Shield Safety Group Limited
Registered name: SHIELD SAFETY GROUP LIMITED
Part of Shield Safety Group Holdings Limited groupShield Safety Group Limited made £15.5m revenue and £1.3m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Shield Safety Group Limited’s revenue was £15.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.3m profit and 121 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Manchester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.7m | £8.5m | £9.7m | £15.5m |
| Cost of sales | £3.7m | £4.6m | £4.9m | £8.8m |
| Gross profit | £4m | £3.9m | £4.9m | £6.7m |
| Operating profit | £782k | £452k | £1.2m | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £700k | £420k | £1.3m | £1.6m |
| Profit after tax | £639k | £524k | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Profit (best available) | £639k | £524k | £1.1m | £1.3m |
| Staff costs | £4.6m | £5.3m | £5.7m | £8.8m |
| Employees (average) | 98 | 108 | 115 | 121 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 8.3% | 6.2% | 11.7% | 8.4% |
| Gross margin | 51.5% | 45.7% | 50% | 43.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £78.4k | £78.3k | £84.6k | £128k |
| Profit per employee | £6.5k | £4.9k | £9.9k | £10.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10% | ▲15.1% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼18% | ▲116.6% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10.2% | ▲6.5% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £682k | £164k | £0 | £263k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £1.1m | £1.9m | £2.5m |
| Fixed assets | £202k | £266k | £315k | £236k |
| Current assets | £5.6m | £5.3m | £5.8m | £6.9m |
| Debtors | £2m | £1.3m | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £1.8m | £2.3m | £1.9m | £1.8m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data May 2024 | Accounts · bulk data May 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £128k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.8k
- 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
- 11.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.2%
- 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 £2.5m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £263k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 121
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.8m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £236k
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
- Shield Safety Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Shield Safety Group Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Dynamic Risk Indicator 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £1.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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