THE GARWOOD FOUNDATION
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-29 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£952K
+49.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
+17.3% vs 2024
Employees
78
+5.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE GARWOOD FOUNDATION 2000-12-27 → present
- CROYDON SUTTON & DISTRICT SPASTICS SOCIETY 1976-11-10 → 2000-12-27
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £304,960 | £313,116 | |
| Operating profit | £201,464 | £845,188 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £229,125 | £788,937 | |
| Cash | £636,379 | £951,838 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,553,459 | £5,561,050 | |
| Net assets | £4,553,459 | £5,342,397 | |
| Equity | £4,553,459 | £5,342,397 | |
| Average employees | 74 | 78 | |
| Wages | £1,832,958 | £1,909,257 |
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 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 66.1% | 269.9% | |
| Net margin | 75.1% | 252.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.4% | 15.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.98x | 2.46x |
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
- Bryden Johnson 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 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
- THE GARWOOD FOUNDATION · parent
- Croydon CP Trading Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Foundation has received pledges totalling £200,000 towards the Capital Project, in addition to grants and donations received prior to 31st August 2025 and already recognised in the financial statements. Pledges are contingent upon various criteria including sufficient funds being raised and the project continuing as planned.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 36 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SANDLAN, Vicki | Secretary | 2021-04-01 | — | — |
| BATEMAN, Richard Paul | Director | 2018-03-21 | Jun 1956 | British |
| BEDFORD OAKES, Richard Mark | Director | 2022-04-07 | Dec 1956 | British |
| MERRICK, Gary Terence | Director | 2021-11-17 | May 1969 | British |
| MINEAR, Keith | Director | 2021-11-01 | Oct 1957 | British |
| NEWTON, Frank | Director | 2013-06-12 | Jan 1945 | English |
| POVEY, Sarah | Director | 2025-03-01 | Aug 1974 | British |
| SANDERS, Jackie Mary | Director | 2007-11-07 | Aug 1967 | British |
| TRUMPER, Ian Francis | Director | 2015-07-14 | Jan 1948 | British |
Show 36 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER, Charlotte Anne Louise | Secretary | 2019-02-21 | 2021-04-01 |
| HODGSON, Mary | Secretary | — | 2003-07-01 |
| HOWES, Alida | Secretary | 2006-06-16 | 2018-11-29 |
| MORRISS, Allan | Secretary | 2002-11-01 | 2006-06-16 |
| ADAMS, Robert Damian | Director | 2007-11-07 | 2021-08-01 |
| BOWERS, John Harry | Director | 1998-02-10 | 2018-02-21 |
| BRABHAM, Brian Ernest | Director | 1993-10-06 | 1999-07-27 |
| BUDDLE, Edwin Fraser | Director | 2005-05-09 | 2007-11-07 |
| CAPON, William Kenneth | Director | — | 1997-10-16 |
| COOPER, Charlotte Anne Louise | Director | 2016-02-16 | 2022-06-08 |
| DUDLEY, Sylvia Winifred | Director | — | 1997-09-30 |
| ELLIS, Sidney Andrew | Director | 1993-10-16 | 2002-10-01 |
| GILES, William James | Director | 2002-04-01 | 2004-03-31 |
| HODGSON, Mary | Director | — | 2008-10-27 |
| JEFFRIES, Richard | Director | 2014-02-25 | 2020-07-29 |
| JENNINGS, Grace Hilda | Director | — | 1993-10-16 |
| KNIGHTS, Valentine Wilfred | Director | 1998-02-10 | 2006-11-01 |
| MALONE, Garnet Denis | Director | 2009-10-01 | 2013-09-10 |
| MARTIN, Joyce Barbara | Director | 1992-10-07 | 2005-04-18 |
| MEAD, Dudley Sharratt | Director | — | 2014-10-22 |
| NEWTON, John | Director | 1997-01-21 | 2022-06-20 |
| NORRIS, John Charles | Director | 1999-04-22 | 2009-05-22 |
| POOLE, Angela | Director | 2004-04-01 | 2009-02-18 |
| POOLE, Angela | Director | 1999-12-09 | 2003-12-02 |
| POULTON, Derek William | Director | — | 1994-04-19 |
| ROSIER, Rose Marie Pearl | Director | 2005-05-09 | 2014-02-13 |
| SQUIRES, Paul Julian | Director | 2010-10-06 | 2015-09-02 |
| STRANACK, Andrew Jeremy | Director | 2004-01-01 | 2005-10-31 |
| STUART, John | Director | — | 1993-10-16 |
| TH, Mum | Director | 2022-03-07 | 2022-08-16 |
| THAPAR, Mumta | Director | 2022-08-16 | 2023-12-07 |
| THOMAS, Elizabeth | Director | 2016-02-16 | 2017-08-31 |
| TRAN, Alex Watson | Director | — | 1996-07-26 |
| WASON, Rigby | Director | — | 1998-10-21 |
| WEITHERS, Tania | Director | 2013-11-13 | 2017-03-29 |
| YATES, Jean Marion | Director | — | 1993-05-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 177 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-04-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-10-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-08-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-04-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-03-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-11-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
-
Turnover
+2.7%
£304,960 £313,116
-
Cash
+49.6%
£636,379 £951,838
-
Net assets
+17.3%
£4,553,459 £5,342,397
-
Employees
+5.4%
74 78
-
Operating profit
+319.5%
£201,464 £845,188
-
Wages
+4.2%
£1,832,958 £1,909,257
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