Hartford Care Limited
Registered name: HARTFORD CARE LIMITED
Part of Deer Capital Esg Investments Europe Limited groupHartford Care Limited made £3.4m revenue and £891k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2024.
Hartford Care Limited’s revenue grew 20% to £3.4m in the year to 31 Mar 2024, with £891k profit and 64 employees. The company is classified under “residential care activities for the elderly and disabled” and is based in Basingstoke; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Basingstoke, 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: “Hartford Care Group Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.7m | £2.8m | £3.4m |
| Cost of sales | £1.3m | £1.3m | £1.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | £1.5m | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £1m | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | £747k | £1.2m | £891k |
| Profit (best available) | £747k | £1.2m | £891k |
| Staff costs | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.4m |
| Employees (average) | 61 | 54 | 64 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 28% | 43.8% | 26.3% |
| Gross margin | 52.2% | 52.9% | 54.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £43.7k | £52.2k | £52.9k |
| Profit per employee | £12.3k | £22.9k | £13.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5.8% | ▲20% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲65.5% | ▼27.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.5% | ▲18.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £90.1k | £107k | £167k |
| Net assets | £5.6m | £6.9m | £7.9m |
| Fixed assets | £7.3m | £7.4m | £7.9m |
| Current assets | £6.6m | £7.9m | £8m |
| Debtors | £82k | £94.5k | £177k |
| Deferred income | £156k | £170k | £177k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 26.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 54.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £52.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 234.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.2%
- 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
- ▲15%
- Now £7.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲56%
- Now £167k
- Headcount
- ▲19%
- Now 64
- Deferred income
- ▲4%
- Now £177k
- Fixed assets
- ▲6%
- Now £7.9m
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
- Deer Capital Esg Investments Europe Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Deer Capital Care Homes Limited75–100%
- Deer Capital Hartford Care Homes Limited75–100%
- Hartford Care Group Limited75–100%
- Hartford Care Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Hartford Care (Southern) LimitedRev. £3.9m · Profit £963k
- Hartford Care (South West) LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (21)
- Scio Healthcare LimitedRev. £8.8m · Profit £1.7m
- Hartford Care (4) LimitedRev. £4.1m · Profit £1.4m
- Hartford Care (5) LimitedRev. £3.3m · Profit £611k
- Ashley Grange Nursing Home LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Belford Care LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Burnham Lodge LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Courtdrift LimitedFigures not disclosed
- H. W. Group Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (10) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (11) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (12) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (13) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (14) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (15) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (16) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (2) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (3) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (8) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care (9) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hartford Care Holdco LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Whites Investments LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2024 (profit £891k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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