Aquavista Watersides Ltd
Registered name: AQUAVISTA WATERSIDES LTD
Part of Antin Infrastructure Partners S.A. groupAquavista Watersides Ltd made £23.2m revenue and £7m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Aquavista Watersides Ltd’s revenue grew 3% to £23.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £7m profit and 183 employees. The company is classified under “other amusement and recreation activities” and is based in Nottinghamshire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nottinghamshire, East 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: “The immediate parent company of Aquavista Watersides Ltd is Aquavista Watersides”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.3m | £22.5m | £23.2m |
| Cost of sales | £1.3m | £1.8m | £1.7m |
| Gross profit | £13.9m | £20.7m | £21.5m |
| Operating profit | £2.1m | £5.2m | £8.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £4.3m | £7.1m |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | £4.7m | £7m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | £4.7m | £7m |
| Staff costs | £5.1m | £5m | £5.2m |
| Employees (average) | 196 | 190 | 183 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 8.1% | 20.7% | 30.3% |
| Gross margin | 91.2% | 92.1% | 92.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £78k | £119k | £127k |
| Profit per employee | £6.3k | £24.5k | £38.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲47.4% | ▲3.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲275.6% | ▲51.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.1% | ▼3.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.4m | £1.9m | £4.8m |
| Net assets | £12m | £16.6m | £23.7m |
| Fixed assets | £84.8m | £86.9m | £88.1m |
| Current assets | £6.9m | £5.7m | £8.2m |
| Debtors | £506k | £1.2m | £947k |
| Deferred income | £4.6m | £5.3m | £5.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 30.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 92.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £127k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £38.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 379.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 25.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.1%
- 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
- ▲42%
- Now £23.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲153%
- Now £4.8m
- Headcount
- ▼4%
- Now 183
- Deferred income
- ▲11%
- Now £5.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▲1%
- Now £88.1m
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
- Antin Infrastructure Partners S.A. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Pelagia Topco Limited75–100%
- Pelagia Bidco Limited75–100%
- Aquavista Watersides Topco Ltd75–100%
- Project Belize Limited75–100%
- Aquavista Watersides 2 Ltd75–100%
- Aquavista Watersides Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Castle Marinas LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Clyde Marina 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 Mar 2025 (profit £7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 23 Oct 2026
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