True Fair Trading CIC
Registered name: TRUE FAIR TRADING CIC
True Fair Trading CIC made £118k revenue and a £6.4k loss in the year to 30 Sep 2024.
True Fair Trading CIC’s revenue grew 21% to £118k in the year to 30 Sep 2024, with a loss of £6.4k and 0 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale via stalls and markets of other goods” and is based in Melton Mowbray; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active - Proposal to Strike off
- Location
- Melton Mowbray, East Midlands
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2012
- Type
- Community Interest Company
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £161k | £97.5k | £118k |
| Cost of sales | £81.7k | £25.8k | £45k |
| Gross profit | £78.8k | £71.7k | £73.3k |
| Operating profit | £2k | −£20.2k | −£6.4k |
| Profit before tax | £2k | −£20.2k | −£6.4k |
| Profit after tax | £2k | −£20.2k | −£6.4k |
| Profit (best available) | £2k | −£20.2k | −£6.4k |
| Employees (average) | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 1.2% | −20.7% | −5.4% |
| Gross margin | 49.1% | 73.5% | 62% |
| Revenue per employee | £161k | £97.5k | — |
| Profit per employee | £2k | −£20.2k | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼39.2% | ▲21.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼1134% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▼100% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | — | £858 | £6k |
| Net assets | £24k | £32 | £24k |
| Fixed assets | £1k | £1k | £1k |
| Current assets | £30.3k | £26.9k | £23k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −5.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 62%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- ▲74806%
- Now £24k
- Cash at bank
- ▲604%
- Now £6k
- Headcount
- ▼100%
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- 0%
- Now £1k
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2024 (profit −£6.4k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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