Barnfield Engineering Services Limited
Registered name: BARNFIELD ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED
Part of C&R Engineering Limited groupBarnfield Engineering Services Limited made £21.4m revenue and £1.5m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Barnfield Engineering Services Limited’s revenue grew 9% to £21.4m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £1.5m profit and 95 employees. The company is classified under “other construction installation” and is based in Newbury; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Newbury, South East
- Age
- 26 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent undertaking is”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £19.7m | £21.4m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £12.6m | £17.4m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £7.1m | £4m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £5.5m | £1.9m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £5.5m | £2m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £4.1m | £1.5m |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £4.1m | £1.5m |
| Staff costs | — | — | £3.7m | £5m |
| Employees (average) | 47 | 67 | 86 | 95 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 21% | 7% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 36.1% | 18.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £229k | £225k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £48k | £15.7k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | −73% | −161.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲8.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼63.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲42.5% | ▲28.4% | ▲10.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.8m | £1.9m | £3.1m | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £3m | £5m | £7.9m | £7.6m |
| Fixed assets | £774k | £1.4m | £1.7m | £2m |
| Current assets | £4.4m | £6.3m | £10.2m | £10.1m |
| Debtors | £1.6m | £2.4m | £5.4m | £4.9m |
| Deferred income | — | — | £53.8k | £33.7k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | −£4m | −£3.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 18.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £225k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −161.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 9.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 23.1%
- 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
- ▼3%
- Now £7.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼26%
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- ▲10%
- Now 95
- Deferred income
- ▼37%
- Now £33.7k
- Fixed assets
- ▲20%
- Now £2m
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
- C&R Engineering Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Barnfield Engineering Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- M. T. Hayward 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit £1.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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