SCOPE

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

1. SCOPE 1995-06-29 → present
2. SPASTICS SOCIETY(THE) 1953-06-20 → 1995-06-29

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

Moore Kingston Smith LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After reviewing this information and considering the risks and uncertainties, they concluded that the Charity can meet its liabilities as they fall due, for at least 12 months from the date of this report. It remains appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. SCOPE · parent
   1. Scope Central Trading Limited 100% · England and Wales · Purchase of general merchandise, the distribution and sale of clothing and gifts and sales of greeting cards
   2. PurpleSpace Limited 100% · England and Wales · Membership and consulting

Significant events

• “In the last year we have also taken decisive steps to strengthen Scope's financial position for the long term. To achieve this, while continuing to deliver impact in line with our strategy, we have had to incur the substantial exceptional costs reflected in these accounts.”
• “As a result, we will have closed 77 of our shops over 18 months by 31 March 2026. This will reduce our running costs by £4 million per year from 2025 to 2026.”
• “Our acquisition of Purple Space in 2024 has expanded our reach into businesses and workplaces, shifting employer mindsets and building cultures where disabled talent can flourish.”
• “At the Labour Party Conference, we launched our latest Disability Price Tag 2024 report. This powerful report shows just how much more life costs when you're disabled.”
• “We launched our refreshed brand in September 2024 with our new strapline 'Creating equal futures with disabled people'.”
• “In 2025, we received over 600 nominations. Ths is double the number from the year before. We also secured our first headline sponsor, Evri. And Metro came on board as our media partner.”
• “In 2024 our retail estate faced economic and commercial factors in common with many high street traders and charity retailers in particular. ... we have taken significant action to address the situation by reducing the size of our estate by approximately half and returning the retail operation to profitability while growing our e-commerce operations.”
• “In addition to the 17 shops that we closed earlier in 2024/25, we closed 31 shops at the end of March 2025 and we have or will have closed a further 46 shops during 2025 to 2026 as part of this transition programme.”
• “In 2024 to 2025, we also opened 3 new shops in Leeds, Fulham, and Surbiton. And completed 2 relocations in Brighton and Andover, ensuring a continued high street presence in key locations.”

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

Filings

20

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

6

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -8.7%

  £24,024,000 → £21,936,000

• Cash

  +71%

  £1,026,000 → £1,754,000

• Net assets

  -23.5%

  £34,450,000 → £26,361,000

• Employees

  -1.7%

  713 → 701

• Operating profit

  -733.3%

  -£600,000 → -£5,000,000

• Wages

  +7.5%

  £22,470,000 → £24,161,000

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