Aerospace Tooling Limited
Registered name: AEROSPACE TOOLING LIMITED
Part of Foresight Enterprise VCT PLC groupAerospace Tooling Limited made £6.6m revenue and a £1m loss in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Aerospace Tooling Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £6.6m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with a loss of £1m and 83 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Dartford; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dartford, South East
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- 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 | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £7.4m | £7.2m | £7.4m | £6.6m |
| Cost of sales | £2.9m | £3.4m | £3.7m | £3.6m |
| Gross profit | £4.5m | £3.8m | £3.7m | £3m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £319k | −£212k | −£1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £1m | £300k | −£237k | −£1.3m |
| Profit after tax | £967k | £262k | −£178k | −£1m |
| Profit (best available) | £967k | £262k | −£178k | −£1m |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £3.1m | £3.4m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 84 | 84 | 84 | 83 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 13.1% | 3.6% | −2.4% | −15.6% |
| Gross margin | 61.3% | 52.8% | 49.7% | 45.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £88.2k | £85.7k | £88k | £79.3k |
| Profit per employee | £11.5k | £3.1k | −£2.1k | −£12.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼2.8% | ▲2.7% | ▼11% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼72.9% | ▼167.8% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | ▼1.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £611k | £365k | £103k | £254k |
| Net assets | £10.5m | £10.8m | £10.6m | £9.6m |
| Fixed assets | £2.4m | £2.3m | £2m | £1.5m |
| Current assets | £9.8m | £10m | £10.8m | £11.5m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −15.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 45.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £79.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£12.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 22.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.6%
- 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
- ▼10%
- Now £9.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲146%
- Now £254k
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 83
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼28%
- Now £1.5m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Foresight Enterprise VCT PLCultimate parent50–75%
- Aerospace Tooling Corporation Limited75–100%
- Aerospace Tooling Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Aerospace Tooling Trustee 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 30 Jun 2025 (profit −£1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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