1st Choice Staff Recruitment Limited
Registered name: 1ST CHOICE STAFF RECRUITMENT LIMITED
Part of Bluestones Investment Group Limited group1st Choice Staff Recruitment Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Oct 2025 show net assets of £651k and 15 employees.
1st Choice Staff Recruitment Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Oct 2025 showed net assets of £651k and 15 employees. The company is classified under “other activities of employment placement agencies” and is based in Chester; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chester, North West
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- 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 year-end the immediate parent company was Bluestones Equity Partners Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
1st Choice Staff Recruitment Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Oct 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 15
- Net assets
- £651k
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 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 169 | 169 | 140 | 22 | 15 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | — | — | ▼31.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £869k | £806k | £40.3k | £21.3k | £49k |
| Net assets | £997k | £991k | £1m | £965k | £651k |
| Fixed assets | £22.3k | £4.9k | £4.3k | £5.9k | £4k |
| Current assets | £1.6m | £1.4m | £1.9m | £2m | £1.7m |
| Debtors | £586k | £402k | £447k | £510k | £355k |
| Deferred income | — | £169k | £73.8k | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
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
- ▼33%
- Now £651k
- Cash at bank
- ▲130%
- Now £49k
- Headcount
- ▼32%
- Now 15
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼33%
- Now £4k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Bluestones Investment Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Bluestones Equity Partners Limited75–100%
- 1st Choice Staff Recruitment Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (10)
- Clayton Recruitment LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Dynamite Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ec&i Partners LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Green Carbon Talent LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Personnel Selection Associates LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Protec Technical LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Seda Talent LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Thinkworkforce LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vital Care Support SW LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Vital Care Support UK 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 Oct 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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