DARWEN SUN LEISURE LIMITED
Company number 01381798 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Darwen Sun Leisure operates in a structurally declining sub-sector but has delivered exceptional financial performance that significantly outpaces typical industry benchmarks, with net assets growing from £41,813 (2018) to £194,921 (2025) — a 366% increase driven by consistent profitability and property revaluation gains. The company's property-backed, cash-rich balance sheet (£284,323 cash, £141,112 investment properties) provides resilience that most independent tanning operators lack, but the fundamental secular decline in sunbed usage presents an inescapable long-term strategic challenge that financial strength alone cannot resolve.
Shareholders' funds
£194,921
Balance sheet as at 2025-07-31
What it does
The principle activity of the company during the period under review was the operation of a tanning shop.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1978-08-02
- Employees
- 2 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 56/58 Blackburn Road, Darwen, Lancs, BB3 1QJ
- Postcode
- BB3 1QJ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-07-31
- Next due by
- 2027-04-30
- Financial year end
- 31 July
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-14
- Next due by
- 2027-08-28
Nature of business (SIC)
- 96020 Hairdressing and other beauty treatment
Officers 2 current · 2 resigned
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| G. & A. DESIGN SERVICES LIMITED | 1986-10-08 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 271 similar companies in BB
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1978.
No.4 of the largest hairdressing and other beauty treatment companies in Blackburn →
Competitors Blackburn
This company ranks 4 among hairdressing and other beauty treatment in Blackburn.
The class of 1978
51%
of the 8,636 companies incorporated in 1978 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.