STAFFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED

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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. STAFFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED 1994-06-17 → present
2. THE STAFFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED 1989-11-09 → 1994-06-17
3. STAFFORDSHIRE NATURE CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED (THE) 1969-08-05 → 1989-11-09

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

Dains Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Following remedial action being taken in April 2024, the unrestricted profit and loss account returned to a surplus in 2024/25. Despite a challenging economic climate this has remained the case throughout the year and since the year end, and current forecasts predict this to continue for the foreseeable future. Free reserves at the year end were slightly above the target level set in the financial reserves policy. As such, the trustees are confident that the charity will remain a going concern for the foreseeable future.”

Group structure

1. STAFFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED · parent
   1. Staffordshire Wildlife Trading Limited · England
   2. Staffordshire Ecological Services Limited · England

Significant events

• “acquired a new reserve near the Roaches in January 2025.”
• “Staffordshire Wildlife Trust was awarded "Responsible Body" status by DEFRA, the first Wildlife Trust to attain this”
• “closure of Westport Lake Visitor Centre during the year was a disappointment”
• “launched several projects connecting people to nature; Nature in Your Neighbourhood, City Nature Challenge and Next Door Nature, as well as setting up community groups. We also took part in the "Restore Nature Now" march in London”
• “New land is especially important for rare waxcap fungi and does not have any special protection on it, so we were very keen to purchase the land. To fund the land, we used a legacy provided to us by the late David Aldred. The new land will be called Aldred's Pastures, in recognition of Mr Aldred's support and generous gift to the Trust.”
• “sound of bittern booming on Doxey Marshes for the first time in 100 years.”

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

Filings

13

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

6

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

  -11.1%

  £1,096,000 → £974,000

• Cash

  +117.3%

  £978,000 → £2,125,000

• Net assets

  +36.7%

  £10,344,000 → £14,144,000

• Employees

  -9.8%

  133,000 → 120,000

• Wages

  -5.5%

  £2,164,000 → £2,045,000

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