GOODSHAPE UK LIMITED
Company number 05297929 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
GoodShape UK Limited is a 20-year-old absence management business undergoing a significant strategic pivot from a service-delivery model to a proprietary SaaS platform. The 2023 financial year demonstrated encouraging operational progress—gross margins improved by 46% to 54%, average contract values rose 17%, and net losses narrowed by 36%—but the company remains deeply loss-making with £4.96M of red ink on £6.1M revenue and a capital structure dependent on related-party debt. The macro tailwind from the UK's sickness absence crisis is real and growing, and GoodShape's data-driven positioning is strategically sound, but the business must demonstrate that its mid-2024 breakeven target is achievable and that its SaaS margins can converge toward industry norms of 65-80% before it can be considered a sustainably competitive player in the HR tech market.
Shareholders' funds
-£5,916,751
Balance sheet as at 2016-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2004-11-26
- Registered office
- 10 Upper Berkeley Street, London, England, W1H 7PE
- Postcode
- W1H 7PE
- Capital
- 42 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
- 2026-03-04
- Next due by
- 2027-03-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 78300 Human resources provision and management of human resources functions
Officers 3 current · 20 resigned
Public contracts won 8
£1,493,450 total awarded value where published.
Showing the 5 most recent of 8.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z9006774 (Tier 2), registered since 2005.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- goodshape.com
- Phone
- 03031231113
Transform workforce health with GoodShape’s AI platform, reducing absence, cutting costs, and boosting productivity through early risk identification and tailored support. Achieve measurable ROI today.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| FIRST CARE LIMITED | 2021-10-27 |
| HEALTH AND ABSENCE LIMITED | 2007-08-13 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL TOWER, 91 WATERLOO ROAD, LONDON, SE1 8RT | 2017-06-07 |
| 9TH FLOOR CAPITAL TOWER, 91 WATERLOO ROAD, LONDON, SE1 8RT | 2007-03-31 |
| CAPITAL TOWER, 91 WATERLOO ROAD, LONDON, SE1 8RT | 2006-06-15 |
| ISIS HOUSE, 67-69 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, LONDON SE1 0HX | 2006-06-08 |
| 141 THURLEIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW12 8TX | 2005-01-29 |
Among its peers
Among the oldest 25%
of 273 similar companies in W, trading since 2004
Competitors London
This company ranks 183 among human resources provision and management of human resources functions in London.
The class of 2004
37%
of the 135,818 companies incorporated in 2004 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.