Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors Limited
Registered name: HODGE JONES & ALLEN SOLICITORS LIMITED
Part of Hodge Jones & Allen Trustees Limited groupHodge Jones & Allen Solicitors Limited made £9.9m revenue and £764k profit in the year to 30 Apr 2024. read from filing text
Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors Limited’s revenue fell 20% to £9.9m in the year to 30 Apr 2024, with £764k profit and 108 employees. The company is classified under “solicitors” and is based in Cheltenham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Liquidation
- Location
- Cheltenham, South West
- 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. From the filing: “The ultimate controlling party is the HJA Employee Ownership Trust whose corporate trustee is Hodge Jones & Allen Trustees Limited.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2022 | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit only | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £12.4m | £9.9m |
| Operating profit | — | £3.7m | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £11.4m | £3.4m | £1m |
| Profit after tax | £5.5k | £2.7m | £764k |
| Profit (best available) | £5.5k | £2.7m | £764k |
| Staff costs | £8.3m | £6.6m | £6.7m |
| Employees (average) | 156 | 109 | 108 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | 21.9% | 7.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £114k | £91.9k |
| Profit per employee | £35 | £24.9k | £7.1k |
| Cash conversion | — | −7.7% | −53.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼20% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲49268% | ▼71.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼30.1% | ▼0.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3k | £0 | — |
| Net assets | £4.6m | £7.3m | £8.2m |
| Current assets | £10.2m | £14.3m | — |
| Debtors | £3.1m | £4.3m | £4.9m |
| Deferred income | £836k | £948k | £690k |
| Cash from operations | — | −£284k | −£638k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 7.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £91.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £7.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −53.3%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 7%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 49.1%
- 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
- ▲12%
- Now £8.2m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 108
- Deferred income
- ▼27%
- Now £690k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Hodge Jones & Allen Trustees Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors 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 Apr 2024 (profit £764k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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