HUGHES DRIVER TRAINING LIMITED

Company number 04948484 ·

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Executive summary

Hughes Driver Training occupies a highly defensible niche at the nexus of vocational training and employment placement, leveraging the UK's structural HGV driver shortage. The company has demonstrated exceptional cash generation, growing its cash position to £3.36M while actively pursuing acquisitive growth, positioning it as a prime consolidator in a fragmented market.

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Shareholders' funds

£871,615

Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
2003-10-30
Employees
81 (2025 accounts)
Registered office
284 Gipsy Lane, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 9BX
Postcode
LE4 9BX
Capital
200 GBP
Accounts category
Total Exemption Full
Charges
0 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-10-31
Next due by
2028-01-31
Financial year end
30 April

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-05-06
Next due by
2027-05-20
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 78109 Other activities of employment placement agencies
  • 85530 Driving school activities

Officers 2 current · 3 resigned

Michael HUGHES Director
Appointed 2022-12-16
Carl Ross HUGHES Director
Appointed 2003-10-30

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Group structure 1 subsidiary

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Public contracts won 1

£550,960 total awarded value where published.

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Contact details

Website
hughesdrivertraining.co.uk

Start your HGV/LGV training with the UK's #1 provider of Lorry and Bus training. We don't just get you a licence, we get you a career

Previous registered addresses 4

AddressChanged on
284 GYPSY LANE LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE, LE4 9BX, UNITED KINGDOM2015-10-28
38 DEANE STREET LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE, LE11 5NQ2015-09-02
C/O W.J.HUGHES, 38 DEANE STREET, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE11 5NQ2014-05-01
169 KNIGHTTHORPE ROAD, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE, LE11 5JR2009-11-02

Among its peers

Top 5%

by shareholders' funds, of 200 similar companies in LE

Among the biggest employers among its local peers (81 staff).

Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2003.

No.10 of the largest other activities of employment placement agencies companies in Leicester →

Competitors Leicester

This company ranks 10 among other activities of employment placement agencies in Leicester.

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The class of 2003

48%

of the 448 companies in this sector incorporated in 2003 are still active today; 46% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

Property in England & Wales 1 title

Leasehold
1
Most recent registration
2021-07-29
Where
Leicester
Title numberCounty Tenure RegisteredPrice paid
LT531049 Leicester Leasehold 2021-07-29

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