SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE

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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. SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE 2025-07-31 → present
2. SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE LIMITED 1994-04-20 → 2025-07-31

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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

PKF Francis Clark

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern nor any significant areas of uncertainty that affect the carrying value of assets held by the charity. Given the strong reserves level and cash balances of the charity, the trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the accounts on a going concern basis.”

Significant events

• “2024 has been a remarkable and important year for Surfers Against Sewage (SAS). Water quality was a key election issue and dominated the news and public agenda – with SAS making the most of many opportunities to drive awareness whilst keeping government, the regulators, and a failing water industry accountable.”
• “In 2024, we took the step to recruit three additional trustees taking our total to ten.”
• “June saw a major sustainability milestone as we installed solar panels at HQ, reducing our reliance on the grid by up to 70% and cutting carbon emissions.”
• “In November, we played a major role in the March for Clean Water, a mass mobilisation of 15,000 people in London, supported by 140 organisations, all demanding urgent action on water pollution.”
• “Our efforts paid off, securing 29 new bathing water designations, including 14 applications directly supported by SAS. This marked a turning point, with designated river bathing sites skyrocketing from just 2 to 15 in a single year.”

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

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +16.2%

  £2,894,655 → £3,363,756

• Cash

  -9.1%

  £2,240,834 → £2,036,625

• Net assets

  +1.5%

  £2,436,100 → £2,472,427

• Employees

  +21.6%

  37 → 45

• Wages

  +31.3%

  £1,214,518 → £1,594,625

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