BENDALLS LEISURE LIMITED
Company number 03349017 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Bendalls Leisure (Woodlands) is a well-capitalised, family-owned regional attraction demonstrating the classic financial profile of the UK theme park sector: strong asset backing but significant earnings volatility driven by weather dependency. The FY2025 results represent a robust recovery from the prior year's weather-impacted loss, with a 9.4% pre-tax margin that sits comfortably within sector norms. The company's near-zero leverage provides resilience that many leveraged competitors lack, though its wage-to-revenue ratio of 47% is elevated by sector standards, reflecting the operational demands of its diversified attraction model. Going forward, the business faces the sector-wide challenges of cost inflation, climate volatility, and the need for continuous capital investment to maintain competitiveness against both larger operators and alternative leisure offerings.
Shareholders' funds
£4,497,490
Balance sheet as at 2025-01-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of the operation of a leisure park.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-04-10
- Employees
- 110 (2025 accounts · was 99 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Ruby Farm, Blackawton, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 7BN
- Postcode
- TQ9 7BN
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-01-31
- Next due by
- 2026-10-31
- Financial year end
- 31 January
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-04-10
- Next due by
- 2027-04-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 93290 Other amusement and recreation activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 5 current · 4 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB121389 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| WOODLANDS LEISURE PARK, BLACKAWTON, TOTNES, DEVON, TQ9 7DQ | 2010-09-02 |
| 96/99 TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON, EC4Y 0HP | 1997-05-06 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 67 similar companies in TQ
The largest employer among its local peers (110 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1997.
Competitors Newton Abbot
This company ranks 1 among other amusement and recreation activities not elsewhere classified in Newton Abbot.
The class of 1997
38%
of the 203 companies in this sector incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.