Fuel Proof Limited
Registered name: FUEL PROOF LIMITED
Fuel Proof Limited made £9.2m revenue and £935k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Fuel Proof Limited’s revenue fell 14% to £9.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £935k profit and 65 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other tanks, reservoirs and containers of metal” and is based in Heysham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Heysham, North West
- Age
- 26 yrs · since 2000
- 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 and ultimate parent company is Argent Industrial Limited, a company resident in South Africa. The company's financial activities are consolidated into the group accounts prepared by Arge”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.3m | £10.7m | £9.2m |
| Cost of sales | £7.6m | £6.3m | −£5.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.7m | £4.4m | £3.4m |
| Operating profit | £2.4m | £2m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £2.5m | £2.1m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £2m | £1.6m | £935k |
| Profit (best available) | £2m | £1.6m | £935k |
| Staff costs | £3m | £2.8m | — |
| Employees (average) | 74 | 70 | 65 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 16.4% | 14.5% | 10.2% |
| Gross margin | 38.5% | 41.4% | 36.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £167k | £153k | £141k |
| Profit per employee | £27.4k | £22.2k | £14.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼13% | ▼14.5% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼23.2% | ▼39.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5.4% | ▼7.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £995k | £1.1m | — |
| Net assets | £4.9m | £5.4m | — |
| Fixed assets | £998k | £1.5m | — |
| Current assets | £8.2m | £7.2m | — |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.2m | — |
| Deferred income | £363k | £231k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 36.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £141k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 65
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £935k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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