WHEAL MARTYN TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-23 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-04-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£138K
+10% vs 2024
Net assets
£2M
+0.1% vs 2024
Employees
20
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2K
-97.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- WHEAL MARTYN TRUST 2016-08-12 → present
- WHEAL MARTYN TRUST LTD 2012-01-17 → 2016-08-12
- ST.AUSTELL CHINA CLAY MUSEUM LIMITED 1974-02-15 → 2012-01-17
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £191,396 | £198,720 | |
| Operating profit | £65,359 | -£3,044 | |
| Profit before tax | £69,864 | £1,647 | |
| Net profit | £69,864 | £1,647 | |
| Cash | £125,398 | £137,971 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,698,079 | £1,692,326 | |
| Net assets | £1,688,212 | £1,689,859 | |
| Equity | £1,688,212 | £1,689,859 | |
| Average employees | 20 | 20 | |
| Wages | £242,705 | £270,301 |
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 34.1% | -1.5% | |
| Net margin | 36.5% | 0.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.8% | -0.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 4.5% | 4.4% | |
| Current ratio | 5.99x | 6.65x | |
| Interest cover | 123.09x | -8.70x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PKF Francis Clark
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees have critically reviewed the Income and Expenditure and Cash Flow Forecasts, which have been prepared by management, and which are based on a cautious approach using the best information available at the time. The Trustees have concluded that the charity and its trading subsidiary are expected to have sufficient cash and unrestricted reserves to continue to operate for the foreseeable future and conclude that there are no material uncertainties and the going concern basis is appropriate.”
Group structure
- WHEAL MARTYN TRUST · parent
- Wheal Martyn Enterprises Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Over 25,800 visits, including more than 7,400 instances of community engagement”
- “Volunteers contributed over 1000 days to our work”
- “Four temporary exhibitions were staged in the gallery”
- “11 Home Education students completed their Arts Award working with Wheal Martyn”
- “Regular Memory Café, Arts for Health, Cornish speaking and Home Education sessions continued”
- “New community engagement initiatives including a monthly gathering of classic cars and Climate Café listening circle.”
- “80 children from three schools participated in an Arts Lab project working”
- “Full Museum Accreditation was secured for a further five years”
- “At the Cornwall Heritage Awards Wheal Martyn received a 'Highly Commended' certificate for the categories of 'Innovation' for our museum nights, 'Collaboration' for our work with Sensory Trust and the 'Spirit of the Awards' for representing the values of the Awards such as Diversity and Inclusion and Environmental Sustainability.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 35 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITWORTH, Lesley, Dr | Secretary | 2019-12-12 | — | — |
| BELL, Malcolm | Director | 2018-06-28 | Oct 1955 | British |
| SWAIN, Jacqueline Frances | Director | 2025-07-18 | Mar 1961 | British |
| WOOD, John Monthem | Director | 2016-04-21 | May 1947 | British |
| SOUTH WEST LAKES TRUST | Corporate Director | 2010-04-01 | — | — |
Show 35 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASSETT, Diane Joy | Secretary | 2010-04-01 | 2019-12-12 |
| GILES, Thomas Derek Bullivant | Secretary | 2000-07-14 | 2010-04-01 |
| HAWKEN, Alan Geoffrey | Secretary | 1992-09-23 | 1994-04-30 |
| MCCONNELL, Ellen Margaret | Secretary | 1994-05-01 | 2000-07-14 |
| PHILLIPS, Alison Mary | Secretary | — | 1992-09-23 |
| ARCHARD, Peter Ernest | Director | — | 1996-04-19 |
| BOWDITCH, Ivor Ronald | Director | 1993-10-15 | 2010-04-01 |
| BRIENS, Peter John | Director | 2010-07-15 | 2017-05-25 |
| BROWN, Malcolm Alan | Director | 2009-04-28 | 2010-04-01 |
| BULL, Jacqueline | Director | 2006-04-24 | 2010-04-01 |
| CARLTON PORTER, Robert William | Director | — | 1992-07-20 |
| CHENOWETH, Brian George | Director | 2012-12-13 | 2015-08-27 |
| DART, Christopher Peter | Director | 1993-10-15 | 2010-04-01 |
| DUDLEY, Caroline Elisabeth Anne | Director | — | 2004-10-21 |
| EDWARDS, Jacqueline Anne | Director | 2010-04-01 | 2018-04-26 |
| GILES, Thomas Derek Bullivant | Director | 1999-07-16 | 2010-04-01 |
| GRIME, Barry Millwood | Director | — | 2010-04-01 |
| GRONOW, Clive William, Dr | Director | 1992-07-20 | 2009-02-26 |
| HACKETT, Peter, Dr | Director | 1998-05-01 | 2004-12-16 |
| HARE, Adrian David | Director | 1992-07-20 | 1994-04-22 |
| JONES, Mark Cameron | Director | 2001-09-07 | 2003-10-03 |
| LAMOND, Ian Douglas | Director | 2003-12-11 | 2010-04-01 |
| MCGOWAN, Andrew | Director | 1998-07-16 | 2010-04-01 |
| PRESTON, Roger Duncan | Director | 1999-07-16 | 2010-04-01 |
| RESEIGH, Peter John | Director | — | 2006-02-13 |
| SILVERLOCK, Richard Francis Nicholls | Director | — | 1999-04-23 |
| SKELTON, Terence John | Director | — | 1994-07-20 |
| SMALE, Courtenay Vivian | Director | — | 2001-04-27 |
| SOUTHERN, John Brian | Director | — | 2000-12-01 |
| SWAIN, Joseph | Director | 2006-02-06 | 2009-09-21 |
| TETLEY, Jeremy David, Cdr | Director | — | 1992-04-23 |
| THURLOW, Charles Spencer | Director | — | 2010-04-01 |
| TRENERRY, Roger Eastmead | Director | 1994-04-22 | 1999-05-06 |
| VARCOE, Christopher | Director | 2018-04-26 | 2025-07-18 |
| WAITE, Ian Clapham | Director | — | 2003-10-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South West Lakes Trust | Corporate entity | Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 170 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-04-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-04-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-04-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-04-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-01-23 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2020-01-23 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2019-07-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-04-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
+3.8%
£191,396 £198,720
-
Cash
+10%
£125,398 £137,971
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£1,688,212 £1,689,859
-
Employees
0%
20 20
-
Operating profit
-104.7%
£65,359 -£3,044
-
Profit before tax
-97.6%
£69,864 £1,647
-
Wages
+11.4%
£242,705 £270,301
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