YORK CIVIC TRUST

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  6 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

Auditor

HPH

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the group and parent charitable company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. YORK CIVIC TRUST · parent
   1. Fairfax House York Enterprises Limited 100% · England and Wales · Retail shop

Significant events

• “The Trustees elected Dr Delma Tomlin MBE as the Chair of Board of Trustees in December 2024. Delma Tomlin becomes the first female Chair of the Civic Trust.”
• “Trustees have developed a new Forward Strategy (2025-2028) outlined in the Plans for future periods section on page 13.”
• “The Heritage Planning Studio collaboration with the Department of Archaeology continues and will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2025.”
• “The York Trailblazers project, made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, delivered programmes of work that directly connected with young people.”
• “We organised two public-speaking competitions for schools in June (Primary Schools) and November (Secondary Schools) in the Merchant Adventurers Hall.”
• “The first of the traditional sign written plaques was installed at the entrance to the King's Manor.”
• “The Civic Trust's Future-Proofing Initiative has developed into a strong partnership co-ordinated by York BID under the title of the Cleaning and Rejuvenation Partnership.”
• “A final report was submitted to the City of York Council and after a period of 59 years was adopted by the council in February 2025.”
• “At its board meeting on 18 June 2025 the trustees appointed W1M as the charity's new Discretionary Investment Manager.”
• “The increase in the cost of General Trust Activities included £13,070 invested in a new website for Fairfax House and £2,700 spent on legal fees for drafting revisions to the Articles of Association.”
• “We installed a plaque to 20th century sculptor Austin Wright at his previous home in Poppleton.”
• “2026 represents the 80th anniversary of York Civic Trust. We are planning a rich programme of activities that will raise our profile.”

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

Filings

12

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

6

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +4.5%

  £43,460 → £45,406

• Cash

  -77.2%

  £225,945 → £51,622

• Net assets

  +1.5%

  £7,993,566 → £8,113,180

• Employees

  +15.4%

  13 → 15

• Wages

  +0.6%

  £307,195 → £309,130

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