PALI TEXT SOCIETY LIMITED (THE)
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-25 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£31K
+34.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£4M
+5.2% vs 2023
Employees
2
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£110K
-40.7% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £69,859 | £95,731 | |
| Operating profit | -£161,337 | -£193,314 | |
| Profit before tax | -£78,297 | -£110,170 | |
| Net profit | £195,347 | £196,469 | |
| Cash | £23,340 | £31,290 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,813,340 | £4,009,809 | |
| Net assets | £3,813,340 | £4,009,809 | |
| Equity | £3,813,340 | £4,009,809 | |
| Average employees | 2 | 2 | |
| Wages | £50,243 | £43,171 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -230.9% | -201.9% | |
| Net margin | 279.6% | 205.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.2% | -4.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 3.3% | 2.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.23x | 2.96x | |
| Interest cover | -16.37x | -17.92x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Gravita Audit Oxford LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the Trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The publication of volume 35 of the Journal of the Pali Text Society is intended to mark a relaunch of the Journal: It is hoped that in future an issue of the Journal will be published annually; the Journal has now become open access (on publication articles are available for free download on the Society's website).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIEFFER-PÜLZ, Petra, Dr | Secretary | 2023-09-22 | — | — |
| GETHIN, Rupert, Professor | Director | 2001-09-22 | Jul 1957 | British |
| KAHRS, Eivind Georg, Doctor | Director | 1995-09-15 | May 1952 | Norwegian |
| KIEFFER-PÜLZ, Petra, Dr | Director | 2023-09-22 | Nov 1958 | German |
| ROESLER, Ulrike, Professor | Director | 2023-09-22 | Aug 1963 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GETHIN, Rupert, Professor | Secretary | 2001-09-22 | 2003-09-19 |
| GOMBRICH, Richard Francis, Prof | Secretary | — | 1994-09-30 |
| HAMILTON, Susan Bruce, Dr | Secretary | 1994-09-30 | 2000-11-01 |
| KAHRS, Eivind Georg, Doctor | Secretary | 2003-09-19 | 2023-09-22 |
| COUSINS, Lance Selwyn | Director | 2001-09-22 | 2003-09-19 |
| EVISON, Gillian Anne, Dr | Director | — | 2014-09-19 |
| GOMBRICH, Richard Francis, Prof | Director | 1992-09-30 | 2002-09-13 |
| HAMILTON, Susan Bruce, Dr | Director | 1994-09-30 | 2000-11-01 |
| NORMAN, Kenneth Roy, Professor | Director | — | 2010-09-17 |
| SHAW, Charles Michael Mowat | Director | 2003-03-21 | 2003-09-19 |
| SMITH, John Dargavel, Doctor (Phd) | Director | — | 1995-09-15 |
| YOUARD, Richard Geoffrey Atkin | Director | — | 2000-11-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Rupert Gethin | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-03-15 |
| Professor Rupert Gethin | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 134 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-31 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-09-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-25 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-03-22 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-03-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-03-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-03-15 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-02-01 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-01-31 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-31 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-01-31 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-09-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+37%
£69,859 £95,731
-
Cash
+34.1%
£23,340 £31,290
-
Net assets
+5.2%
£3,813,340 £4,009,809
-
Employees
0%
2 2
-
Operating profit
-19.8%
-£161,337 -£193,314
-
Profit before tax
-40.7%
-£78,297 -£110,170
-
Wages
-14.1%
£50,243 £43,171
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