BRADT TRAVEL GUIDES LTD.
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Executive summary
Bradt Travel Guides occupies a respected niche position within UK travel publishing, with a distinctive brand built on specialist destination coverage. Financially, the business demonstrates long-term equity growth and conservative leverage, but faces mounting pressures evident in its sharply declining cash position (down 74% from the 2020 peak) and modest estimated profitability. The post-COVID normalisation, combined with sector-wide cost inflation and digital disruption, presents significant headwinds for a business of this scale. While the balance sheet remains solvent with reasonable working capital, the trajectory of cash depletion and limited visible investment in digital capabilities raises questions about the company's adaptive capacity in a structurally challenging market.
Shareholders' funds
£535,446
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-01-10
- Employees
- 16 (2025 accounts · was 17 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 31a High Street, Chesham, England, HP5 1BW
- Postcode
- HP5 1BW
- Capital
- 99,692 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-25
- Next due by
- 2027-06-08
Nature of business (SIC)
- 58110 Book publishing
Officers 4 current · 13 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by BRADT HOLDINGS LTD — since 2022-02-21
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| IDC HOUSE THE VALE, CHALFONT ST. PETER, GERRARDS CROSS, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, SL9 9RZ | 2019-03-19 |
| 23 HIGH STREET, CHALFONT ST PETER, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, SL9 9QE | 2011-05-12 |
| 19 HIGH STREET, CHALFONT ST PETER, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, SL9 9QE | 2005-07-23 |
| CRWYS HOUSE, 33 CRWYS ROAD, CARDIFF, SOUTH GLAMORGAN CF24 4YF | 2001-02-07 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 59 similar companies in HP
The largest employer among its local peers (16 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2001.
No.2 of the largest book publishing companies in High Wycombe →
Competitors High Wycombe
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1. CHUCKRA LTD
This company ranks 2 among book publishing in High Wycombe.
The class of 2001
40%
of the 80,159 companies incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 57% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.