Crow Wood Leisure Limited
Registered name: CROW WOOD LEISURE LIMITED
Part of Andrew Brown Leisure Limited groupCrow Wood Leisure Limited made £19.2m revenue and £179k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025. read from filing text
Crow Wood Leisure Limited’s revenue grew 13% to £19.2m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £179k profit and 408 employees. The company is classified under “hotels and similar accommodation” and is based in Burnley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burnley, 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 company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Andrew Brown Leisure Limited, a company incorporated in England.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £16.2m | £17m | £19.2m |
| Cost of sales | £9.4m | £9.7m | £10.6m |
| Gross profit | £6.8m | £7.2m | £8.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £1.2m | £281k |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £1.2m | £279k |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £917k | £179k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £917k | £179k |
| Staff costs | £7.2m | £7.8m | £9.2m |
| Employees (average) | 375 | 366 | 408 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 6.2% | 5.4% | 0.9% |
| Gross margin | 41.9% | 42.5% | 44.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £43.1k | £46.3k | £47k |
| Profit per employee | £2.7k | £2.5k | £440 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲4.8% | ▲13.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼9.1% | ▼80.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼2.4% | ▲11.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £290k | £63.1k | £79.4k |
| Net assets | £3.3m | £4.2m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £3.5m | £8.1m | £12m |
| Current assets | £4.7m | £2m | £779k |
| Debtors | £6k | £9.3k | £13.1k |
| Deferred income | £3.3m | £2.9m | £3.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 44.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £47k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £440
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 62.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 19%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲26%
- Now £79.4k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 408
- Deferred income
- ▲24%
- Now £3.6m
- Fixed assets
- ▲48%
- Now £12m
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
- Andrew Brown Leisure Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Crow Wood Leisure 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit £179k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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