BLIND VETERANS UK
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-26 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-12
Watchouts
Cash
£17M
+4.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£145M
-7.5% vs 2024
Employees
400
-5.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-03-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | -£6,531,000 | -£14,271,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £18,277,000 | -£11,490,000 | |
| Cash | £16,427,000 | £17,154,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £159,240,000 | £141,380,000 | |
| Net assets | £156,897,000 | £145,117,000 | |
| Equity | £156,897,000 | £145,117,000 | |
| Average employees | 425 | 400 | |
| Wages | £17,481,000 | £18,104,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | -4.1% | -10.1% | |
| Current ratio | 7.24x | 5.76x | |
| Interest cover | -7.05x | -13.68x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustee's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Group structure
- BLIND VETERANS UK · parent
- Four Seasons NWMC Housing Limited
Significant events
- “The Board of Trustees made the difficult decision to close the Llandudno Centre in 2025, which also resulted in approximately 90 respective staff being made redundant. The Centre concluded operations in April 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 68 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JAWEED-HURLEY, Gazala Perveen | Secretary | 2023-12-12 | — | — |
| CASWELL, Ben | Director | 2023-12-12 | Mar 1959 | British |
| CUTHBERTSON, Jamie | Director | 2021-12-14 | Nov 1960 | British |
| DAVIES, Guy Charles | Director | 2018-03-20 | May 1966 | British |
| HAVARD, Karl Adrian | Director | 2023-03-21 | Aug 1965 | British |
| HAYES, Clare | Director | 2021-12-14 | May 1972 | British |
| HEREDIA, Neelesh Christopher | Director | 2017-09-26 | Jan 1965 | British |
| HOLDERNESS, Alan Peter | Director | 2018-12-11 | Jun 1964 | British |
| JARRATT, Georgina Claire | Director | 2023-03-21 | Aug 1969 | British |
| PEEL, Giles Robert | Director | 2026-03-18 | Sep 1963 | British |
| SHERRIFF, Ian Kenneth Grant | Director | 2020-06-23 | Jul 1945 | British |
Show 68 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, Gregory Charles | Secretary | 2023-01-16 | 2023-05-15 |
| BELL, Adrian | Secretary | 2023-05-15 | 2023-12-12 |
| CAPLIN, Nicholas John | Secretary | 2014-11-07 | 2023-01-13 |
| FROST, Gerard Bernard John | Secretary | 1994-08-01 | 2000-10-31 |
| LEADER, Robert | Secretary | 2000-11-01 | 2014-04-17 |
| PORTER, William Barry | Secretary | 2014-03-18 | 2014-11-07 |
| WEISBLATT, William Coleman | Secretary | — | 1994-07-31 |
| AINSLIE, Catherine | Director | 2005-11-02 | 2006-11-02 |
| ARROWSMITH, Edwin Porter, Sir | Director | — | 1992-07-10 |
| BACON, Timothy Roger | Director | 1998-10-29 | 2015-12-09 |
| BEAUMONT-EDMONDS, Colin Frederick | Director | — | 2004-10-28 |
| BROOKE, Mike, Colonel | Director | 2011-03-22 | 2016-12-06 |
| BUCKLEY, David | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2020-09-22 |
| CADMAN, Dennis Ian | Director | — | 1997-05-10 |
| CARDWELL, Christopher | Director | 2018-12-11 | 2021-12-14 |
| CARTER, Evelyn Webb, Major General Sir | Director | 2007-01-23 | 2010-12-07 |
| COUPE, Barry Desmond | Director | 2017-03-28 | 2026-03-18 |
| COURT, Minoo Sahni | Director | 2017-09-26 | 2020-10-28 |
| CREE CBE, Malcolm | Director | 2016-04-01 | 2022-06-21 |
| DAVIS, Timothy John Bebb | Director | 2009-11-16 | 2017-12-12 |
| DELMAR-MORGAN, Michael Walter | Director | — | 2006-11-02 |
| DOWNING, George Graham | Director | 1997-07-31 | 1998-10-29 |
| DUFTON, Richard | Director | — | 1994-02-05 |
| EDWARDS, Francois Wyndham | Director | — | 2008-11-13 |
| FLETCHER, Anthony John | Director | 2012-12-05 | 2016-12-06 |
| GINGELL, John, Air Chief Marshal Sir | Director | — | 2004-07-28 |
| GORDON LENNOX, Michael Charles, Captain | Director | 1993-10-21 | 2008-11-13 |
