Little Explorers Nursery and Preschool Limited
Registered name: LITTLE EXPLORERS NURSERY AND PRESCHOOL LIMITED
Part of Melrose Row Ltd groupLittle Explorers Nursery and Preschool Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 30 Sep 2025 show net assets of £330k and 46 employees.
Little Explorers Nursery and Preschool 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 30 Sep 2025 showed net assets of £330k and 46 employees. The company is classified under “pre-primary education” and is based in Cheltenham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cheltenham, South 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: “Indexfirst Limited”
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Little Explorers Nursery and Preschool Limited’s accounts for the year to 30 Sep 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
- 46
- Net assets
- £330k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 43 | 48 | 46 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Headcount growth | — | ▲11.6% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £133k | £157k | £135k |
| Net assets | £29.3k | £27.6k | £330k |
| Fixed assets | £4.4k | £23.9k | £74.2k |
| Current assets | £173k | £197k | £463k |
| Debtors | £40.8k | £6.7k | £39.3k |
| Deferred income | — | — | £51.4k |
| Source | AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data May 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
- —
- Now £330k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £135k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 46
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £51.4k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £74.2k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Melrose Row Ltdultimate parent50–75%
- Albany Hill Topco Limited75–100%
- Albany Hill Midco Limited75–100%
- Albany Hill Limited75–100%
- Albany Hill Southwest Opco Limited75–100%
- Indexfirst Limited75–100%
- Little Explorers Nursery and Preschool 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 FilletedAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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