Shearwater Shared Services Limited
Registered name: SHEARWATER SHARED SERVICES LIMITED
Part of Shearwater Group Plc groupShearwater Shared Services Limited made £1.6m revenue and £187k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Shearwater Shared Services Limited’s revenue was £1.6m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £187k profit and 10 employees. The company is classified under “information technology consultancy activities” and is based in London; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2018
- 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 Mar 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.5m | £1.6m |
| Cost of sales | £0 | £0 |
| Gross profit | £1.5m | £1.6m |
| Operating profit | −£25.1k | £188k |
| Profit before tax | −£26.1k | £187k |
| Profit after tax | −£26.5k | £187k |
| Profit (best available) | −£26.5k | £187k |
| Employees (average) | 9 | 10 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −1.7% | 11.4% |
| Gross margin | 100% | 100% |
| Revenue per employee | £172k | £164k |
| Profit per employee | −£2.9k | £18.7k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £229k | £10.6k |
| Net assets | £646k | £836k |
| Fixed assets | £2.1k | £1.5k |
| Current assets | £5.8m | £8.2m |
| Debtors | £0 | £25.8k |
| Deferred income | £221k | £197k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 11.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 100%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £164k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 12%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.6%
- 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 £836k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £10.6k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 10
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £197k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £1.5k
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
- Shearwater Group Plc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Shearwater Shared Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £187k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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