Tove Trading Limited
Registered name: TOVE TRADING LIMITED
Part of Tove Learning Trust groupTove Trading Limited made £939k revenue and a £212k loss in the year to 31 Aug 2024.
Tove Trading Limited’s revenue was £939k in the year to 31 Aug 2024, with a loss of £212k and 79 employees. The company is classified under “operation of arts facilities” and is based in Milton Keynes; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Milton Keynes, South East
- Age
- 4 yrs · since 2022
- 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 Aug 2023 | 31 Aug 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £343k | £939k |
| Cost of sales | −£9.9k | −£65.5k |
| Gross profit | £334k | £874k |
| Operating profit | −£18.9k | −£212k |
| Profit before tax | −£18.9k | −£212k |
| Profit after tax | −£18.9k | −£212k |
| Profit (best available) | −£18.9k | −£212k |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 79 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −5.5% | −22.5% |
| Gross margin | 97.1% | 93% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £11.9k |
| Profit per employee | — | −£2.7k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jun 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −22.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 93%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £11.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£2.7k
- 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
- —
- 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 79
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Tove Learning Trustultimate parent75–100%
- Tove Trading 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 accounts for the year to 31 Aug 2024 (profit −£212k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 14 Oct 2026
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