Salt Creating Futures Limited
Registered name: SALT CREATING FUTURES LIMITED
Part of Salt Solutions Group Limited groupSalt Creating Futures Limited made £28.1m revenue and £352k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Salt Creating Futures Limited’s revenue grew 12% to £28.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £352k profit and 35 employees. The company is classified under “other activities of employment placement agencies” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £35.8m | £31.3m | £25.1m | £28.1m |
| Cost of sales | £30.1m | £26.3m | £21.2m | £23.1m |
| Gross profit | £5.7m | £5m | £3.9m | £5m |
| Operating profit | £1.6m | −£63.5k | £58.8k | £640k |
| Profit before tax | £1.5m | −£378k | −£226k | £402k |
| Profit after tax | £1.2m | −£309k | −£226k | £352k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.2m | −£309k | −£226k | £352k |
| Staff costs | £3.2m | £3.9m | £3m | £3.2m |
| Employees (average) | 40 | 46 | 46 | 35 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.3% | −1% | −0.9% | 1.3% |
| Gross margin | 15.9% | 16% | 15.6% | 17.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £894k | £681k | £546k | £802k |
| Profit per employee | £29.7k | −£6.7k | −£4.9k | £10.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼12.4% | ▼19.9% | ▲11.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼126% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲15% | 0% | ▼23.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £41.2k | £9.5k | £2.2k | £16.6k |
| Net assets | £3.1m | £2.8m | £2.5m | £2.3m |
| Current assets | £9m | £8.2m | £8.2m | £7.5m |
| Debtors | £6.2m | £4.1m | £3.5m | £3.7m |
| Deferred income | £1.6m | £1.1m | £1m | £1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 17.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £802k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10.1k
- 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
- 5.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- 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
- ▼12%
- Now £2.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲640%
- Now £16.6k
- Headcount
- ▼24%
- Now 35
- Deferred income
- ▲45%
- Now £1.5m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Salt Solutions Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Salt Creating Futures Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Salt Recruitment 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £352k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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