲28%
- Now £254k
- Fixed assets
- ▼42%
- Now £5.5k
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
- Ampa Holdings LLPultimate parent75–100%
- Ampa Trust Corporation Limited75–100%
- Aspens-Services (Holdings) Limited75–100%
- Aspens-Services Limited75–100%
- HC 1278 Limited75–100%
- Palmer & Howells Ltd.this 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 30 Sep 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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