Harlequin Childcare Limited
Registered name: HARLEQUIN CHILDCARE LIMITED
Part of Eagle Superco Limited groupHarlequin Childcare Limited made £0 revenue and £0 profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Harlequin Childcare Limited’s revenue fell 100% to £0 in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £0 profit and 0 employees. The company is classified under “pre-primary education” and is based in Burntwood; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burntwood, West Midlands
- 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: “Busy Bees Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.1m | £1.2m | £0 |
| Cost of sales | £713k | £725k | £0 |
| Gross profit | £361k | £441k | £0 |
| Operating profit | — | — | £0 |
| Profit before tax | £240k | £328k | £0 |
| Profit after tax | £241k | £329k | £0 |
| Profit (best available) | £241k | £329k | £0 |
| Employees (average) | 25 | 22 | 0 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 22.4% | 28.2% | — |
| Gross margin | 33.6% | 37.8% | — |
| Revenue per employee | £43k | £53k | — |
| Profit per employee | £9.6k | £15k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8.6% | ▼100% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲36.5% | ▼100% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼12% | ▼100% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £59k | £7k | — |
| Net assets | £737k | £1.1m | — |
| Fixed assets | £564k | £550k | — |
| Current assets | £870k | £1.6m | — |
| Debtors | £2k | £0 | — |
| Deferred income | £72k | £71k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼100%
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Eagle Superco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Eagle Topco Limited75–100%
- Eagle Holdco Limited75–100%
- Eagle Newco Limited75–100%
- Eagle Midco Limited75–100%
- Eagle Bidco Limited75–100%
- Eagle Target Limited75–100%
- Busy Bees Holdings Limited75–100%
- Harlequin Childcare Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (36)
- Busy Bees Nurseries LimitedRev. £378m · Profit £70.4m
- Busy Bees Day Nurseries (Trading) LimitedRev. £48.3m · Profit £10.2m
- Busy Bees Nurseries (Scotland) LimitedRev. £21.1m · Profit £3m
- Eagle Leasing LimitedRev. £9.4m · Profit £5.2m
- Busy Bees Education & Training LimitedRev. £4.5m · Profit £652k
- Newbyres Nursery LimitedRev. £2.3m · Profit £704k
- Oakwood Nurseries LimitedRev. £1.7m · Profit £344k
- Sunshine Day Care LimitedRev. £1.2m · Profit −£397k
- Goldstar Nursery LimitedRev. £880k · Profit £164k
- Alderley Day Nursery LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £0
- Brunton Nursery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bushbabies Childrens Nurseries (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Busy Bees Day Nurseries LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Countryside Day Nurseries Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Daisy and Jake Day Nursery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- DRS Properties LimitedRev. — · Profit −£19k
- Eagle Target 5 LimitedRev. — · Profit £1.5m
- Egg Childcare Holdings LtdFigures not disclosed
- Great Little Childcare Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Happy Child LimitedFigures not disclosed
- I Can Day Nurseries LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Just Learning Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Kids First Day Nurseries LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kids Multiverse LtdFigures not disclosed
- Les Enfants Nursery (Scotland) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Little Bear's Daycare Holdco 2 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- LVN Holdings LtdFigures not disclosed
- Mace Montessori Schools LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nu Nu LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Oak Tree Nursery Investments LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Paintkey LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Positive Steps Childrens Day Nursery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Razain Enterprises LtdFigures not disclosed
- Rosevale Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Squiggles Childcare LimitedFigures not disclosed
- ST Pauls Lettings LtdRev. — · Profit −£2k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £0), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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