THE MAGDALEN ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-30 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£505K
-35.3% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
-1.7% vs 2023
Employees
21
+5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£67K
-71.8% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- THE MAGDALEN ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST 2011-07-19 → present
- THE WESSEX FOUNDATION 1990-06-28 → 2011-07-19
- STILLSHIRE LIMITED 1990-05-16 → 1990-06-28
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,279,193 | £1,712,868 | |
| Operating profit | £238,239 | £67,237 | |
| Profit before tax | £238,239 | £67,237 | |
| Net profit | £238,239 | -£51,413 | |
| Cash | £780,675 | £505,184 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,267,963 | £3,140,325 | |
| Net assets | £2,974,053 | £2,922,640 | |
| Equity | £2,974,053 | £2,922,640 | |
| Average employees | 20 | 21 | |
| Wages | £455,574 | £529,006 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 18.6% | 3.9% | |
| Net margin | 18.6% | -3.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.3% | 2.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.34x | 2.47x |
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
- Xeinadin Audit 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.”
Group structure
- THE MAGDALEN ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST · parent
- Magdalen Farm Limited 100%
- River Axe C.I.C 100%
Significant events
- “2024 has seen the successful conclusion of Defra-funded investment in habitat creation, particularly in the river, and has also seen the further development the Axe Landscape Recovery project.”
- “The River Axe CIC is a not-for-profit enterprise that, while not owned by the Trust, was effectively 100% controlled by the Trust during the accounting period until 29 December 2024... On 29 December 2024 control ceased as three new directors were appointed.”
- “In 2024 these very vulnerable people have been at the sharp end of dangerous political rhetoric and violent racism in the streets. They feel welcome here, and feel accepted, which can have a profound psychological value.”
- “A restoration project on Magdalen Farm in the summer of 2024 at a scale never seen in the valley before, and seldom seen anywhere.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROWE, Gillian Caroline Caroline | Secretary | — | — | British |
| DAVIES, William | Director | 2022-01-01 | Mar 1955 | British |
| FARTHING, Rupert Guy | Director | 2022-01-01 | Jul 1973 | British |
| GLEADELL, Sarah Helen | Director | 2017-05-10 | Dec 1944 | British |
| HABBERFIELD, Hilary | Director | 2022-01-01 | May 1980 | British |
| MILLER, Stephen Mackenzie | Director | 2022-01-01 | Apr 1949 | British |
| SPENCE, Gill | Director | 2010-03-05 | Mar 1954 | British |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNES, David, Dr | Director | 2002-09-01 | 2008-12-08 |
| BATT, Stephen Robert | Director | 1999-07-26 | 2000-01-12 |
| BERE, Raymond John | Director | 1996-01-10 | 1997-09-07 |
| BISS, Martin John | Director | 2022-01-01 | 2025-11-11 |
| BRISSETT, Leslie Bryan | Director | 1999-07-26 | 2000-06-30 |
| BYRNE, Fergus Timothy | Director | 2007-12-03 | 2008-09-14 |
| CHITTY, Giles Anthony | Director | — | 1996-05-07 |
| COPPINGER, Janet | Director | 1999-06-07 | 2001-12-31 |
| DARCH, Peter Brabham | Director | 2009-04-06 | 2021-12-14 |
| DOLLEY, Janice | Director | — | 2001-03-20 |
| DORSE, Julian | Director | 2002-09-01 | 2007-12-03 |
| DUFFELL, Ros Cliffe | Director | 2002-09-01 | 2004-02-28 |
| FORD, Miranda | Director | 2002-04-08 | 2006-05-25 |
| HARRISON, John Nicholas | Director | 1997-01-29 | 2010-03-05 |
| HEEKS, Alan David | Director | — | 2002-09-30 |
| HOWMAN, Nicholas Traill | Director | 2008-07-14 | 2009-10-05 |
| LOASBY, Timothy | Director | 2009-04-06 | 2013-01-01 |
| MADGE, Fiona | Director | 2004-12-13 | 2007-03-28 |
| MURRELL, Rebecca Louise | Director | 2006-09-04 | 2009-10-05 |
| SANDER-JACKSON, Paul | Director | 2002-04-08 | 2003-03-31 |
| SHEARER, Robert John | Director | 2009-04-06 | 2024-10-14 |
| SMITH, Anthony George | Director | 2004-10-04 | 2008-12-08 |
| SMITH, David William | Director | 2010-03-05 | 2011-09-23 |
| STERN, Malcolm Harvey | Director | 1992-08-02 | 1993-07-16 |
| STOKES, Hazel | Director | 2011-12-09 | 2018-07-07 |
| STUART, Frances | Director | 2010-10-15 | 2021-12-14 |
| TURNER, Nicholas | Director | 2015-08-13 | 2017-05-10 |
| WALKER, Caroline Shearson | Director | 2017-05-10 | 2025-11-11 |
| WILLY, Tessa | Director | 2006-09-04 | 2010-01-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 166 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-14 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2023-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2022-05-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-15 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+33.9%
£1,279,193 £1,712,868
-
Cash
-35.3%
£780,675 £505,184
-
Net assets
-1.7%
£2,974,053 £2,922,640
-
Employees
+5%
20 21
-
Operating profit
-71.8%
£238,239 £67,237
-
Profit before tax
-71.8%
£238,239 £67,237
-
Wages
+16.1%
£455,574 £529,006
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