ACADEMY LIFTS LIMITED
Company number 04391901 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Academy Lifts is a small, regionally anchored lift maintenance and modernisation specialist with a long operating history and an asset-light, safety-critical service niche. Its balance sheet remains solvent, but declining net assets and cash, high debtor balances, factoring reliance and owner/key-person concentration constrain growth without tighter working-capital and governance discipline. The strategic agenda should prioritise recurring contract density, modernisation cross-sell, operational KPIs and succession/ownership resilience.
Shareholders' funds
£163,428
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-03-11
- Employees
- 8 (2025 accounts · was 11 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Unit 19 Adlington South Business Park, Huyton Road, Adlington, England, PR7 4HJ
- Postcode
- PR7 4HJ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-08
- Next due by
- 2027-10-22
Nature of business (SIC)
- 33120 Repair of machinery
- 33140 Repair of electrical equipment
- 33170 Repair and maintenance of other transport equipment not elsewhere classified
- 43999 Other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 6 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by LIFT MAINTENANCE SOLUTIONS LTD — since 2026-03-31
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z2387576 (Tier 2), registered since 2010.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- academylifts.co.uk
- Phone
- 01925242227, 01925232321
Academy Lifts offer a high level of expertise for all your passenger lift repairs, lift maintenance, and lift modernisation across the North of England.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ACADEMY SERVICES (LIFT DIVISION)LIMITED | 2016-09-27 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNITS 4-6 SANKEY BRIDGES, INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, LIVERPOOL ROAD, WARRINGTON CHESHIRE WA5 1QQ | 2006-05-30 |
Among its peers
2nd largest employer
of 36 similar companies in PR, with 8 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
No.11 of the largest repair of machinery companies in Preston →
Competitors Preston
This company ranks 11 among repair of machinery in Preston.
The class of 2002
39%
of the 122,928 companies incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
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