Your Local Garden Centre Group Ltd
Registered name: YOUR LOCAL GARDEN CENTRE GROUP LTD
Part of Garden Centre Holdings Limited groupYour Local Garden Centre Group Ltd made £10m revenue and a £712k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2024.
Your Local Garden Centre Group Ltd’s revenue grew 34% to £10m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with a loss of £712k and 159 employees. The company is classified under “retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds, fertilizers, pet animals and pet food in specialised stores” and is based in Ferndown; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Ferndown, South West
- 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. From the filing: “The ultimate controlling party is Mr P O Richards, who is majority shareholder of Garden Centre Holdings Limited, which owns 100% of the issued share capital of the company.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £7.5m | £10m |
| Cost of sales | — | £3.7m | £4.8m |
| Gross profit | — | £3.8m | £5.2m |
| Operating profit | — | £116k | £358k |
| Profit before tax | — | −£167k | −£770k |
| Profit after tax | — | −£167k | −£712k |
| Profit (best available) | — | −£167k | −£712k |
| Staff costs | — | £2.2m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 60 | 120 | 159 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | −2.2% | −7.1% |
| Gross margin | — | 50.9% | 52% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £62.3k | £62.9k |
| Profit per employee | — | −£1.4k | −£4.5k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲33.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲100% | ▲32.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £302k | £391k | £167k |
| Net assets | £2.9m | £3m | £1.9m |
| Fixed assets | £7.7m | £8m | £8m |
| Current assets | £2.1m | £2.1m | £1.9m |
| Debtors | £41.5k | £39.4k | £70k |
| Deferred income | — | £263k | £226k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −7.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 52%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £62.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£4.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 80%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- 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
- ▼35%
- Now £1.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼57%
- Now £167k
- Headcount
- ▲33%
- Now 159
- Deferred income
- ▼14%
- Now £226k
- Fixed assets
- ▲0%
- Now £8m
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
- Garden Centre Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Your Local Garden Centre Group Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Everton Nurseries,limitedRev. £2.8m · 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 31 Dec 2024 (profit −£712k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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