LOWDHAM LEISUREWORLD LTD
Company number 05223956 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Lowdham Leisureworld is a £67.8m-turnover, family-controlled multi-franchise leisure vehicle retailer with genuine structural advantages — franchise breadth, an integrated destination-site ecosystem and a counter-cyclical aftersales annuity — that has compounded revenue at ~14% annually but allowed pre-tax margin to collapse to 0.5%, producing a return on equity of just 4.2%. The balance sheet is sound (£8.5m net assets, £2.9m cash, ~£6m undrawn stocking facilities), but £23m of interest-bearing inventory funding and 176 inventory days have turned working capital into the dominant drag on profitability. The strategic imperative is margin recovery over revenue growth: reduce stock and financing costs, lift finance-and-insurance and aftersales attach, and scale capital-light recurring revenue from storage and rental to rebuild returns above the cost of capital.
Shareholders' funds
£10,950,136
Balance sheet as at 2026-01-31
What it does
retail of caravans, motorhomes and campervans, along with parts, accessories and servicing work.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2004-09-07
- Employees
- 125 (2026 accounts · was 126 in 2025)
- Registered office
- Lowdham Leisure, Lowdham Road, Gunthorpe, Nottingham, NG14 7ES
- Postcode
- NG14 7ES
- Capital
- 1,000,002 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-01-31
- Next due by
- 2027-10-31
- Financial year end
- 31 January
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-08
- Next due by
- 2027-07-22
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45190 Sale of other motor vehicles
Officers 4 current · 5 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by LOWDHAM LEISUREWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2025-10-01
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COLIN'S CARAVANS OF BERKSHIRE LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z5395238 (Tier 2), registered since 2001.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 70 similar companies in NG
2nd largest employer among its local peers (125 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2004.
No.4 of the largest sale of other motor vehicles companies in Nottingham →
Competitors Nottingham
This company ranks 4 among sale of other motor vehicles in Nottingham.
The class of 2004
36%
of the 135,823 companies incorporated in 2004 are still active today; 61% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2017-11-08
- Where
- Nottinghamshire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NT533980 | Nottinghamshire | Leasehold | 2017-11-08 | — |
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