Dargan Child Care Limited
Registered name: DARGAN CHILD CARE LIMITED
Part of Melrose Row Ltd groupDargan Child Care Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 30 Sep 2025 show net assets of -£215k and 42 employees.
Dargan Child Care Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 showed net assets of −£215k and 42 employees. The company is classified under “other education” and is based in Cheltenham; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cheltenham, South West
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2001
- 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: “Toots North Opco Limited”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Dargan Child Care Limited’s accounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 42
- Net assets
- −£215k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 28 Mar 2025 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 38 | 38 | 42 | 41 | 42 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲10.5% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £201k | £145k | £218k | £146k | £133k |
| Net assets | £70.9k | £168k | £292k | −£357k | −£215k |
| Fixed assets | £776k | £525k | £606k | £34.9k | £610k |
| Current assets | £202k | £147k | £221k | £150k | £153k |
| Debtors | £1.5k | £0 | £988 | £936 | £20k |
| Deferred income | — | — | — | £55.7k | £95.6k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
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 −£215k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £133k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 42
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £95.6k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £610k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Melrose Row Ltdultimate parent50–75%
- Albany Hill Topco Limited75–100%
- Albany Hill Midco Limited75–100%
- Albany Hill Limited75–100%
- Albany Hill North Opco Limited75–100%
- Dargan Child Care Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (8)
- Cheeky Monkeys Day Nursery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lesley's Private Day Nursery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Meades & Wiggan Childcare LtdFigures not disclosed
- Meadows Failsworth LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Moorside Stars Nursery LtdFigures not disclosed
- Pitter Patters LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Saddleworth Nursery LtdFigures not disclosed
- Simpkin LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FilletedAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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