CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

1. CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY 1994-07-08 → present
2. THE URBAN CENTRE FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 1988-02-10 → 1994-07-08

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 §1A

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Abridged

Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)

Auditor

Bishop Fleming Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees continue to monitor the financial position of the charity and the potential impacts of inflation, challenges in recruitment, staff retention and the rising cost of living for our staff. The charity continues to have a healthy cash position and a strong forward plan of agreed future work. Under all the scenarios reviewed, the charity has sufficient reserves to enable it to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future. For this reason it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY · parent
   1. Retrofit West CIC 100% · England · to promote, develop and facilitate the retrofitting of homes and buildings to achieve net zero and energy affordability

Significant events

• “In July 2025 Anne Obey stepped down as a trustee, following 10 years as chair of the board.”
• “The government's ambitious mission to decarbonise the electricity system by 2030, scale up the community energy sector and invest billions into retrofitting homes has opened significant doors for influence.”
• “We became a UKRI-recognised Independent Research Organisation - a badge of research excellence.”

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

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +30.3%

  £8,978,323 → £11,700,348

• Cash

  +8.4%

  £1,627,636 → £1,764,943

• Net assets

  +11.6%

  £1,547,192 → £1,726,466

• Employees

  +22%

  109 → 133

• Profit before tax

  -66.8%

  £540,469 → £179,584

• Wages

  +26.3%

  £4,036,004 → £5,098,017

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