Redbridge Associates Limited
Registered name: REDBRIDGE ASSOCIATES LIMITED
Part of Smart Dental Care Limited groupRedbridge Associates Limited made £22.9m revenue and a £806k loss in the year to 28 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Redbridge Associates Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £22.9m in the year to 28 Mar 2025, with a loss of £806k and 250 employees. The company is classified under “dental practice activities” and is based in Cheshire; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cheshire, North West
- Age
- 19 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: “Smart Dental Care Ltd”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 28 Mar 2023 | 28 Mar 2024 | 28 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) | £16.6m | £21.9m | £22.9m |
| Cost of sales | £14.5m | £17m | £17.2m |
| Gross profit | £2.2m | £4.9m | £5.7m |
| Operating profit | −£2.7m | −£456k | −£102k |
| Profit before tax | −£2.7m | −£955k | −£724k |
| Profit after tax | −£2.9m | −£1m | −£806k |
| Profit (best available) | −£2.9m | −£1m | −£806k |
| Staff costs | £5.4m | £5.9m | £5.8m |
| Employees (average) | 249 | 255 | 250 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −17.1% | −4.6% | −3.5% |
| Gross margin | 13% | 22.4% | 24.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £66.8k | £85.9k | £91.6k |
| Profit per employee | −£11.4k | −£3.9k | −£3.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲31.7% | ▲4.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.4% | ▼2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £698k | £4.3m | £519k |
| Net assets | £1.5m | £496k | −£310k |
| Fixed assets | £9.7m | £9.1m | £8m |
| Current assets | £8.6m | £13.1m | £10.5m |
| Debtors | £569k | £239k | £431k |
| Deferred income | £378k | £655k | £301k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −3.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £91.6k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£3.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 35%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- 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
- ▼162%
- Now −£310k
- Cash at bank
- ▼88%
- Now £519k
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 250
- Deferred income
- ▼54%
- Now £301k
- Fixed assets
- ▼12%
- Now £8m
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
- Smart Dental Care Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Redbridge Associates Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (5)
- Arshad Rafiq Longridge LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Care (Lancashire) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Drakes Dental Care LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Smile Clinics LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Tovey Little Dental Centre LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- Daylesford Associates 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 Mar 2025 (profit −£806k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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