WE THE CURIOUS LIMITED

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  6 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. WE THE CURIOUS LIMITED 2017-09-23 → present
2. AT BRISTOL LIMITED 1998-06-12 → 2017-09-23
3. BRISTOL 2000 LIMITED 1995-04-18 → 1998-06-12

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

Bishop Fleming Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have reviewed cashflow forecasts that extend to 31 March 2027. They expect that cash balances and reserves will remain sufficient for our daily operations and that the Group will be able to satisfy liabilities as they fall due. After making these enquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that We The Curious Group will have adequate resources to continue to operate for the foreseeable future, being a period of 12 months after the date on which the report and financial statements are signed. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. WE THE CURIOUS LIMITED · parent
   1. We The Curious (Enterprises) Limited 100% · England and Wales · nonprimary purpose trading activities namely the sale of bought in goods through the shops and operating a car park as well as corporate hospitality and non-tax exempt events and activities.

Significant events

• “At the beginning of the 2024-25 financial year, our team were busy preparing for the long-awaited reopening of We The Curious, following a 27-month closure due to a fire on our roof in April 2022.”
• “We The Curious officially reopened to the public on 2 July 2024.”
• “A key success of the year was the delivery of our reopening. Our venue returned with a refreshed offer, which included refurbished exhibits, three new/updated planetarium shows, a co-designed research programme in the Open City Lab, newly developed education workshops, as well as a brand-new programme of activities for visitors to explore across the venue.”
• “As part of this process, in 2024 we successfully recruited and appointed four new trustees to our Board, who have each brought with them their own valuable insight and lived experience strengthening expertise on the board in disability awareness, science industry research and performing arts.”
• “at the beginning of 2025 I was honoured to take over as Chair at We The Curious, after Nick Jones' term ended.”
• “This work included the implementation of a new ticketing system (TNEW), the launch of a new website and the migration onto to a new finance system (Xledger).”
• “Securing a grant of £150,000 from the John James Foundation.”
• “Achieving Disability Confident Employer (DCE) Level 2 accreditation in August 24”
• “We launched a new decarbonisation target, committing to 'a site powered without fossil fuels, using fully renewable electricity, and a 30% reduction in offsite carbon emissions by 2030'.”
• “The leasehold land and buildings have now been revalued in October 2025 by Andrew G B Forbes... total value of the land and buildings is now considered to be £5,330,000... with a loss of £10,320,000 included.”

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

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

6

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +49.4%

  £2,291,000 → £3,423,000

• Cash

  -51.9%

  £7,025,000 → £3,376,000

• Net assets

  -26.7%

  £48,242,000 → £35,352,000

• Employees

  +13.8%

  116 → 132

• Wages

  +23.5%

  £2,983,000 → £3,683,000

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