Monks Contractors Limited
Registered name: MONKS CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Monks Contractors Limited made £12.2m revenue and £40.5k profit in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Monks Contractors Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £12.2m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with £40.5k profit and 80 employees. The company is classified under “construction of utility projects for fluids” and is based in Blackburn; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Blackburn, North West
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £12.4m | £12.8m | £12m | £12.2m |
| Cost of sales | £8.9m | £8.9m | £8.3m | £8.6m |
| Gross profit | £3.6m | £3.9m | £3.6m | £3.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £1.2m | £1.4m | £838k |
| Profit before tax | £1.2m | £952k | £818k | £392k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £835k | £616k | £40.5k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £835k | £616k | £40.5k |
| Staff costs | £3.6m | £3.7m | £3.8m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 81 | 81 | 77 | 80 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.9% | 6.5% | 5.1% | 0.3% |
| Gross margin | 28.8% | 30.6% | 30.4% | 29.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £154k | £158k | £155k | £153k |
| Profit per employee | £13.6k | £10.3k | £8k | £506 |
| Cash conversion | −132.9% | −297.2% | −166.3% | −301.4% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲3% | ▼6.7% | ▲2.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼24.4% | ▼26.2% | ▼93.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼4.9% | ▲3.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £167k | £162k | £315k | £178k |
| Net assets | £3.1m | £3.5m | £5.4m | £5.2m |
| Fixed assets | £11m | £10.1m | £11.9m | £11.2m |
| Current assets | £5.2m | £4.5m | £5.1m | £6.1m |
| Debtors | £2.5m | £1.6m | £1.6m | £2.7m |
| Deferred income | — | — | £148k | £134k |
| Cash from operations | −£1.9m | −£3.7m | −£2.3m | −£2.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 29.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £153k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £506
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −301.4%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 92%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 22%
- 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
- ▼3%
- Now £5.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼43%
- Now £178k
- Headcount
- ▲4%
- Now 80
- Deferred income
- ▼10%
- Now £134k
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £11.2m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit £40.5k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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