DALE FARMING LIMITED
Company number 08237397 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Dale Farming Limited has built a strategically defensible position through vertical integration and ethical differentiation, transforming from near-insolvency to a £5.2M equity business by 2024. However, the £1.35M net asset erosion in FY2025, persistent cash fragility, and surging debtor balances signal that the business has reached a strategic inflection point where its traditional operating model may be under unsustainable pressure. The path forward requires converting ethical positioning into monetised premiumisation, addressing working capital fragility as an existential priority, and formalising governance structures to protect against key-person risk—all while navigating the structural margin compression that defines UK dairy farming.
Shareholders' funds
£3,826,147
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is farming
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2012-10-02
- Employees
- 30 (2025 accounts · was 32 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Stockery Park Farm, Holmes Chapel Road, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, CW4 8AS
- Postcode
- CW4 8AS
- Capital
- 3,001,540 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 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
- 2026-07-25
- Next due by
- 2027-08-08
Nature of business (SIC)
- 1410 Raising of dairy cattle
- 10511 Liquid milk and cream production
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
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Contact details
- Website
- dalefarming.co.uk
- Phone
- 01477533239
We are a Cheshire based, family-run business which pushes for high standards of animal welfare with minimal environmental impact. We do this with a team of people that genuinely care.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| STOCKERY PARK FARM LIMITED | 2013-12-17 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| CONGLETON FARM DAVENPORT, CONGLETON, CHESHIRE, CW12 4SS, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-10-10 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 41 similar companies in CW
The largest employer among its local peers (30 staff).
Trading since 2012.
No.4 of the largest raising of dairy cattle companies in Crewe →
Competitors Crewe
This company ranks 4 among raising of dairy cattle in Crewe.
The class of 2012
21%
of the 492,231 companies incorporated in 2012 are still active today; 76% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2025-04-29
- Where
- Staffordshire (1), Shropshire (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF706398 | Staffordshire | Leasehold | 2025-04-29 | — |
| SL275014 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2022-01-25 | — |
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