Border Caravans Limited
Registered name: BORDER CARAVANS LIMITED
Part of Border Caravans Holdings Limited groupBorder Caravans Limited made £11.8m revenue and £301k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Border Caravans Limited’s revenue grew 1% to £11.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £301k profit and 98 employees. The company is classified under “recreational vehicle parks, trailer parks and camping grounds” and is based in Dumfries; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dumfries, Scotland
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- 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 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | £11.6m | £11.1m | £11.7m | £11.8m |
| Cost of sales | — | £4.5m | £4.2m | £4.7m | £5.2m |
| Gross profit | — | £7.1m | £6.9m | £7m | £6.5m |
| Operating profit | — | £1.5m | £989k | £1.1m | £661k |
| Profit before tax | — | £1.2m | £561k | £724k | £361k |
| Profit after tax | — | £905k | £424k | £596k | £301k |
| Profit (best available) | — | £905k | £424k | £596k | £301k |
| Employees (average) | 1 | 1 | 103 | 106 | 98 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | — | 7.8% | 3.8% | 5.1% | 2.6% |
| Gross margin | — | 61.2% | 61.9% | 59.9% | 55.5% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £11.6m | £108k | £110k | £120k |
| Profit per employee | — | £905k | £4.1k | £5.6k | £3.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | ▼3.9% | ▲5% | ▲0.7% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▼53.2% | ▲40.6% | ▼49.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | ▲10200% | ▲2.9% | ▼7.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Net assets | £3.5m | £3.4m | £3.5m | £3.2m | £2.8m |
| Fixed assets | — | £2.6m | £2.6m | £2.6m | £2.6m |
| Current assets | £5.7m | £6.1m | £5.8m | £6.1m | £6.6m |
| Debtors | £515k | £376k | £1.1m | £1.1m | £1.6m |
| Deferred income | — | £7.1k | £7.7k | £14.9k | £7.9k |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 55.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £120k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.1k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 22%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.3%
- 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
- ▼11%
- Now £2.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▼8%
- Now 98
- Deferred income
- ▼47%
- Now £7.9k
- Fixed assets
- 0%
- Now £2.6m
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
- Border Caravans Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Border Caravans Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (4)
- Portzim LimitedRev. £7m · Profit £357k
- Mouswald Park LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Riverside Caravan Park (Hawick) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Westlands Country Park 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 Dec 2025 (profit £301k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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