BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED

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  Outstanding charges registered

  One or more mortgages or charges remain undischarged on the Companies House register.

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Abridged

Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)

Auditor

Forvis Mazars LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED · parent
   1. Birmingham Botanical Gardens (Enterprises) Limited 100% · England and Wales · operates the Garden Centre, selling plants and giftware and since 1 July 2013 operates the conferencing and catering facilities.

Significant events

• “It was an extremely challenging year, but a huge amount was achieved. The team, led by Sara Blair-Manning worked flat out to improve the Gardens, develop the business to support them, and complete the plans for the capital project, 'Growing our Green Heritage', for submission to the National Lottery Heritage Fund.”
• “The aviary was taken down. Built in the 1990s it was looking very shabby, would have cost many thousands to paint and with the decision to stop keeping caged birds, no longer had a purpose. Its removal revealed the vista as imagined by Loudon in its original design for the first time in thirty years.”
• “Our catering arrangements were due to change when the current contract ended in December 2024. In preparation for that we carried out a thorough tender from April 2024 with a successful and exciting outcome; but due to circumstances completely outside our control, when the previous caterers left, the café had to close.”
• “Our landlords, the Calthorpe Estate, agreed to the renewal of the lease for the Gardens for a period of 100 years if the project goes ahead, and we are grateful for this and their ongoing support.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -7.8%

  £568,988 → £524,849

  lowest in 3 filed years

• Cash

  -8.5%

  £635,406 → £581,147

• Net assets

  -4.2%

  £2,319,438 → £2,221,885

• Employees

  +18.9%

  37 → 44

• Wages

  +12.1%

  £899,982 → £1,008,732

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers