Daleacre Healthcare Limited
Registered name: DALEACRE HEALTHCARE LIMITED
Part of Daleacre Holdings Limited groupDaleacre Healthcare Limited made £16m revenue and a £81.9k loss in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
Daleacre Healthcare Limited’s revenue grew 5% to £16m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with a loss of £81.9k and 144 employees. The company is classified under “dispensing chemist in specialised stores” and is based in Derby; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Derby, East Midlands
- 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.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £14.6m | £15.3m | £16m |
| Cost of sales | £11.2m | £11.4m | £11.6m |
| Gross profit | £3.4m | £4m | £4.4m |
| Operating profit | −£777k | −£448k | −£19.5k |
| Profit before tax | −£838k | −£507k | −£81.9k |
| Profit after tax | −£823k | −£507k | −£81.9k |
| Profit (best available) | −£823k | −£507k | −£81.9k |
| Staff costs | £2.8m | £3.2m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 142 | 136 | 144 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −5.6% | −3.3% | −0.5% |
| Gross margin | 23.5% | 25.9% | 27.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £103k | £113k | £111k |
| Profit per employee | −£5.8k | −£3.7k | −£569 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲5% | ▲4.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼4.2% | ▲5.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £10.2k | £8.5k | £14.1k |
| Net assets | £12m | £11.5m | £11.4m |
| Fixed assets | £15.4m | £15.3m | £15.3m |
| Current assets | £2.9m | £2.2m | £2.3m |
| Debtors | £1.2m | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £66.3k | £75.4k | £68.7k |
| Cash from operations | £1.2m | £666k | −£317k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £111k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£569
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 95.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 8.8%
- 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
- ▼1%
- Now £11.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲66%
- Now £14.1k
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 144
- Deferred income
- ▼9%
- Now £68.7k
- Fixed assets
- ▼0%
- Now £15.3m
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
- Daleacre Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Daleacre Healthcare Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (2)
- Blackwell Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Daleacre Medical Services LtdFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- Blackwell Holdings 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 Jul 2025 (profit −£81.9k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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