Action for Care Limited
Registered name: ACTION FOR CARE LIMITED
Part of Hadfield Group Limited groupAction for Care Limited made £11.6m revenue and £210k profit in the year to 31 Aug 2025.
Action for Care Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £11.6m in the year to 31 Aug 2025, with £210k profit and 264 employees. The company is classified under “other human health activities” and is based in Chesterfield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chesterfield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2008
- 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 directors consider the ultimate parent undertaking to be Hadfield Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Consolidated financial statements can be obtained from the company's reg”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2022 | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 | 31 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £9m | £10.1m | £10.4m | £11.6m |
| Cost of sales | £6.5m | £7.3m | £7.6m | £8.6m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2.7m | £2.8m | £3m |
| Operating profit | £904k | £1m | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Profit before tax | £594k | £451k | £440k | £376k |
| Profit after tax | £506k | £289k | £325k | £210k |
| Profit (best available) | £506k | £289k | £325k | £210k |
| Staff costs | £6.5m | £7.3m | £7.6m | — |
| Employees (average) | — | 246 | 249 | 264 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.6% | 2.9% | 3.1% | 1.8% |
| Gross margin | 28.1% | 26.9% | 26.5% | 25.6% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £40.9k | £41.8k | £43.8k |
| Profit per employee | — | £1.2k | £1.3k | £795 |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲11.9% | ▲3.5% | ▲11% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼42.9% | ▲12.3% | ▼35.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲1.2% | ▲6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £729k | £744k | £411k | — |
| Net assets | £3.3m | £3.6m | £3.8m | — |
| Fixed assets | £12.7m | £12.6m | £12.6m | — |
| Current assets | £2m | £3.3m | £3.1m | — |
| Debtors | £362k | £452k | £355k | — |
| Deferred income | £320k | £378k | £405k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £43.8k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £795
- 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
- ▲6%
- Now 264
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hadfield Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Action for Care Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Four Care Plus LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (4)
- Action for Care Contracts LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Brindwood Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hadfield Equity Partners LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Progress4care 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 31 Aug 2025 (profit £210k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 19 Oct 2026
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