LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND WILDLIFE TRUST LTD

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

1. LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND WILDLIFE TRUST LTD 1997-05-14 → present
2. LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND TRUST FORNATURE CONSERVATION LIMITED(THE) 1956-02-24 → 1997-05-14

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

PKF Smith Cooper Audit Limited Statutory Auditors

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trust continues to have healthy cash balances and the Trustees have reviewed the Group's future plans for the next two financial years, detailed in prudent and conservative forecasts of activity and related cash-flow impacts. Based on this and available cash reserves, the Trustees consider the Trust has adequate funds and sufficient cashflows to meet its liabilities and those of its subsidiary undertaking, as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. The Trustees also consider that the Trust's anticipated future objectives can be met. The financial statements have therefore been prepared on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND WILDLIFE TRUST LTD · parent
   1. Leicestershire Wildlife (Sales) Limited 1% · UK · nature conservation contracts and wildlife consultancy, together with its retailing operations.

Significant events

• “The Trust is three years into its Strategy to 2030: Bringing Nature Back.”
• “Land at Great Bowden, kindly donated by the Adler family in memory of their son, has been named the James Adler Nature Reserve. This is a delightful site of 21.37 ha (52.8 acres), very close to the village and to the River Welland.”
• “A donation from David Wilson Homes of 2.4 ha (5.9 acres) of land at Syston was finalised during the year.”
• “Harborough District Council following their acquisition of over 53 hectares (130 acres) of former farmland near Great Bowden, which was announced in March 2025.”
• “Our Greener Golf initiative achieved a milestone during the year, with 14 clubs in Leicestershire and Rutland signed up to help increase biodiversity in underused areas of their courses.”
• “In December 2024 our Next Door Nature staff lead, Fee Worton, was awarded The Marsh Staff Award for Outstanding Public Engagement 2024.”
• “This year we started our new "Restore the Soar" project, which is a partnership with Leicester City Council and the Canal and River Trust.”
• “The first phase of dormice reintroduction in Leicestershire took place in June 2025.”
• “We are already preparing for celebrations in 2026, when the Trust will be marking 70 years since its creation, 50 years of Rutland Water Nature Reserve, and 30 years of Rutland Ospreys.”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +20.6%

  £791,272 → £954,479

• Cash

  +60.3%

  £1,123,506 → £1,800,522

• Net assets

  +17.4%

  £4,989,152 → £5,857,346

• Employees

  -12.1%

  33 → 29

• Operating profit

  +304%

  -£404,527 → £825,426

• Profit before tax

  +305.4%

  -£401,786 → £825,128

• Wages

  +3.1%

  £874,749 → £901,870

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