SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTSHIRE MUSEUM TRUST(THE)

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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. SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTSHIRE MUSEUM TRUST(THE) 1986-02-07 → present
2. SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTSHIRE MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED(THE) 1984-06-20 → 1986-02-07

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

Fletchers & Partners

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 entity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTSHIRE MUSEUM TRUST(THE) · parent
   1. The Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
   2. Salisbury Museum Replicas Limited

Significant events

• “The highlight of the year was the opening of the new Salisbury, ceramics and natural history galleries in July, culmination of the £5.1 million Past Forward project.”
• “The museum fully re-opened on 13 July. Over 2,000 people attended the opening.”
• “The year began with the continuation of The Art of Wessex (11 November 2023 - 28 January 2024).”
• “Following this there was Fashioning Our World (10 February - 12 May 2024).”
• “The summer exhibition was Rex Whistler: The Artist and His Patrons (27 May - 29 September 2024).”
• “The final major exhibition of the year was the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (26 October 2024 - 26 January 2025).”
• “The museum had 30,542 visitors in 2024, more than pre-covid, despite the museum being partially open for more than half the year.”
• “The museum made 29 acquisitions over the year, including engraved glass by Simon Whistler, a riveting gun used to make Salisbury Spitfires and a Roman jewellery, tool and vessel hoard from Longbridge Deverill.”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

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

  +67.5%

  £29,144 → £48,802

• Cash

  -18.6%

  £1,041,894 → £847,942

• Net assets

  +1.3%

  £5,063,254 → £5,131,396

• Employees

  -17.6%

  17 → 14

• Profit before tax

  -95.9%

  £1,661,020 → £68,142

• Wages

  +0.1%

  £414,238 → £414,587

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