VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED (THE)

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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

Slade & Cooper Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. 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 group's or parent charitable 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. VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED (THE) · parent
   1. VSUK Trading Limited 100% · England · dormant

Significant events

• “The past year has been one of considerable change for the Society. We moved into our new headquarters in Manchester, opened our new teaching kitchen 'COOK!', launched a brand new trademark and restructured our team to improve our effectiveness.”
• “The 2024/2025 financial year saw the development of our brand-new city centre cookery school – branded and launched as COOK! 'with the Vegetarian Society'.”
• “Our brand new 'Plant-Based' Approved trademark was launched at Plant Based World Expo in November 2025 followed by a digital advertising campaign in the trade press.”
• “In September, our Head of Policy and External Affairs led on the delivery of a parliamentary reception within Westminster, aimed at gathering political support for a UK plant-based action plan.”
• “In late 2024, the Society also began work on a brand new policy campaign focused on animal welfare and male chick culling within the egg industry. Working with our appointed public affairs and communication agency, Pagefield, work on development of the 'Ban Hatch and Dispatch' campaign began in late 2024, ahead of a proposed launch in April 2025.”
• “A restructure towards the end of the year resulted in £209,087 of redundancy and related costs (such as legal and training); this will be recovered by the resultant saving in future years' staff costs.”

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

Filings

10

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

  +5.7%

  £571,327 → £604,034

• Cash

  -41%

  £1,134,736 → £669,896

• Net assets

  -4.3%

  £3,439,466 → £3,291,766

• Employees

  +15%

  20 → 23

• Wages

  +30.2%

  £702,092 → £914,349

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