FRIENDS OF HIGHGATE CEMETERY TRUST

1. FRIENDS OF HIGHGATE CEMETERY TRUST 2006-06-15 → present
2. FRIENDS OF HIGHGATE CEMETERY 1996-02-12 → 2006-06-15

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

Knox Cropper LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Board's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”

Group structure

1. FRIENDS OF HIGHGATE CEMETERY TRUST · parent
   1. Highgate Cemetery Limited · United Kingdom · non-charitable trading activities

Significant events

• “secured planning consent for a 25-year conservation programme”
• “submitted a £6.7 million bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund”
• “welcomed over 118,000 visitors, more than ever before, representing a 14% increase on the previous year”
• “number of visitors taking guided tours increased by 30%”
• “visitor income increased by 20%”
• “installed new benches in the Chapel and a Book of Remembrance”
• “implemented a combined membership and ticketing system”
• “introduced new customer relationship management software to consolidate our ticketing and membership systems”
• “held three more 'Neighbour Days' where residents in adjoining postcodes may visit for free”
• “gained a 2025 Travellers' Choice Award”
• “income from filming dropped to £1,300 (2024: £22,900)”
• “The Highgate Cemetery Act 2022 empowers the Trust to extinguish rights of burial and disturb human remains for the purpose of increasing the space for interments and the conservation. The first of the renewed graves was resold in January 2025.”
• “Our new Book of Remembrance was installed in March 2025”
• “facilitated several memorial restorations this year”
• “Work on sorting and cataloguing the Trust's archive and collections continues”
• “planning and listed building consent was granted by Camden Council in November 2025”
• “amended the original planning application to remove the proposed Gardeners' Building”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

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

  -51.4%

  £33,274 → £16,174

• Cash

  +26.4%

  £1,028,016 → £1,299,707

• Net assets

  +8.9%

  £12,076,511 → £13,153,416

• Employees

  +5.3%

  19 → 20

• Profit before tax

  +173%

  £394,514 → £1,076,979

• Wages

  +9.7%

  £687,624 → £754,427

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers