Virgin Active: who owns it, who runs it and what the accounts show
Virgin Active Limited's person with significant control on the Companies House register is Virgin Active Holdings Limited. In the year to December 2024 Virgin Active Limited reported turnover of £130m.
- Registered name
- VIRGIN ACTIVE LIMITED
- Company number
- 03448441
- Status
- Active
- Incorporated
- 13 October 1997
- Registered office area
- East-Central London
- Industry code on the register
- 93290: Sports activities and amusement and recreation activities
- Accounts
- Single company accounts, this company only
- Accounts type
- Full accounts
- Latest accounts
- Year to December 2024, filed 4 October 2025
What does Virgin Active do?
Virgin Active runs health clubs with gyms, fitness classes, swimming pools, spas and racquet sports such as tennis and padel. It earns most of its income from monthly memberships, with extra charges for personal training and some services. Its clubs are aimed at families as well as individual members.
In brief: health club chain · gyms, pools and racquets · membership income
Source: Virgin Active's own website, retrieved 24 September 2026.
Who owns Virgin Active?
The Companies House register records Virgin Active Holdings Limited as the person with significant control of Virgin Active Limited, company number 03448441. Virgin Active Holdings Limited is itself company number 03613370.
That places Virgin Active Limited inside a larger group. The accounts on this page are the company's own, not the wider group's.
The full ownership record is on the Companies House register. Control is given in the bands the register uses, not as exact shareholdings.
Who runs Virgin Active?
The Companies House register lists 2 current officers for Virgin Active Limited.
All 2 current officers
| Officer | Appointed |
|---|---|
| Poppy Kevelighan | 12 December 2023 |
| Elena Chambers | 20 October 2025 |
Every current officer, with appointment dates, is on the Companies House register.
What did Virgin Active file?
Virgin Active Limited reported turnover of £130m in the year to December 2024. That was up 8.3% on £120m the year before.
It reported 2,144 employees. The year before it reported 2,379.
It filed a pre-tax loss of £22m for the year, against a pre-tax loss of £15m the year before.
Staff costs came to £52m. That is an average of £24,000 a head. It ended the year with £9m at the bank and net assets of £106m.
| Measure | Dec 2024 | Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £130m | £120m |
| Pre-tax profit | -£22m (filed) | -£15m (filed) |
| Employees | 2,144 | 2,379 |
| Staff costs | £52m | £54m |
| Average staff cost per head | £24,000 | £23,000 |
| Bank and cash | £9m | £8m |
| Net assets | £106m | £122m |
| Interest paid | £17m | |
| Interest received | £6m | |
| Directors' pay | £3m |
Read the accounts to December 2024 on Companies House, where every set of accounts the company has filed can be downloaded as a PDF.
Are there any charges against Virgin Active?
Virgin Active Limited has registered 18 charges at Companies House, of which 4 are still outstanding. A charge is security a lender takes over a company's assets; one is satisfied when the lending behind it is repaid or released.
All 4 outstanding charges
| Charge holder | Created |
|---|---|
| Hsbc Corporate Trustee Company (UK) Limited as Security Trustee for the Secured Parties | 7 July 2023 |
| Hsbc Corporate Trustee Company (UK) Limited (in Its Capacity as Security Trustee for the Secured Parties) | 20 May 2021 |
| Hsbc Corporate Trustee Company (UK) Limited (as Security Trustee) | 11 July 2017 |
| Oceanfill Limited | 23 September 2000 |
Each charge, with its holder and dates, is on the Companies House register.
Virgin Active files as Virgin Active Limited, whose person with significant control is Virgin Active Holdings Limited, with turnover of £130m in its latest filed year.
Questions about Virgin Active
What does Virgin Active do?
Virgin Active runs health clubs with gyms, fitness classes, swimming pools, spas and racquet sports such as tennis and padel. It earns most of its income from monthly memberships, with extra charges for personal training and some services. Its clubs are aimed at families as well as individual members.
Who owns Virgin Active?
The Companies House register records Virgin Active Holdings Limited as the person with significant control of Virgin Active Limited.
How much does Virgin Active make?
Virgin Active Limited reported turnover of £130m in the year to December 2024. It filed a pre-tax loss of £22m.
How many people work at Virgin Active?
Virgin Active Limited reported 2,144 employees in the year to December 2024.
Who runs Virgin Active?
The Companies House register lists 2 current officers for Virgin Active Limited. The full list, with appointment dates, is on the Companies House register.
- Figures come from Virgin Active Limited's filings at Companies House, company number 03448441, for the period shown at the top of the page.
- These are single company accounts: they cover this company alone, not any wider group.
- Pre-tax profit is the figure the company filed, for both years.
- A figure the filing does not disclose is shown as n/d. A zero in the filing is treated as not disclosed, never as nil.
- Rounding: below £0.1m in thousands, from £0.1m to £2m to one decimal place, from £2m to the nearest million.
- Ownership is shown in the control bands the register of people with significant control uses, not as exact shareholdings.
- Officers' names and appointment dates come from the Companies House register. Job titles come from the company's own website. The description of what the company does comes from its website, or is marked Spark Intel editorial where it is written from stable, checked facts, with the date either way.
Spark Intel, “Virgin Active: who owns it, who runs it and what the accounts show”, updated 28 September 2026. https://www.spark-intel.co.uk/companies/virgin-active/. Figures from Companies House filings for VIRGIN ACTIVE LIMITED (03448441).
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