Lapwing Fine Foods Limited
Registered name: LAPWING FINE FOODS LIMITED
Part of Vanellus Limited groupLapwing Fine Foods Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 May 2025 show net assets of -£1.2m and 8 employees.
Lapwing Fine Foods Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 May 2025 showed net assets of −£1.2m and 8 employees. The company is classified under “wholesale of fruit and vegetables” and is based in Doncaster; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active - Proposal to Strike off
- Location
- Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- 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
Revenue not disclosed
Lapwing Fine Foods Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 May 2025 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 8
- Net assets
- −£1.2m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 May 2022 | 31 May 2023 | 31 May 2024 | 31 May 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼25% | ▲11.1% | ▼20% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £37k | £23.2k | £12.8k | £18.5k |
| Net assets | −£569k | −£753k | −£1m | −£1.2m |
| Fixed assets | £299k | £213k | £148k | £72k |
| Current assets | £103k | £186k | £105k | £196k |
| Debtors | £3.9k | £308 | £1.1k | £0 |
| Deferred income | £1.5k | £2k | £2k | £9.5k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
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 −£1.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▲45%
- Now £18.5k
- Headcount
- ▼20%
- Now 8
- Deferred income
- ▲375%
- Now £9.5k
- Fixed assets
- ▼51%
- Now £72k
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
- Vanellus Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- The Lapwing Estate Limited75–100%
- Lapwing Fine Foods Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (4)
- Carbon Char LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lapwing Energy LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lapwing Farms LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pollybell Farms 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 May 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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