Connex Education Partnership Limited
Registered name: CONNEX EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
Part of Bluestones Investment Group Limited groupConnex Education Partnership Limited made £5.3m revenue and £105k profit in the year to 31 Oct 2025. read from filing text
Connex Education Partnership Limited’s revenue grew 321% to £5.3m in the year to 31 Oct 2025, with £105k profit and 64 employees. The company is classified under “other activities of employment placement agencies” and is based in Chester; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chester, North West
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2016
- 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: “At the year end the immediate parent company was The Classroom Partnership Limited, a company registered in”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2022 | 31 Oct 2023 | 31 Oct 2024 | 31 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £1.3m | £1.3m | £5.3m |
| Cost of sales | — | £1.1m | £1.2m | £4.7m |
| Gross profit | — | £172k | £99.8k | £622k |
| Operating profit | — | −£57.3k | £199k | £115k |
| Profit before tax | — | −£59.5k | £194k | £95.2k |
| Profit after tax | — | −£45.8k | £92k | £105k |
| Profit (best available) | — | −£45.8k | £92k | £105k |
| Staff costs | — | £885k | £460k | £1.3m |
| Employees (average) | 46 | 62 | 63 | 64 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | −3.6% | 7.3% | 2% |
| Gross margin | — | 13.4% | 8% | 11.8% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £20.7k | £19.9k | £82.5k |
| Profit per employee | — | −£739 | £1.5k | £1.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼2.3% | ▲321.1% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲14.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲34.8% | ▲1.6% | ▲1.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £194k | £5.7k | £36.4k | £180k |
| Net assets | £187k | £17.1k | £11.8k | £39.2k |
| Fixed assets | £468k | £322k | £179k | £83.5k |
| Current assets | £10.3m | £15.6m | £20.4m | £23.1m |
| Debtors | £2.1m | £2.4m | £2.6m | £3m |
| Deferred income | — | £315k | £768k | £564k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 11.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £82.5k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 10.7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 57.7%
- 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
- ▲233%
- Now £39.2k
- Cash at bank
- ▲394%
- Now £180k
- Headcount
- ▲2%
- Now 64
- Deferred income
- ▼27%
- Now £564k
- Fixed assets
- ▼53%
- Now £83.5k
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
- Bluestones Investment Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- The Classroom Partnership Limited75–100%
- Connex Education Partnership Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (14)
- Academize LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Academy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership Birmingham LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership Bristol LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership Cardiff LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership Derby LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership Liverpool LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership Manchester LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership North East LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership Nottingham LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Education Partnership Warrington LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Connex Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Supply Pool LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Teacher Training College LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Oct 2025 (profit £105k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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