WESTON PARK FOUNDATION

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

WR Partners

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of making this report, after making appropriate enquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charitable company and group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. WESTON PARK FOUNDATION · parent
   1. Weston Park Enterprises 100% · use the House, buildings and Park profitably to provide funds for the primary objective. Weston Park Enterprises Limited operates the trading activities, complementing the opening of Weston Park to the public, through special events in the Park, a restaurant, private hire of the House for residential and corporate events and rentals of our 5 holiday properties.

Significant events

• “The Charity was pleased to be able to submit a completed Resilience Plan to the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) in October of 2024. The Plan achieved the Charity's objective in helping to set out a 10-year strategy to underpin the Charity's sustainability and its ambition to reduce its environmental impact.”
• “The ongoing repurposing of the Stables into commercial offices continued apace and we concluded the year with 80% of the occupiable spaces in use. A business community has been established alongside the 2 commercial office spaces in the Granary building.”
• “We successfully recruited a new Head Gardener, Anna Krapivina, who took over from Martin Gee who had been with the organisation for over 50 years.”
• “The Charity welcomed 36,894 visitors as well as 7,214 to the Rose Paterson Art Gallery.”
• “Recruitment continued to be a challenge with senior roles unfilled and with a paucity of applications for key positions with the appropriate skill base. Agencies were able to push up salaries as a consequence of the lack of supply and in a number of cases, significant fees were paid for appointments who subsequently left the business.”
• “Despite all of these challenges, driven in many cases as a consequence of national and global economic circumstances, we saw a very healthy growth in many of the Company's business activities. We saw an increase in visitor volume of 12.8% to 36,894 and our visitor attraction revenues were up 9.3%, events business up 3%, holiday lets up 15% and retail up 12.6%.”

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

Filings

3

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

  -0.9%

  £2,400,634 → £2,378,933

• Cash

  +2.7%

  £573,884 → £589,612

• Net assets

  -3.3%

  £16,036,017 → £15,511,455

• Employees

  +4.1%

  74 → 77

• Operating profit

  +56.6%

  -£1,324,615 → -£575,312

• Profit before tax

  +56.6%

  -£1,324,615 → -£575,312

• Wages

  +11.6%

  £1,475,354 → £1,646,523

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