EXTEL LIMITED
Company number 03275554 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
EXTEL Limited presents a mixed risk profile: a well-established care operator with strong occupancy, growing revenues, and a substantial net asset base, but facing significant margin compression and a dramatic decline in cash reserves. The 62.6% reduction in cash alongside a 50% increase in liabilities and meaningful profitability deterioration are the primary concerns requiring immediate investigation. The new HSBC facility provides some reassurance of lender confidence, but the terms and underlying cash flow dynamics must be understood before forming a complete assessment. Overall, the business appears operationally sound but financially stretched relative to its recent historical position.
Shareholders' funds
£8,444,827
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the provision of high quality care and support services to people with challenging behaviour, both within in its residential care homes and those under the supported living service in Birmingham and neighbouring areas.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1996-11-08
- Employees
- 356 (2025 accounts · was 349 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Primrose Hill Farm Meadowsweet Avenue, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands, B38 9QW
- Postcode
- B38 9QW
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 4 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
- 2026-08-02
- Next due by
- 2027-08-16
Nature of business (SIC)
- 87200 Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse
Officers 5 current · 4 resigned
Care Quality Commission 9 locations
Regulated by CQC — 9 rated Good.
All locations and inspection reports are on this provider's CQC page.
Using CQC information, © Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2766577 (Tier 2), registered since 2011.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Political donations 4
£12,190 in registered political donations since 2015.
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Conservative and Unionist Party
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Conservative and Unionist Party
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Conservative and Unionist Party
Showing the 3 most recent of 4.
Source: the Electoral Commission's register of donations — this company's full record, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Gender pay gap
0%
Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · in the top 10% for parity
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| CASHS BUSINESS CENTRE 1ST FLOOR, 228 WIDDRINGTON ROAD, COVENTRY, WEST MIDLANDS, CV1 4PB, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-12-27 |
| 1A STATION STREET EAST, FOLESHILL, COVENTRY, CV6 5FL | 2012-10-30 |
| 52 MUCKLOW HILL, HALESOWEN, BIRMINGHAM B62 8BL | 1997-01-10 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 256 similar companies in B
2nd largest employer among its local peers (356 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1996.
Competitors Birmingham
This company ranks 1 among residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse in Birmingham.
The class of 1996
45%
of the 41,233 companies incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 12 titles
- Freehold
- 4
- Leasehold
- 8
- Most recent registration
- 2016-09-28
- Price paid, where recorded
- £657,000
- Where
- West Midlands (7), Worcestershire (3), Warwickshire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WK486524 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2016-09-28 | — |
| MM71311 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2016-06-08 | — |
| WK484683 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2016-06-08 | — |
| MM68817 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2016-04-19 | — |
| MM56870 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2015-08-12 | — |
| WR160377 | Worcestershire | Leasehold | 2015-08-12 | — |
| MM56833 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2015-08-11 | — |
| WM396351 | West Midlands | Freehold | 2015-08-11 | £82,000 |
| WR160356 | Worcestershire | Leasehold | 2015-08-11 | — |
| WM900789 | West Midlands | Freehold | 2015-08-10 | £575,000 |
| WR72733 | Worcestershire | Freehold | 2015-08-10 | — |
| WM332958 | West Midlands | Freehold | 2007-06-13 | — |
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