KEYCHANGE CHARITY
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-27 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£230K
-53.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£10M
+5.3% vs 2024
Employees
241
-10.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£499K
+183.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £8,954,799 | £9,518,448 | |
| Operating profit | -£611,740 | £489,631 | |
| Profit before tax | -£596,713 | £498,902 | |
| Net profit | £942,931 | £528,823 | |
| Cash | £498,815 | £230,050 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,303,388 | £10,733,362 | |
| Net assets | £9,906,735 | £10,435,558 | |
| Equity | £9,906,735 | £10,435,558 | |
| Average employees | 268 | 241 | |
| Wages | £5,539,521 | £5,390,907 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -6.8% | 5.1% | |
| Net margin | 10.5% | 5.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | -5.9% | 4.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.5% | 11.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.79x | 3.32x | |
| Interest cover | -17.04x | 16.42x |
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
- Sayer Vincent LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Despite the continuing challenges in the operating environment, particularly in relation to cost pressures in staffing, energy, and property maintenance, the trustees are satisfied that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. There are no material uncertainties identified that cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.”
Group structure
- KEYCHANGE CHARITY · parent
- Stumpwell Housing Association Limited 100%
Significant events
- “significant improvement in net current assets from -£0.2m last year to £2.3m as of 31 March 2025, due to operations generating a surplus and the sale of the Overdale asset.”
- “Cressingham House, Wallasey... The trustees made the decision to close Cressingham House which occurred in May 2022.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 37 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNING, Benjamin | Secretary | 2024-01-25 | — | — |
| ASIODU, Brenda Gwendolyn | Director | 2026-03-12 | Mar 1973 | British |
| BIRD, Ian Michael | Director | 2021-09-21 | Sep 1958 | British |
| BIRD, Madeline | Director | 2020-06-03 | Jan 1959 | British |
| CANTORE, Stefan Paul | Director | 2020-06-03 | Oct 1959 | British |
| COCKELL, Stephen Frank | Director | 2026-03-12 | Mar 1958 | British |
| COOK, Bradley | Director | 2024-07-25 | Mar 1981 | British |
| COTTERALL, Timothy Charles | Director | 2015-02-17 | Jan 1961 | British |
| HO, Annie Sai Ki | Director | 2025-02-13 | Nov 1964 | British |
| LEGGETT, Nicholas William Michael, Rev | Director | 2019-05-15 | Jan 1962 | British |
| POWLEY, Sarah Elizabeth | Director | 2024-07-25 | Mar 1973 | British |
| ROBERTS, Glenda Ann | Director | 2024-11-07 | Nov 1968 | British |
| STOCKMAN, Rebecca | Director | 2019-08-07 | May 1978 | British |
Show 37 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKMAN, Sharon | Secretary | 2020-11-26 | 2023-10-28 |
| NIXON, Mark | Secretary | 2009-08-07 | 2015-06-14 |
| READ, Christopher John | Secretary | 1997-02-13 | 1998-11-24 |
| SCARLETT, Hazel | Secretary | 2023-11-09 | 2024-01-25 |
| SHAFIK, David Joseph | Secretary | 1998-11-24 | 2009-08-07 |
| SOKOYA, Oladipo Soneye | Secretary | 2015-06-15 | 2020-11-26 |
| BALL, Edmund Hugh | Director | 2001-03-31 | 2004-07-06 |
| BENNETT, Seton John, Dr | Director | 1997-02-13 | 2014-12-30 |
| BUDDEN, Mavis Ruth | Director | 2002-04-10 | 2007-03-29 |
| CHAPMAN, Roger Leonard Patrick | Director | 1997-02-13 | 2000-12-30 |
| DOUGLAS, Charles Paul Murray | Director | 2004-09-28 | 2018-07-25 |
| DOUGLAS, Charles Paul Murray | Director | 1998-09-29 | 2002-05-07 |
| DOUGLAS, Margaret Judith | Director | 2007-09-27 | 2017-07-26 |
| DOWNING, Benjamin | Director | 2023-11-03 | 2024-01-04 |
| ELLIS, Thomas Geoffrey | Director | 1997-02-13 | 2015-07-14 |
| GALLAGHER, William Peter | Director | 2006-02-01 | 2006-11-28 |
| GARDNER, Malcolm Thomas | Director | 1999-06-29 | 2014-09-27 |
| GIBSON, June Rose | Director | 2001-10-09 | 2015-02-17 |
| GODDARD, David Hedley John | Director | 2004-04-13 | 2018-12-05 |
| HANTON, David Gibson | Director | 1997-02-13 | 1998-07-14 |
| HANTON, Sheila Marion | Director | 1997-02-13 | 2000-02-08 |
| HENSHAW, Joan | Director | 2016-07-27 | 2022-09-28 |
| JOHNSON, Nicholas Charles | Director | 2019-05-15 | 2024-07-25 |
| KHAN, Ayub | Director | 2018-02-28 | 2024-11-07 |
| LAU, Selina Hue Ying | Director | 2018-07-25 | 2023-03-02 |
| LOW, Stephen James | Director | 2010-02-10 | 2011-06-01 |
| MASON, Ruth | Director | 1997-02-13 | 2001-10-10 |
| MCLEOD, Angus Alastair | Director | 1999-06-29 | 2009-02-28 |
| MCLEOD, Jill Pauline | Director | 2001-02-13 | 2006-02-01 |
| MILNER, Rosemary Joy | Director | 1997-02-13 | 2024-05-22 |
| PRICE, John Duncan | Director | 1997-02-13 | 1999-08-04 |
| PRINGLE, James | Director | 1997-02-13 | 2001-06-26 |
| ROBERTS, Timothy John | Director | 2018-02-28 | 2024-11-07 |
| SANFORD, Christopher Benjamin, Dr | Director | 2013-04-10 | 2015-10-30 |
| STONES, Graham, Revd Preb | Director | 2015-05-21 | 2018-02-28 |
| TAYLOR, Imogen | Director | 2010-03-24 | 2019-05-15 |
| TAYLOR, Roger Hugh | Director | 2000-01-19 | 2019-05-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 193 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-04-25 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-01-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-04-25 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-02-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-16 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-03-16 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+6.3%
£8,954,799 £9,518,448
-
Cash
-53.9%
£498,815 £230,050
-
Net assets
+5.3%
£9,906,735 £10,435,558
-
Employees
-10.1%
268 241
-
Operating profit
+180%
-£611,740 £489,631
-
Profit before tax
+183.6%
-£596,713 £498,902
-
Wages
-2.7%
£5,539,521 £5,390,907
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