Specialist Crafts Limited
Registered name: SPECIALIST CRAFTS LIMITED
Part of The Dryad Education Group Limited groupSpecialist Crafts Limited made £15.1m revenue and £787k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Specialist Crafts Limited’s revenue fell 2% to £15.1m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £787k profit and 72 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale via mail order houses or via internet” and is based in Leicester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leicester, East Midlands
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 2 Sep 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.2m | £11.4m | £15.5m | £15.1m |
| Cost of sales | £11m | £8.2m | £10.9m | £10.5m |
| Gross profit | £4.2m | £3.2m | £4.7m | £4.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.3m | £680k | £1.2m | £1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £591k | £1.1m | £978k |
| Profit after tax | £1m | £499k | £885k | £787k |
| Profit (best available) | £1m | £499k | £885k | £787k |
| Staff costs | £2.2m | £1.9m | £2.5m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 70 | 68 | 66 | 72 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 6.6% | 4.4% | 5.7% | 5.2% |
| Gross margin | 27.5% | 28.4% | 30% | 30.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £217k | £167k | £235k | £210k |
| Profit per employee | £14.4k | £7.3k | £13.4k | £10.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▼2.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▼11.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | — | ▲9.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £130k | £405k | £469k | £690k |
| Net assets | £4m | £4.2m | £4.7m | £5.2m |
| Fixed assets | £305k | £293k | £207k | £221k |
| Current assets | £10.1m | £8.2m | £7.9m | £8.5m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 30.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £210k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.5%
- 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
- ▲11%
- Now £5.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲47%
- Now £690k
- Headcount
- ▲9%
- Now 72
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲7%
- Now £221k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- The Dryad Education Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Dryad Creative Limited75–100%
- Dryad Leicester Limited75–100%
- Specialist Crafts Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Specialist Crafts Leicester 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 £787k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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