YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST FOR EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH LIMITED

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  5 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

Crowe U.K. LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have carried out an assessment of the Trust's going concern position. In making this assessment, the Trustees have considered the challenges facing the charity in funding its activities in the current economic and trading environment with a reduced levels of reserves. Having considered the financial position and projections of the Trust, and the actions outlined in the agreed Recovery Plan - as described below - the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that it will continue to have adequate resources to support its ongoing activities for the foreseeable future. The charity therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST FOR EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH LIMITED · parent
   1. JVC Retail Limited 100% · United Kingdom · Retail activities at visitor attractions and online
   2. Eboracum Roman Centre Limited 90% · United Kingdom · Dormant company

Significant events

• “As can be seen from these Annual Statements the charity has incurred a significant deficit for the year reported. The Trustees, in association with the executive team, have agreed a Recovery Plan for the current financial year with the onus on protecting revenues and cutting costs where possible, that have the least impact on the running of the charity.”
• “Difficult decisions were made in the year to begin to address this, including the closure of our Micklegate and Monk Bar visitor attractions and the Barley Hall Coffee Shop, and initiating a programme of restructuring to reduce costs.”
• “At the time of the approval of this report the restructuring process has been completed, and a new Executive team structure has been announced following David Jennings decision to step down from his role as CEO of the Trust. The Trustees would like to thank David for the commitment and expertise that he has shown in leading York Archaeology for the past 12 years. Gill Gimes retired from her post of Chief Finance Officer in the Spring of this year.”
• “The decision was taken by the Trust to make an early settlement of the loan, and it was repaid in full in March 2025.”

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

Filings

12

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -15.7%

  £13,683,691 → £11,539,693

• Cash

  -44.9%

  £1,893,229 → £1,042,318

• Net assets

  -22.4%

  £5,919,437 → £4,590,708

• Employees

  -0.4%

  226 → 225

• Profit before tax

  -5,993.1%

  -£21,859 → -£1,331,897

• Wages

  -2.5%

  £5,948,138 → £5,797,821

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