BURNTHEBOOK LIMITED
Company number 04480689 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Burnthebook Limited is an established but small-scale software development and IT services business operating from Derby, demonstrating 22 years of trading resilience but currently facing performance headwinds evidenced by an 18% decline in net assets and 46% cash depletion in FY2025. While the business has built meaningful equity over the long term (growing from £21k net assets in 2017 to £81k in 2025), its current trajectory lags sector benchmarks, with below-average liquidity ratios, atypically high debtor concentration, and an unusual stock position for a software company suggesting a hybrid business model. The company's competitive position as a micro-agency in a regional market provides stability through lower cost structures but limits growth potential against larger, specialist competitors in an increasingly challenging UK tech services landscape.
Shareholders' funds
£69,076
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-07-09
- Employees
- 8 (2026 accounts)
- Registered office
- Suite 1.1, 11 Mallard Way, Pride Park, Derby, England, DE24 8GX
- Postcode
- DE24 8GX
- Capital
- 20 GBP
- Accounts category
- Unaudited Abridged
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-07-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 62012 Business and domestic software development
- 62090 Other information technology service activities
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA510532 (Tier 1), registered since 2019.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- http://www.burnthebook.co.uk
Previous registered addresses 7
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 11 MALLARD WAY, PRIDE PARK, DERBY, DE24 8GX, ENGLAND | 2020-07-09 |
| 25 BRUNEL PARKWAY, PRIDE PARK, DERBY, DERBYSHIRE, DE24 8HR | 2015-08-20 |
| 25 BRUNEL PARKWAY, PRIDE PARK, DERBY, DERBYSHIRE, DE24 8HR, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-07-30 |
| 5 PROSPECT PLACE, MILLENNIUM WAY PRIDE PARK, DERBY, DERBYSHIRE, DE24 8HG | 2011-09-28 |
| 4 WOBURN HOUSE, VERNON GATE, DERBY, DE1 1UL | 2006-06-01 |
| 2ND FLOOR, 1 WOBURN HOUSE, VERNON GATE, DERBY, DE1 1UL | 2002-07-22 |
| WHARF LODGE 112 MANSFIELD ROAD, DERBY, DERBYSHIRE DE1 3RA | 2002-07-18 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 345 similar companies in DE
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (8 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2002.
Competitors Derby
This company ranks 75 among business and domestic software development in Derby.
The class of 2002
48%
of the 799 companies in this sector incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 50% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.