Temples Transport Limited
Registered name: TEMPLES TRANSPORT LIMITED
Part of BL Holdco Limited groupTemples Transport Limited made £10.9m revenue and £114k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Temples Transport Limited’s revenue grew 6% to £10.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £114k profit and 53 employees. The company is classified under “freight transport by road” and is based in Spalding; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Spalding, East of England
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2011
- 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 wholly owned by Drury Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 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 |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.8m | £10.3m | £10.9m |
| Cost of sales | £10.8m | £9.3m | £9.1m |
| Gross profit | £1m | £974k | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | £378k | £358k | £396k |
| Profit before tax | £111k | £101k | £155k |
| Profit after tax | £12.4k | £87.7k | £114k |
| Profit (best available) | £12.4k | £87.7k | £114k |
| Staff costs | £1.1m | £1.1m | £2.4m |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 26 | 53 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0.1% | 0.9% | 1.1% |
| Gross margin | 8.8% | 9.5% | 16.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £493k | £395k | £205k |
| Profit per employee | £518 | £3.4k | £2.1k |
| Cash conversion | −266.4% | −336.8% | −401.6% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼13.4% | ▲6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲605.6% | ▲29.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.3% | ▲103.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £425k | £536k | £667k |
| Net assets | £808k | £678k | £292k |
| Fixed assets | £2.4m | £1.8m | £1.4m |
| Current assets | £3.6m | £3.4m | £2.7m |
| Debtors | £2m | £1.8m | £1.8m |
| Deferred income | £57.8k | £110k | £207k |
| Cash from operations | −£1m | −£1.2m | −£1.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 16.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £205k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −401.6%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 13%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.3%
- 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
- ▼57%
- Now £292k
- Cash at bank
- ▲25%
- Now £667k
- Headcount
- ▲104%
- Now 53
- Deferred income
- ▲88%
- Now £207k
- Fixed assets
- ▼22%
- Now £1.4m
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
- BL Holdco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Buffaload Logistics Limited50–75%
- Drury Holdings Limited75–100%
- Temples Transport Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Temples Resources LtdActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures 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 £114k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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