DCSL Limited
Registered name: DCSL LIMITED
DCSL Limited made £5m revenue and £1.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
DCSL Limited’s revenue grew 41% to £5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £1.1m profit and 76 employees. The company is classified under “residential care activities for the elderly and disabled” and is based in March; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- March, East of England
- 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 company is a subsidiary undertaking of Keswick (Cambridgeshire) Ltd, a company registered in”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.9m | £3.5m | £5m |
| Cost of sales | £1.7m | £2m | £2.7m |
| Gross profit | £1.2m | £1.5m | £2.3m |
| Operating profit | £642k | £819k | £1.6m |
| Profit before tax | £547k | £690k | £1.5m |
| Profit after tax | £649k | £523k | £1.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £649k | £523k | £1.1m |
| Staff costs | £1.6m | £1.9m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 60 | 64 | 76 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 22.3% | 14.9% | 22% |
| Gross margin | 40.4% | 42.2% | 46% |
| Revenue per employee | £48.4k | £55k | £65.5k |
| Profit per employee | £10.8k | £8.2k | £14.4k |
| Cash conversion | 42% | 69.7% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲21.3% | ▲41.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼19.3% | ▲109.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.7% | ▲18.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £219 | £82.9k | £134k |
| Net assets | £2.7m | £3m | £6.7m |
| Fixed assets | £4.8m | £5.1m | £9.1m |
| Current assets | £1.6m | £2m | £3m |
| Debtors | £310k | £261k | £236k |
| Deferred income | £125k | £43.5k | £48k |
| Cash from operations | £270k | £571k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 22%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 46%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £65.5k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 182.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 4.8%
- 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
- ▲121%
- Now £6.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲61%
- Now £134k
- Headcount
- ▲19%
- Now 76
- Deferred income
- ▲10%
- Now £48k
- Fixed assets
- ▲79%
- Now £9.1m
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £1.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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