Provenance Hotels Limited
Registered name: PROVENANCE HOTELS LIMITED
Part of Provenance Hospitality Holdings Limited groupProvenance Hotels Limited made £3.3m revenue and a £888k loss in the year to 24 Aug 2025. read from filing text
Provenance Hotels Limited’s revenue fell 1% to £3.3m in the year to 24 Aug 2025, with a loss of £888k and 66 employees. The company is classified under “hotels and similar accommodation” and is based in Harrogate; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Harrogate, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 12 yrs · since 2014
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 27 Aug 2023 | 25 Aug 2024 | 24 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £3.5m | £3.3m | £3.3m |
| Cost of sales | £2.3m | £2.1m | £2m |
| Gross profit | £1.2m | £1.2m | £1.3m |
| Operating profit | −£1.1m | −£777k | −£574k |
| Profit before tax | −£1.4m | −£1.1m | −£888k |
| Profit after tax | −£1.4m | −£1.1m | −£888k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.4m | −£1.1m | −£888k |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £1.4m | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 83 | 74 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −39.6% | −34.9% | −27.3% |
| Gross margin | 34.2% | 36.9% | 40% |
| Revenue per employee | £41.9k | £44.4k | £49.3k |
| Profit per employee | −£16.6k | −£15.5k | −£13.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5.6% | ▼1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼10.8% | ▼10.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £95.2k | £74.1k | £42.8k |
| Net assets | −£2.8m | −£3.9m | −£4.8m |
| Fixed assets | £13.7m | £13.5m | £13.3m |
| Current assets | £348k | £336k | £271k |
| Debtors | £55.9k | £59.7k | £70.5k |
| Deferred income | £459k | £887k | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −27.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 40%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £49.3k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£13.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 407.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 35.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 2.2%
- 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 −£4.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▼42%
- Now £42.8k
- Headcount
- ▼11%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▲31%
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼2%
- Now £13.3m
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
- Provenance Hospitality Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Provenance Hotels Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Provenance Inns LimitedRev. £3.9m · Profit −£1.3m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 24 Aug 2025 (profit −£888k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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