Provu Communications Ltd
Registered name: PROVU COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Part of Provu Group Limited groupProvu Communications Ltd made £14.9m revenue and £947k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Provu Communications Ltd’s revenue grew 7% to £14.9m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £947k profit and 25 employees. The company is classified under “other telecommunications activities” and is based in Milnsbridge; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Milnsbridge, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- 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 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.7m | £13.6m | £13.9m | £14.9m |
| Cost of sales | £11.1m | £11.3m | £11.5m | — |
| Gross profit | £2.6m | £2.3m | £2.4m | — |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £1.2m | −£160k | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £1m | −£447k | £947k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £1m | −£447k | £947k |
| Staff costs | £970k | £964k | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 22 | 24 | 24 | 25 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.5% | 7.5% | −3.2% | 6.4% |
| Gross margin | 19% | 17.2% | 17.2% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £621k | £567k | £579k | £594k |
| Profit per employee | £52.8k | £42.3k | −£18.6k | £37.9k |
| Cash conversion | 82.5% | 44.2% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼0.4% | ▲2.1% | ▲6.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼12.5% | ▼144% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9.1% | 0% | ▲4.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.4m | £1.2m | £1.3m | £1m |
| Net assets | £3.6m | £4.1m | £2.5m | £3.2m |
| Fixed assets | £44k | £34.8k | £21.3k | £19.7k |
| Current assets | £5m | £5.8m | £4.4m | £5.8m |
| Debtors | £1.1m | £1.4m | £1.7m | £2m |
| Deferred income | £163k | £117k | £179k | £140k |
| Cash from operations | £1.1m | £551k | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £594k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £37.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.6%
- 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
- ▲30%
- Now £3.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼17%
- Now £1m
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 25
- Deferred income
- ▼22%
- Now £140k
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £19.7k
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
- Provu Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Provu Communications Ltdthis 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).
Similar profitable businesses
- Mis Blue Light Services Group LimitedNorthwich · Other telecommunications activities
- Revenue
- £14.8m
- Profit
- £389k
- Staff
- —
- A-2-Sea Solutions LimitedRomsey · Other telecommunications activities
- Revenue
- £15.2m
- Profit
- £2.7m
- Staff
- 41
- Arrow Business Communications (Scotland) LimitedGlasgow · Other telecommunications activities
- Revenue
- £14.5m
- Profit
- £4.3m
- Staff
- 48
- The Networking People (TNP) LimitedLancaster · Other telecommunications activities
- Revenue
- £15.5m
- Profit
- £757k
- Staff
- 54
- Pure IP LimitedLondon · Other telecommunications activities
- Revenue
- £14.2m
- Profit
- £529k
- Staff
- 49
- (Aq) LimitedLeeds · Other telecommunications activities
- Revenue
- £15.7m
- Profit
- £1.2m
- Staff
- 64
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £947k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Contains public sector information from Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Companies House, © Crown copyright. View the licence.