Nesta Challenges
Registered name: NESTA CHALLENGES
Part of Nesta groupNesta Challenges made £535k revenue and £320k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Nesta Challenges’s revenue fell 40% to £535k in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £320k profit. The company is classified under “other service activities” and is based in London; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London
- Age
- 4 yrs · since 2022
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £891k | £535k |
| Cost of sales | −£280k | −£202k |
| Gross profit | £612k | £333k |
| Operating profit | £600k | £320k |
| Profit before tax | £600k | £320k |
| Profit after tax | £600k | £320k |
| Profit (best available) | £600k | £320k |
| Employees (average) | — | — |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 67.3% | 59.9% |
| Gross margin | 68.6% | 62.3% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼40% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼46.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 59.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 62.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
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- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
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- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Nestaultimate parent75–100%
- Nesta Challengesthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (6)
- Behavioural Insights LtdFigures not disclosed
- Nesta Enterprises LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nesta GP LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nesta Mission Studio LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nesta Partners LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Nesta Pri LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £320k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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