TIGERS AT THEALE LIMITED
Company number 04344705 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Tigers At Theale Limited demonstrates financial performance significantly above sector norms for a single-site nursery operator, with net assets growth of 221% since 2018 and a cash position of £430k that far exceeds the typically cash-constrained nursery sector. The freehold ownership of premises (carrying value £815k) provides a structural competitive advantage by eliminating rental costs that burden most competitors, whilst the group affiliation with Tigers Day Nursery Limited offers operational scale benefits. However, single-site concentration risk and the sector-wide pressures of real-terms funding erosion and wage inflation will test the sustainability of current margins, particularly as government entitlement expansion reshapes the market from 2024 onwards.
Shareholders' funds
£946,264
Balance sheet as at 2024-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of pre-primary education.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-12-21
- Employees
- 37 (2025 accounts · was 36 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 264 Banbury Road, Oxford, England, OX2 7DY
- Postcode
- OX2 7DY
- Capital
- 110 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-12-21
- Next due by
- 2027-01-04
Nature of business (SIC)
- 85100 Pre-primary education
Officers 4 current · 5 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by TIGERS DAY NURSERY LIMITED — since 2018-01-03
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB393978 (Tier 2), registered since 2022.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| BRIGHTSTART DAY NURSERIES LTD | 2018-05-08 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 16-18 CHURCH STREET, THEALE, READING, BERKSHIRE, RG7 5BZ | 2019-04-03 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 57 similar companies in OX
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (37 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2001.
No.4 of the largest pre-primary education companies in Oxford →
Competitors Oxford
This company ranks 4 among pre-primary education in Oxford.
The class of 2001
40%
of the 80,160 companies incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 57% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2025-04-10
- Price paid, where recorded
- £2,260,000
- Where
- West Berkshire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BK99938 | West Berkshire | Freehold | 2025-04-10 | £1,560,000 |
| BK157433 | West Berkshire | Freehold | 2018-01-18 | £700,000 |
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