CAMBRIDGE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Company number 04387799 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Cambridge Scientific Solutions Limited occupies a defensible niche at the intersection of engineering design and biotechnology R&D, sectors experiencing structural growth driven by UK life sciences investment and pharmaceutical manufacturing expansion. The company's dramatic financial recovery — from net assets of £34k in 2023 to £292k in 2025 — demonstrates resilience and likely reflects successful contract execution in a favourable market, though the micro-entity filing regime obscures the underlying revenue quality. Its principal vulnerabilities are scale limitations inherent to a 7-person operation, key person dependency under majority shareholder name shown to subscribers, and the cyclical project-based revenue model that drove the prior period of significant asset erosion. The current balance sheet strength (3.48x current ratio, minimal gearing) provides operational headroom, but sustained growth will require either organic capacity expansion or strategic partnership to compete for larger commission opportunities.
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Shareholders' funds
£292,432
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-03-05
- Employees
- 7 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Hallidays House, Hallidays Business Park, Radcliffe Road, Stamford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, PE9 1ED
- Postcode
- PE9 1ED
- Capital
- 34,292 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 30 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-11
- Next due by
- 2026-11-25
Nature of business (SIC)
- 71121 Engineering design activities for industrial process and production
- 72110 Research and experimental development on biotechnology
Officers 4 current · 13 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA772479 (Tier 1), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 27B SCOTGATE, STAMFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE, PE9 2YQ | 2018-04-11 |
| 2 WEST LANE, RIDLINGTON, OAKHAM, RUTLAND, LE15 9AY | 2014-01-13 |
| ST JOHN`S INNOVATION CENTRE, COWLEY ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 0WS | 2006-10-19 |
| 28 HUNTSMILL, FULBOURN, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 5RH | 2006-03-09 |
| 4 FARRINGFORD CLOSE, CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE CB4 3LU | 2004-01-25 |
| 33 GLEBE ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 7TF | 2002-06-19 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 88 similar companies in PE
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (7 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2002.
Competitors Peterborough
This company ranks 6 among engineering design activities for industrial process and production in Peterborough.
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.