COTSWOLD WILD LIFE PARK LIMITED

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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Saffery LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “The COVID pandemic has, however, sent a very clear warning of the vulnerability of the attractions industry.”
• “Repeated Avian Influenza outbreaks, which for the first time in 2022 persisted throughout the summer, resulting in restricted access to various parts of the Wildlife Park for the entire season.”
• “Uncertain geo-political situation arising in the Middle East and in Ukraine, and increases in energy prices are major negative forces impacting on the ability of the Wildlife Park to trade to its full potential.”
• “New Labour government has already raised employers' NI contributions and is poised greatly to increase employees' rights, in particular to abolish probationary periods for new employees.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +12.4%

  £9,410,616 → £10,581,131

• Cash

  +11.3%

  £11,846,387 → £13,185,430

• Net assets

  +11%

  £19,316,944 → £21,441,014

• Employees

  +2%

  150 → 153

• Operating profit

  +30.2%

  £1,861,376 → £2,422,834

• Profit before tax

  +30.3%

  £2,199,741 → £2,865,501

• Wages

  +9%

  £2,796,395 → £3,049,293

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