Grove Care Limited
Registered name: GROVE CARE LIMITED
Part of Stessa Trading Limited groupGrove Care Limited made £13.7m revenue and £3.6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Grove Care Limited’s revenue was £13.7m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £3.6m profit and 229 employees. The company is classified under “residential care activities for the elderly and disabled” and is based in Godalming; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Godalming, South East
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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: “MREF Allegra Care Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 15 Nov 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7m | £13.7m | £13.7m |
| Cost of sales | £2.7m | £6.5m | £6.5m |
| Gross profit | £4.3m | £7.2m | £7.2m |
| Profit before tax | £3m | £4.6m | £4.2m |
| Profit after tax | £2.4m | £3.9m | £3.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.4m | £3.9m | £3.6m |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £6.6m | £6.7m |
| Employees (average) | 222 | 230 | 229 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 34.8% | 28.7% | 26.1% |
| Gross margin | 61.8% | 52.5% | 52.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £31.5k | £59.8k | £59.8k |
| Profit per employee | £11k | £17.2k | £15.6k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £1.9m | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £35.9m | £39.9m | £43.6m |
| Fixed assets | £43.6m | £43.8m | £44.4m |
| Current assets | £3.5m | £6.2m | £9.9m |
| Debtors | £224k | £1.5m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £45.3k | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 26.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 52.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £59.8k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 324.4%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- 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
- —
- Now £43.6m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 229
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £44.4m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Stessa Trading Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Stessa Holdings Limited75–100%
- Stessa Limited75–100%
- Moorfield Group Limited75–100%
- Mref V GP Limited75–100%
- Mref V Care Holdings Limited75–100%
- Mref Allegra Care Holdings Limited75–100%
- Grove Care 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 31 Dec 2024 (profit £3.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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