Brancaster Care Homes Limited
Registered name: BRANCASTER CARE HOMES LIMITED
Part of Westcott Care Holdings Limited groupBrancaster Care Homes Limited made £11.4m revenue and £891k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Brancaster Care Homes Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £11.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £891k profit and 225 employees. The company is classified under “residential nursing care facilities” and is based in Warrington; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Warrington, North West
- 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. From the filing: “Westcott Care 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) | £10.2m | £11.1m | £11.4m |
| Cost of sales | £6.5m | £7m | £7.4m |
| Gross profit | £3.6m | £4.1m | £4m |
| Operating profit | £1.7m | £1.5m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | £1.4m | £1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | £931k | £891k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | £931k | £891k |
| Staff costs | £6.4m | £6.8m | £7.2m |
| Employees (average) | 241 | 233 | 225 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.9% | 8.4% | 7.8% |
| Gross margin | 35.8% | 37.1% | 35.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £42.1k | £47.6k | £50.5k |
| Profit per employee | £4.6k | £4k | £4k |
| Cash conversion | 106% | 109.6% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲9.1% | ▲2.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼15.8% | ▼4.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.3% | ▼3.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.7m | £3.1m | £599k |
| Net assets | £10.3m | £14.8m | £14m |
| Fixed assets | £14.7m | £20.6m | £19.6m |
| Current assets | £4m | £3.8m | £1m |
| Debtors | £159k | £302k | £205k |
| Cash from operations | £1.8m | £1.7m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £50.5k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 172.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.8%
- 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
- ▼6%
- Now £14m
- Cash at bank
- ▼81%
- Now £599k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 225
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £19.6m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Westcott Care Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Brancabar Limited75–100%
- Westcott Care Limited75–100%
- Brancaster Care Homes Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Cinnabar Health Group 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 £891k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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