GARSINGTON OPERA LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-25 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-21.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£24M
+11.6% vs 2023
Employees
24
+14.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£2M
-65.7% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,127,925 | £3,358,433 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £6,060,659 | £2,079,347 | |
| Net profit | £6,059,598 | £2,466,823 | |
| Cash | £5,203,709 | £4,102,184 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £21,215,223 | £23,682,046 | |
| Equity | £21,215,223 | £23,682,046 | |
| Average employees | 21 | 24 | |
| Wages | £1,028,102 | £1,366,474 |
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 | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 193.7% | 73.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.9% | 5.6% | |
| Current ratio | 5.31x | 4.82x |
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
- WR Partners
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Garsington Opera is in good financial health at the year-end, which is a testament to the success of the 2024 Festival, fundraising efforts and excellent cost control. This puts Garsington in a good position to face longer-term future challenges such as inflation, increases to employers' national insurance, and the enhanced minimum wage. Garsington Opera routinely budgets income and expenditure up to four years in advance, ensuring that planned activities are achievable and affordable.”
Group structure
- GARSINGTON OPERA LIMITED · parent
- Garsington Opera Enterprises Limited 100%
- Garsington Opera Productions Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The 2024 opera festival consisted of four main opera productions: Rameau's Platée, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Verdi's Un giorno di regno and our community opera was Andrew Norman's A Trip to the Moon.”
- “Opening in 2024, Garsington Studios is a new development bringing GO's entire operation under one roof and enabling a step-change of ambition and output for both our Emerging Artists' Programme and GO Participate with access to meeting and rehearsal spaces on site as well as a dedicated rehearsal facility for the main Festival productions.”
- “2024 was a milestone year for Garsington Opera with our first-ever appearance at the BBC Proms with our A Midsummer Night's Dream.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMSON, Phillippa Louise | Secretary | 2025-03-27 | — | — |
| CURTIS, Miranda Theresa Claire | Director | 2011-01-25 | Nov 1955 | British |
| FREEMAN-ATTWOOD, Jonathan, Professor | Director | 2012-11-14 | Nov 1961 | British |
| FROST, Nina Louisa | Director | 2025-07-10 | Nov 1987 | German |
| HIGGINS, Nigel Paul | Director | 2019-01-01 | Sep 1960 | British |
| INGRAMS, Catherine Veronica | Director | 2005-09-03 | Nov 1976 | British |
| KING, Neil Gerald Alexander | Director | 2002-01-29 | Nov 1956 | British |
| MACKINNON, Iain Francis | Director | 2006-09-25 | Aug 1959 | British |
| POWELL, Gary Alan | Director | 2024-07-11 | Jun 1968 | British |
| STRINGER, Jennifer Avril Kinmond, Lady | Director | 2022-07-07 | Apr 1952 | British |
| THE LADY MARKS, Clementine Medina, Lady | Director | 2010-01-25 | Mar 1967 | Greek |
| WESTON, Philip Benedict | Director | 2025-12-02 | Apr 1969 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, Alan William | Secretary | 2003-07-19 | 2012-01-31 |
| MACKINNON, Iain Francis | Secretary | 1994-07-26 | 2003-07-19 |
| PINDER, John Michael | Secretary | — | 1994-07-26 |
| WHITTINGHAM RIDDELL RESOURCES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2012-02-01 | 2025-03-27 |
| BIRCH REYNARDSON, William | Director | 1995-01-21 | 2008-07-11 |
| CAMPBELL-WHITE, Annette Jane | Director | 2022-07-07 | 2023-10-27 |
| CREED, Nicola Katharine | Director | 2024-05-01 | 2025-12-02 |
| DRYSDALE, John Duncan | Director | 1995-01-21 | 2022-07-07 |
| GREENE, Graham Carleton | Director | 1996-04-27 | 2015-07-09 |
| INGRAMS, Leonard Victor | Director | — | 2005-07-27 |
| INGRAMS, Rosalind Anne | Director | — | 2013-11-06 |
| SHEEHY, Mary-Ann, Hon Mrs | Director | — | 1994-12-08 |
| SURATGAR, David | Director | — | 2024-07-11 |
| TAYLOR, Bernard | Director | 2014-12-11 | 2022-12-31 |
| TAYLOR, Bernard | Director | 2008-08-01 | 2014-12-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 137 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-30 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-12-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-28 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-28 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2024-10-31 vs 2023-10-31
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Turnover
+7.4%
£3,127,925 £3,358,433
-
Cash
-21.2%
£5,203,709 £4,102,184
-
Net assets
+11.6%
£21,215,223 £23,682,046
-
Employees
+14.3%
21 24
-
Profit before tax
-65.7%
£6,060,659 £2,079,347
-
Wages
+32.9%
£1,028,102 £1,366,474
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