KIDS PLANET DAY NURSERIES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-25 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£22M
+155.7% vs 2024
Net assets
-£4M
+54.3% vs 2024
Employees
5,933
+20.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£5M
+45.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- KIDS PLANET DAY NURSERIES LIMITED 2008-07-24 → present
- PLANET KIDS LIMITED 2008-05-19 → 2008-07-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £143,773,000 | £204,556,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£7,268,000 | -£1,787,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£8,305,000 | -£4,522,000 | |
| Net profit | -£8,137,000 | £4,166,000 | |
| Cash | £8,508,000 | £21,754,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £51,228,000 | £71,513,000 | |
| Net assets | -£7,668,000 | -£3,502,000 | |
| Equity | -£7,668,000 | -£3,502,000 | |
| Average employees | 4,925 | 5,933 | |
| Wages | £82,069,000 | £112,924,000 |
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 | -5.1% | -0.9% | |
| Net margin | -5.7% | 2.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -14.2% | -2.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.10x | 0.13x | |
| Interest cover | -6.05x | -0.50x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a strong expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements. The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the directors consider to be appropriate.”
Group structure
- KIDS PLANET DAY NURSERIES LIMITED · parent
- Newlands Nursery School Limited 100%
- Frodsham Happy Bunnies Limited 100%
- Childsplay of Liverpool Limited 100%
- Kids Planet Propco Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During the financial year, the Group completed 20 acquisitions, comprising 44 nursery settings, partly funded by pre-agreed Committed Acquisition Facilities with Kids Planet's primary lender, and partly through the execution of a sale and leaseback transaction in July 2024 as set out later in this report.”
- “Subsequent to the year end, the Group has completed 9 acquisitions, representing 16 nurseries.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERTON, Colin James | Director | 2023-09-18 | Jun 1977 | British |
| KACZMARSKA, Lucy Marie | Director | 2013-07-25 | Jul 1986 | British |
| ROBERTS, Clare Bernadette | Director | 2008-08-21 | Feb 1977 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBAN, Bernadette | Secretary | 2016-08-04 | 2021-12-01 |
| BARKER, Ben Julius | Director | 2016-08-04 | 2018-02-20 |
| CROSSWELL, James Nicholas | Director | 2020-06-29 | 2022-06-29 |
| ELLIS, Kieron Gordon | Director | 2019-12-17 | 2023-09-18 |
| ELLIS, Kieron Gordon | Director | 2019-12-17 | 2019-12-17 |
| GREEN, Rebecca Anne | Director | 2016-04-25 | 2019-05-03 |
| HOBAN, Bernadette Ann | Director | 2011-04-01 | 2016-08-04 |
| HOBAN, John | Director | 2008-05-19 | 2023-10-16 |
| MCMENEMY, Mark | Director | 2016-08-04 | 2021-02-11 |
| MEHTA, Pinesh | Director | 2018-02-20 | 2021-12-01 |
| THORLEY, Andrew Mark | Director | 2019-05-04 | 2019-11-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traust Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-12-01 | Active |
| Bgf Investments Lp | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2016-08-04 | Ceased 2021-12-01 |
| Mrs Clare Roberts | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-08-04 | Ceased 2021-12-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 166 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-04-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-10-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-03-22 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-03-22 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-03-22 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-01-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-09 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type group | |
| 2022-09-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with made up date | |
| 2022-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-04-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-04-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
+42.3%
£143,773,000 £204,556,000
-
Cash
+155.7%
£8,508,000 £21,754,000
-
Net assets
+54.3%
-£7,668,000 -£3,502,000
-
Employees
+20.5%
4,925 5,933
-
Operating profit
+75.4%
-£7,268,000 -£1,787,000
-
Profit before tax
+45.6%
-£8,305,000 -£4,522,000
-
Wages
+37.6%
£82,069,000 £112,924,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers