What a buyer sees
ASHTON LODGE LIMITED
Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled · Englefield Green · 03057067
112staff · FY2025
31years trading
—oldest owner on file
£240kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.4Mfor the year to 2025
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff112
202282 → 1122025
Cash at bank£240k
2022£346k → £240k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£75,327above almost all
£29,354£44,164£62,339
Debtor daysdays32in the top quarter
112041
Creditor daysdays40
71231
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
62476
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 3
- The last accounts went in 15 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 32 against 20 for the middle of 84 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 3
- 31 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 101 to 112Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 75,327 against 44,164 for the middle of 117 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 65since 2008
- 61since 2021
- 36since 2021
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-31 | 2026-07-02 | £8.4M | 112 | £240k |
| 2024-03-31 | — | £7.7M | 101 | £368k |
| 2023-03-31 | — | £5.4M | 87 | £304k |
| 2022-03-31 | — | £4.1M | 82 | £346k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.4M£7.6M
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.