Miles Away Limited
Registered name: MILES AWAY LIMITED
Part of Hays Travel Group Limited groupMiles Away Limited made £12.6m revenue and £4.5m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Miles Away Limited’s revenue was £12.6m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £4.5m profit and 111 employees. The company is classified under “travel agency activities” and is based in Sunderland; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sunderland, North East
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- 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 company's immediate parent company during the year was Miles Away (Holdings) Ltd, a company registered in Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £4.4m | £12.6m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £0 | £0 |
| Gross profit | — | — | £4.4m | £12.6m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £1.6m | £7.4m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £1.6m | £6.4m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £1.2m | £4.5m |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £1.2m | £4.5m |
| Employees (average) | 93 | 108 | 93 | 111 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 28.3% | 35.8% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 100% | 100% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £47k | £113k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £13.3k | £40.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.1% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £928k | £2.2m | — | — |
| Net assets | £427k | £634k | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £308k | £327k | — | — |
| Current assets | £3.9m | £4.5m | — | — |
| Debtors | £567k | £657k | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | Accounts · bulk data May 2026 | Accounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 35.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 100%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £113k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £40.6k
- 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
- —
- Now 111
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hays Travel Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hays Travel Limited75–100%
- Miles Away Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (17)
- Inspearational Travels LimitedRev. £4.1m · Profit £317k
- Hays Beds LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Foreign Exchange LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Property Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Tour Operating LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Transfers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Transport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- John Stewart Travel LtdFigures not disclosed
- Just Go Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- L.a.h. Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Polka Dot Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rebecca Holt Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Holiday and Flight Centre LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Independent Travel Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Original Travel House LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Trusted Package Company LtdFigures not disclosed
- Victoria Travel Group 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 30 Apr 2025 (profit £4.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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