EQUITA LIMITED
Company number 03168371 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Equita Limited has re-established itself as a profitable operating unit within the Capita group structure, with FY2025 operating margins of 18.8% demonstrating the underlying earnings power of its specialised enforcement and debt recovery franchise. The company's growth trajectory depends on converting its public-sector relationships and regulatory expertise into technology-enabled, diversified service offerings, while actively managing the concentration and intercompany risks inherent in its current operating model. Strategic priority should be given to resolving intercompany financial dependencies, investing in digital capabilities, and building contractual and reputational resilience against political and regulatory headwinds.
Shareholders' funds
£7,224,652
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1996-02-29
- Employees
- 115 (2025 accounts · was 165 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 6 Europa Boulevard, Birkenhead, England, CH41 4PE
- Postcode
- CH41 4PE
- Capital
- 5,557,568 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 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
- 2026-01-14
- Next due by
- 2027-01-28
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current · 31 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by COLX LIMITED — since 2023-07-31
Controlled by CAPITA HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 7
£36,939,820 total awarded value where published.
Showing the 5 most recent of 7.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder).
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z5502302 (Tier 2), registered since 2001.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- equita.co.uk
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| EQUITABLE REVENUE HOLDINGS LIMITED | 1999-07-30 |
| PRETTY 300 LIMITED | 1996-12-31 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 71 VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON SW1H 0XA | 2001-01-16 |
| CAPITA I R G PLC BOURNE HOUSE, 34 BECKENHAM ROAD, BECKENHAM, KENT BR3 4TU | 2000-12-12 |
| 71 VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, SW1H 0XA | 2000-10-10 |
| 53 NORTHAMPTON ROAD, MARKET HARBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE LE16 9HB | 1999-03-17 |
| ELM HOUSE, 25 ELM STREET, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK IP1 2AD | 1997-01-03 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,187 similar companies in CH
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (115 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1996.
Competitors Chester
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2. COLX LIMITED
This company ranks 9 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Chester.
The class of 1996
33%
of the 2,496 companies in this sector incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 66% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.