PRIME LIFE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-14 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
+41.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£95M
+7.3% vs 2024
Employees
2,781
+0.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£11M
+44.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PRIME LIFE LIMITED 1994-04-14 → present
- UNICARE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 1993-01-14 → 1994-04-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £101,845,000 | £112,784,000 | |
| Operating profit | £11,012,000 | £14,441,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £7,779,000 | £11,262,000 | |
| Net profit | £5,365,000 | £6,970,000 | |
| Cash | £5,516,000 | £7,799,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £153,870,000 | £158,700,000 | |
| Net assets | £88,433,000 | £94,924,000 | |
| Equity | £88,433,000 | £94,924,000 | |
| Average employees | 2,758 | 2,781 | |
| Wages | £54,137,000 | £61,678,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 10.8% | 12.8% | |
| Net margin | 5.3% | 6.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.2% | 9.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 48.6% | 46.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.73x | 1.82x | |
| Interest cover | 3.26x | 4.62x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the balance sheet date, the company had a significant positive cash balance and net current asset position. At the time of signing these accounts, the directors have considered the effect on the going concern position. The financial forecasts prepared by the directors show that the company will be able to operate within the facilities available to it, specifically the long term loan of £46.7m, of which £36.4m is due for repayment in September 2027. The directors consider that the company will continue to operate for a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing these accounts. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- PRIME LIFE LIMITED · parent
- Wellspring Centres Limited 100%
- Collegia Care Limited 100%
- Kilnair Limited 100%
- Trentside Care Limited 100%
- Mountforest Limited 100%
- Drillstyle Limited 50%
- Barons Park Nursing Home Limited 100%
- Greenacres Nursing Homes Limited 100%
- Lutterworth Country House Care Home Limited 100%
- Springhill Care Group Limited 100%
- Springhill House (Accrington) Limited 100%
- Birch Green Care Centre Limited 100%
- Riversway Care Limited 100%
- Carefore Limited 100%
- Prague Properties Limited 100%
- Brownfox Quality Care Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On 31 July 2024, as part of a group reorganisation, the company acquired the trade and certain assets of Brownfox Quality Care Limited by way of a dividend in specie.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAIRSINE, Janet Elizabeth | Secretary | 2007-09-17 | — | British |
| CHOUDHRY, Nahila | Director | 2025-10-06 | Aug 1985 | British |
| HAIRSINE, Janet Elizabeth | Director | 2007-09-17 | Jul 1977 | British |
| VAN HERREWEGE, Simon James | Director | 2017-11-24 | Dec 1980 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRYANT, Michael | Secretary | 1995-08-05 | 2000-05-31 |
| SHACKLOCK, Robert William | Secretary | 1993-09-01 | 1995-07-04 |
| WARNER, Roderick Garth Freeman | Secretary | 2000-05-31 | 2007-09-17 |
| WARNER, Roderick Garth Freeman | Secretary | 1993-01-19 | 1993-09-01 |
| SPENCER COMPANY FORMATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1993-01-14 | 1993-01-19 |
| BARRETT, Andrew John | Director | 1997-08-08 | 2001-04-03 |
| BEECROFT, Paul Adrian Barlow | Director | 1993-08-04 | 1997-08-08 |
| BRYANT, Michael | Director | 1995-03-30 | 2000-05-31 |
| CAMWELL, Sarah Jane | Director | 2002-10-01 | 2017-08-09 |
| DAWSON, Benedicto | Director | 2002-10-01 | 2026-01-12 |
| HACK, Ruth | Director | 2005-06-06 | 2023-05-30 |
| JOHNSON, Julie Margaret | Director | 2002-10-01 | 2005-03-15 |
| SHACKLOCK, Robert William | Director | 1993-01-19 | 1995-07-04 |
| VAN HERREWEGE, Peter Alexander | Director | 1993-01-19 | 2025-09-24 |
| WARNER, Roderick Garth Freeman | Director | — | 2008-03-07 |
| WOOD, James Damon | Director | 2002-03-31 | 2022-06-24 |
| SPENCER COMPANY FORMATIONS (DELAWARE) INC | Corporate Nominee Director | 1993-01-14 | 1993-01-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dmwsl 532 Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-06-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 357 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-09-24 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-09-24 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-02 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-24 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-09-24 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-09-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-07-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+10.7%
£101,845,000 £112,784,000
-
Cash
+41.4%
£5,516,000 £7,799,000
-
Net assets
+7.3%
£88,433,000 £94,924,000
-
Employees
+0.8%
2,758 2,781
-
Operating profit
+31.1%
£11,012,000 £14,441,000
-
Profit before tax
+44.8%
£7,779,000 £11,262,000
-
Wages
+13.9%
£54,137,000 £61,678,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers