Provenance Inns Limited
Registered name: PROVENANCE INNS LIMITED
Part of Provenance Hospitality Holdings Limited groupProvenance Inns Limited made £3.9m revenue and a £1.3m loss in the year to 24 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Provenance Inns Limited’s revenue grew 1% to £3.9m in the year to 24 Aug 2025, with a loss of £1.3m and 110 employees. The company is classified under “hotels and similar accommodation” and is based in Harrogate; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Harrogate, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- 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 | 27 Aug 2023 | 25 Aug 2024 | 24 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.8m | £3.9m | £3.9m |
| Cost of sales | £2.7m | £2.6m | £2.5m |
| Gross profit | £1.1m | £1.3m | £1.4m |
| Operating profit | −£666k | −£717k | −£675k |
| Profit before tax | −£1.2m | −£1.4m | −£1.3m |
| Profit after tax | −£1.2m | −£1.4m | −£1.3m |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.2m | −£1.4m | −£1.3m |
| Staff costs | £2.4m | £2.3m | £2.2m |
| Employees (average) | 121 | 115 | 110 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −32.6% | −36% | −32.7% |
| Gross margin | 28% | 33.4% | 35.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £31.1k | £33.7k | £35.5k |
| Profit per employee | −£10.1k | −£12.1k | −£11.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.9% | ▲1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼5% | ▼4.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £165k | £126k | £17.3k |
| Net assets | −£4.9m | −£6.3m | −£7.6m |
| Fixed assets | £7.3m | £7.2m | £7m |
| Current assets | £11.5m | £12.1m | £12.3m |
| Debtors | £124k | £75.8k | £76.1k |
| Deferred income | £835k | £1.3m | £1.9m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −32.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £35.5k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£11.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 178.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 48.4%
- 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
- —
- Now −£7.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▼86%
- Now £17.3k
- Headcount
- ▼4%
- Now 110
- Deferred income
- ▲46%
- Now £1.9m
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £7m
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
- Provenance Hospitality Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Provenance Inns Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Provenance Hotels LimitedRev. £3.3m · Profit −£888k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 24 Aug 2025 (profit −£1.3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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