CAVENDISH CONSULTING LIMITED
Company number 03096503 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Cavendish Consulting Limited has successfully executed a strategic transformation from a built environment specialist to an integrated communications group, delivering above-sector profitability (16.8% EBITDA margin on continuing operations versus a 12-14% median) and respectable 5.1% organic fee growth in a challenging market. The MCE acquisition extends geographic reach into Ireland at a reasonable valuation, while the employee ownership model provides meaningful retention incentives in a talent-competitive sector. However, the near-total dividend distribution policy limits retained capital for future investment, rising leverage warrants monitoring, and the group's technology proposition remains uncertain following the Crowd Technologies disposal—factors that may constrain scalability relative to better-capitalised competitors.
Shareholders' funds
£2,794,659
Balance sheet as at 2024-03-31
What it does
The Group and Company's principal activity is public affairs, government relations, corporate communications, marketing and digital consultancy.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1995-08-30
- Employees
- 138 (2024 accounts · was 123 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 8-10 Mansion House Place, London, England, EC4N 8BJ
- Postcode
- EC4N 8BJ
- Capital
- 518 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-30
- Next due by
- 2027-09-13
Nature of business (SIC)
- 70210 Public relations and communications activities
Officers 8 current · 16 resigned
Group structure 9 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 2
£1,234,020 total awarded value where published.
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Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z9262039 (Tier 2), registered since 2006.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| BUILT ENVIRONMENT COMMUNICATIONS GROUP LIMITED | 2023-06-27 |
| REMARKABLE GROUP LIMITED | 2017-11-13 |
| REMARKABLE MARKETING & DESIGN LIMITED | 2007-05-08 |
| FUSION MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED | 2004-07-28 |
| AVENUE ESTATES (SOUTHERN) LIMITED | 1999-03-03 |
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| THE PUMP HOUSE GARNIER ROAD, WINCHESTER, HAMPSHIRE, SO23 9QG | 2010-11-08 |
| THE PUMPHOUSE, GARNIER ROAD, WINCHESTER, HAMPSHIRE, SO23 9QG | 2008-11-28 |
| 11 QUEENSWAY, SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE SO14 3BL | 2008-01-03 |
| 16 BRUNSWICK PLACE, SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE SO15 2AQ | 2005-04-18 |
| 5 NORTH PARK BUSINESS CENTRE, MAYLES LANE KNOWLE, FAREHAM, HAMPSHIRE PO17 5LJ | 2004-01-13 |
| 55 THE AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE, SO17 1XQ | 2001-09-13 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 492 similar companies in EC
3rd largest employer among its local peers (138 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1995.
No.7 of the largest public relations and communications activities companies in London →
Competitors London
This company ranks 7 among public relations and communications activities in London.
The class of 1995
45%
of the 34,002 companies incorporated in 1995 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.