What a buyer sees
SNARESBROOK PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
Primary education · London · 01888014
27staff · FY2025
41years trading
—oldest owner on file
£316kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
8.8× spread£1.2M£11M
You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 3 figures against 67 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff27
202130 → 272025
Cash at bank£316k
2021£370k → £316k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£11,680£46,833£86,178
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
94299
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
71462
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
419161
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 6
- Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £1.2M and £11M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The last accounts went in 11 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.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 31 to 27A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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 1
- 41 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 57since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 2026-08-14 | not filed | 27 | £316k |
| 2023-08-31 | — | not filed | 31 | £365k |
| 2022-08-31 | — | not filed | 30 | £431k |
| 2021-08-31 | — | not filed | 30 | £370k |