Effective Security Services Limited
Registered name: EFFECTIVE SECURITY SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Effective Security Holdings Limited groupEffective Security Services Limited made £42.2m revenue and £743k profit in the year to 28 Feb 2025.
Effective Security Services Limited’s revenue was £42.2m in the year to 28 Feb 2025, with £743k profit and 114 employees. The company is classified under “private security activities” and is based in Leeds; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- 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 | 29 Feb 2024 | 28 Feb 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £19.4m | £42.2m |
| Cost of sales | £14.9m | £31.8m |
| Gross profit | £4.6m | £10.4m |
| Operating profit | £475k | £1.5m |
| Profit before tax | £346k | £1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £256k | £743k |
| Profit (best available) | £256k | £743k |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £5.3m |
| Employees (average) | 109 | 114 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 1.3% | 1.8% |
| Gross margin | 23.5% | 24.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £178k | £370k |
| Profit per employee | £2.3k | £6.5k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £157k | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £2.8m |
| Fixed assets | £3.1m | £2.6m |
| Current assets | £7.8m | £9.1m |
| Debtors | £3.8m | £3.4m |
| Deferred income | £784k | £2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £370k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8%
- 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 £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 114
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £2m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £2.6m
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
- Effective Security Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Effective Security Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Effective Security Staff LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ess Merger LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Minhoco 73 LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (2)
- Academy Training Network LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ess Bidco 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 28 Feb 2025 (profit £743k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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