| HARRIS, Penny | Director | 2014-12-02 | 2017-12-12 |
| HOPKINS, Norman | Director | — | 1998-10-29 |
| HUNT, Liz | Director | 2017-03-28 | 2020-03-24 |
| JOHNSTON, Maurice, Lieutenant General Sir | Director | — | 2003-07-31 |
| JOLLIFFE, David Shrimpton, Major General | Director | 2004-10-28 | 2016-12-06 |
| KEELING, Andrew Myles, Major General | Director | 1995-07-27 | 2013-12-05 |
| KNOWLES, David Trevor | Director | 1998-10-29 | 2012-10-01 |
| KYLE, Richard Henry, Air Vice Marshall | Director | 2004-11-15 | 2012-12-31 |
| LAZARE HAZAN, Raymond | Director | 1998-10-29 | 2017-02-03 |
| LEACH, Henry, Admiral Of The Fleet Sir | Director | — | 1998-10-29 |
| LEAVESLEY, James Thomas | Director | 2016-06-01 | 2019-09-24 |
| LEVINS, Kerry Michael | Director | 2012-12-31 | 2018-12-11 |
| LOW, Colin Mackenzie, The Lord Low Of Dalston | Director | 2000-10-26 | 2010-12-07 |
| LUKER, Paul, Air Vice Marshal | Director | 2012-12-04 | 2021-12-31 |
| LUMSDEN, Iain Cobden | Director | 2007-11-06 | 2013-12-05 |
| LYBURN, Andrew Usherwood | Director | 1994-04-28 | 2007-11-06 |
| MCDONALD, Alastair Neil, Dr | Director | — | 2000-06-21 |
| MEYER, Stephen Richard | Director | 2012-12-04 | 2015-12-09 |
| ODEY, Robin Crispin William | Director | — | 2003-11-02 |
| PALMER, Paul | Director | 2012-12-31 | 2018-12-11 |
| PEASE, Richard Thorn, Sir | Director | — | 1997-04-24 |
| PLATTEN, Ty Joseph | Director | 2015-12-09 | 2018-09-25 |
| POFFLEY, Mark William | Director | 2017-03-28 | 2022-12-20 |
| PULFORD, Nicola | Director | 2017-09-26 | 2023-09-19 |
| ROSS, Andrew John Shirley | Director | 2008-11-13 | 2017-02-23 |
| ROWCLIFFE, Claire | Director | 2023-03-21 | 2024-05-15 |
| RUTHERFORD-JONES, David John, Major General | Director | 2011-03-22 | 2016-03-01 |
| SEAL, Timothy John | Director | 2018-12-11 | 2025-12-31 |
| STUTTARD, David | Director | 2005-07-27 | 2012-12-31 |
| TAYLOR, Tom | Director | — | 1997-10-30 |
| TOMLINSON, Thomas, Captain | Director | — | 1994-01-26 |
| TURNER, David John | Director | 2016-02-01 | 2026-03-18 |
| VAN STRAUBENZEE, William Hamilton | Director | — | 2011-12-06 |
| VARLEY, John Silvester | Director | 1994-10-27 | 2013-06-30 |
| WALBRUGH, John Andrew Edmund | Director | 1997-07-31 | 2003-10-30 |
| WALKER, Victoria Margaret | Director | 2005-11-02 | 2016-03-01 |
| WALL, John Anthony | Director | — | 2000-09-14 |
| WATSON, Sarah Lucie | Director | 2014-12-02 | 2021-12-14 |
| WELLER, Jamie Frederick | Director | 2004-11-15 | 2011-12-06 |
| WILLAMSON, Colin | Director | 2017-02-03 | 2026-03-18 |
| WILLS, Kenneth Samuel Grevatt | Director | — | 1997-10-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Adrian Scott Bell | Individual | Significant influence | 2023-12-12 | Active |
| Mr Simon David William Hopkins | Individual | Significant influence | 2019-08-19 | Ceased 2022-05-27 |
| Mr George Jenkins | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-08-07 | Ceased 2019-05-31 |
| Mr Ian Kenneth Whitehead | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-08-01 | Ceased 2017-06-09 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 282 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-14 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-01-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-21 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-12-21 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2023-12-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-20 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-12-20 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-18 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-05-18 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 4
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+4.4%
£16,427,000 £17,154,000
-
Net assets
-7.5%
£156,897,000 £145,117,000
-
Employees
-5.9%
425 400
-
Operating profit
-118.5%
-£6,531,000 -£14,271,000
-
Wages
+3.6%
£17,481,000 £18,104,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers