Knoll Rise Services Limited
Registered name: KNOLL RISE SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Calfords Group LLP groupKnoll Rise Services Limited made £18.6m revenue and £648k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Knoll Rise Services Limited’s revenue fell 4% to £18.6m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £648k profit and 294 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Orpington; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Orpington, London
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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: “At the start of the period, the immediate and ultimate parent”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 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) | £17.8m | £19.2m | £19.3m | £18.6m |
| Cost of sales | £16.2m | £17.4m | £17.5m | £16.9m |
| Gross profit | £1.6m | £1.8m | £1.8m | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £849k | £913k | £917k | £868k |
| Profit after tax | £685k | £736k | £684k | £648k |
| Profit (best available) | £685k | £736k | £684k | £648k |
| Staff costs | £15.7m | £17m | £17.2m | £16.6m |
| Employees (average) | 319 | 324 | 311 | 294 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.8% | 3.8% | 3.5% | 3.5% |
| Gross margin | 9% | 9.3% | 9.3% | 9.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £55.9k | £59.2k | £62k | £63.3k |
| Profit per employee | £2.1k | £2.3k | £2.2k | £2.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.5% | ▲0.6% | ▼3.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲7.4% | ▼7% | ▼5.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲1.6% | ▼4% | ▼5.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1m | £1m | £14.6k | £13.5k |
| Net assets | — | — | — | — |
| Current assets | £1.4m | £1.6m | £2.2m | £1.5m |
| Debtors | £361k | £618k | £2.2m | £1.5m |
| Deferred income | £852k | £894k | £955k | £917k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 9.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £63.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.2k
- 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
- 4.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.1%
- 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
- ▼7%
- Now £13.5k
- Headcount
- ▼5%
- Now 294
- Deferred income
- ▼4%
- Now £917k
- 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
- Calfords Group LLPultimate parent75–100%
- Knoll Rise Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Calford Seaden (Health & Safety) LimitedRev. £1.7m · Profit £507k
- Calfords LLPFigures not disclosed
- Calfordseaden LLPFigures 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 Mar 2025 (profit £648k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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