MADRESFIELD EARLY YEARS CENTRE LIMITED
Company number 03597604 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Madresfield Early Years Centre Limited is a financial outlier in the UK nursery sector, demonstrating exceptional balance sheet strength with £1.2M in equity, negligible debt, and a current ratio approaching 10:1 — metrics that far exceed typical industry standards where operators commonly struggle with thin margins and property-related leverage. The company's 27-year trading history, property ownership, and consistent retained earnings accumulation position it as a premium independent provider with significant strategic optionality. However, the concentrated ownership structure, substantial cash reserves requiring deployment rationale, and ongoing sector headwinds around staffing costs and government funding adequacy present risks that warrant monitoring despite the undeniably robust financial position.
Shareholders' funds
£1,202,692
Balance sheet as at 2025-08-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1998-07-14
- Employees
- 60 (2025 accounts · was 63 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Worcester Early Years Centre Manor Farm, Malvern Road, Lower Wick, Worcester, United Kingdom, WR2 4BS
- Postcode
- WR2 4BS
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-08-31
- Next due by
- 2027-05-31
- Financial year end
- 31 August
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-14
- Next due by
- 2027-07-28
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 7 current · 7 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by ANCHORAGE HOLDINGS WORCESTER LIMITED — since 2025-02-27
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA650036 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 848 similar companies in WR
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (60 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1998.
Competitors Worcester
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5. TPI SOAR LTD
This company ranks 60 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Worcester.
The class of 1998
29%
of the 4,095 companies in this sector incorporated in 1998 are still active today; 69% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.