Real Lives Community Interest Company
Registered name: REAL LIVES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Real Lives Community Interest Company made £594k revenue and £56.8k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Real Lives Community Interest Company’s revenue grew 15% to £594k in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £56.8k profit and 27 employees. The company is classified under “social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled” and is based in Nottingham; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Nottingham, 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 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £515k | £594k |
| Cost of sales | £41.3k | £41.5k |
| Gross profit | £473k | £552k |
| Operating profit | £13.8k | £67.9k |
| Profit before tax | £11.4k | £65.6k |
| Profit after tax | £11.7k | £56.8k |
| Profit (best available) | £11.7k | £56.8k |
| Employees (average) | 29 | 27 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 2.3% | 9.6% |
| Gross margin | 92% | 93% |
| Revenue per employee | £17.7k | £22k |
| Profit per employee | £403 | £2.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲386% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼6.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £27.4k | £31k |
| Net assets | −£19.7k | £37.1k |
| Fixed assets | £5.1k | £4.4k |
| Current assets | £40k | £67k |
| Debtors | £9.1k | £32.5k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 93%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £22k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £2.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 5.5%
- 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
- —
- Now £37.1k
- Cash at bank
- ▲13%
- Now £31k
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 27
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼14%
- Now £4.4k
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £56.8k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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