Botany Aviation Ltd.
Registered name: BOTANY AVIATION LTD.
Part of Acepark Ltd groupBotany Aviation Ltd. made £845k revenue and a £118k loss in the year to 31 Jan 2025. read from filing text
Botany Aviation Ltd.’s revenue fell 13% to £845k in the year to 31 Jan 2025, with a loss of £118k and 3 employees. The company is classified under “non-scheduled passenger air transport” and is based in Chorley; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chorley, North West
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- 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 company is Acepark Limited. The ultimate parent company is Knowlesway Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £974k | £845k |
| Cost of sales | £326k | £290k |
| Gross profit | £647k | £556k |
| Operating profit | £21.9k | £95.9k |
| Profit before tax | −£140k | −£118k |
| Profit after tax | −£140k | −£118k |
| Profit (best available) | −£140k | −£118k |
| Employees (average) | 3 | 3 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −14.4% | −14% |
| Gross margin | 66.5% | 65.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £325k | £282k |
| Profit per employee | −£46.8k | −£39.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼13.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £35.1k | £30k |
| Net assets | £391k | £273k |
| Fixed assets | £4.8m | £4.5m |
| Current assets | £179k | £207k |
| Debtors | £0 | £36.1k |
| Deferred income | £10.6k | £17.1k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −14%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 65.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £282k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£39.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 534.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.3%
- 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
- ▼30%
- Now £273k
- Cash at bank
- ▼15%
- Now £30k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 3
- Deferred income
- ▲61%
- Now £17.1k
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £4.5m
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
- Acepark Ltd (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Botany Aviation Ltd.this 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 31 Jan 2025 (profit −£118k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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