Castlefield Recruitment Limited
Registered name: CASTLEFIELD RECRUITMENT LIMITED
Part of Castlefield Group Limited groupCastlefield Recruitment Limited made £13m revenue and a £220k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Castlefield Recruitment Limited’s revenue fell 12% to £13m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £220k and 46 employees. The company is classified under “other activities of employment placement agencies” and is based in Leeds; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber
- 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: “Castlefield Group Limited is the immediate and ultimate parent undertaking”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.7m | £13m |
| Cost of sales | £11m | £9.2m |
| Gross profit | £3.7m | £3.7m |
| Operating profit | −£27.9k | £55.9k |
| Profit before tax | −£77.2k | −£224k |
| Profit after tax | −£64.6k | −£220k |
| Profit (best available) | −£64.6k | −£220k |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £2.9m |
| Employees (average) | 53 | 46 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −0.4% | −1.7% |
| Gross margin | 25.2% | 28.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £278k | £282k |
| Profit per employee | −£1.2k | −£4.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼11.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼13.2% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £15.2k | £113k |
| Net assets | £1m | £811k |
| Fixed assets | £419k | £382k |
| Current assets | £2.1m | £2m |
| Debtors | £1.7m | £1.7m |
| Deferred income | £362k | £359k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −1.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 28.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £282k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£4.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.2%
- 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
- ▼22%
- Now £811k
- Cash at bank
- ▲643%
- Now £113k
- Headcount
- ▼13%
- Now 46
- Deferred income
- ▼1%
- Now £359k
- Fixed assets
- ▼9%
- Now £382k
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
- Castlefield Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Castlefield Recruitment Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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 −£220k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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