Buried Treasure Productions Ltd
Registered name: BURIED TREASURE PRODUCTIONS LTD
Part of Character 7 Limited groupBuried Treasure Productions Ltd made £3m revenue and £10k profit in the year to 19 Jun 2024. read from filing text
Buried Treasure Productions Ltd’s revenue grew 27% to £3m in the year to 19 Jun 2024, with £10k profit and 1 employee. The company is classified under “television programme production activities” and is based in Borehamwood; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Borehamwood, East of England
- Age
- 5 yrs · since 2020
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 company's immediate”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 19 Jun 2022 | 19 Jun 2023 | 19 Jun 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £38.5m | £2.4m | £3m |
| Cost of sales | £46.2m | £4.2m | £3.2m |
| Gross profit | −£7.7m | −£1.8m | −£263k |
| Profit before tax | −£7.7m | −£1.6m | −£257k |
| Profit after tax | £12.3k | £2.7k | £10k |
| Profit (best available) | £12.3k | £2.7k | £10k |
| Staff costs | £3.9m | £614k | — |
| Employees (average) | 58 | 13 | 1 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0% | 0.1% | 0.3% |
| Gross margin | −20% | −76.3% | −8.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £663k | £181k | £3m |
| Profit per employee | £212 | £208 | £10k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▲26.8% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲270.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▼92.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.4m | £1.1m | £1.5m |
| Net assets | £12.3k | £15k | £25k |
| Current assets | £12.5m | £6.9m | £2.5m |
| Debtors | £8.2m | £5.8m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £1.4m | £1.5m | — |
| Cash from operations | −£4.4m | £11m | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.3%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −8.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £3m
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £10k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- 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
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 35.6%
- 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
- ▲67%
- Now £25k
- Cash at bank
- ▲36%
- Now £1.5m
- Headcount
- ▼92%
- Now 1
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Character 7 Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Buried Treasure Productions Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Sunburned 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 19 Jun 2024 (profit £10k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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