PROMETHEUS SAFE & SECURE LTD
Company number 08818166 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Prometheus Safe & Secure Ltd is a financially strong, mid-market non-emergency patient transport provider that has grown revenue rapidly and maintained a highly liquid balance sheet ahead of its December 2022 acquisition by RCI Group. Within the fragmented and cost-sensitive UK NEPTS sector, it competes as a niche regional leader rather than a national consolidator, with its principal exposure being public-sector commissioning and contract retention. Its robust equity position, disciplined cash management, and group backing position it well to navigate sector pressures such as workforce shortages, fuel inflation, and fleet decarbonisation.
Shareholders' funds
£6,427,992
Balance sheet as at 2022-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company during the year was provision of patient transport services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2013-12-17
- Employees
- 219 (2022 accounts)
- Registered office
- Unit 110, Fort Dunlop Fort Parkway, Birmingham, England, B24 9FD
- Postcode
- B24 9FD
- Capital
- 120 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-04-06
- Next due by
- 2027-04-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 52290 Other transportation support activities
Officers 4 current · 8 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by RCI SERVICES LIMITED — since 2022-12-17
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 3
£50,390,000 total awarded value where published.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder).
Care Quality Commission 1 location
Regulated by CQC — 1 rated Good.
Using CQC information, © Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA049039 (Tier 1), registered since 2014.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
3.02%
Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 311 similar companies in B
The largest employer among its local peers (219 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2013.
No.1 of the largest other transportation support activities companies in Birmingham →
Competitors Birmingham
This company ranks 1 among other transportation support activities in Birmingham.
The class of 2013
26%
of the 767 companies in this sector incorporated in 2013 are still active today; 68% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.