THE STOWE HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-06 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-23
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£905K
-6% vs 2024
Net assets
£23M
-1% vs 2024
Employees
9
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-03-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £235,999 | £239,021 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£59,738 | -£223,838 | |
| Cash | £962,559 | £904,668 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £22,817,918 | £22,594,080 | |
| Net assets | £22,817,918 | £22,594,080 | |
| Equity | £22,817,918 | £22,594,080 | |
| Average employees | 9 | 9 | |
| Wages | £195,872 | £189,071 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -25.3% | -93.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 1.0% | 0.6% | |
| Current ratio | 4.66x | 7.20x |
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
- Saffery LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group or the parent charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- THE STOWE HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST · parent
- Stowe House Enterprises Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “Excluded from the original restoration programme and following two floods from dormitory rooms above (in November 2023 and February 2024)”
- “The new, standalone website for Stowe House was launched on the 1st April 2025”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 26 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HERROD, Mark | Secretary | 2025-10-15 | — | — |
| ARKWRIGHT, John Richard Charles | Director | 2011-01-18 | Oct 1950 | British |
| COLE, Haydn Alexander Charmasson | Director | 2025-01-15 | May 1963 | British |
| CREEDY SMITH, Simon Charles | Director | 2016-10-12 | Jun 1959 | British |
| FANE, Andrew William Mildmay | Director | 2006-11-01 | Aug 1949 | British |
| HAWORTH, Jeffrey Philip | Director | 2011-10-12 | Dec 1944 | British |
| HERROD, Mark | Director | 2021-07-07 | Jun 1983 | British |
| MILLER, James Percy | Director | 2025-11-06 | Apr 1951 | British |
| MORLEY, Robert Charles | Director | 2008-06-18 | Nov 1942 | British |
| WESTMAN, Annabel Chaundy | Director | 2012-10-17 | Dec 1953 | British |
Show 26 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSON STOPS, Mark Anthony | Secretary | 2009-09-01 | 2025-10-15 |
| LITHERLAND, Rupert | Secretary | 1997-06-30 | 2009-08-31 |
| ADSHEAD, David John | Director | 2019-04-17 | 2022-09-14 |
| BODLE, Andrew | Director | 2017-01-18 | 2018-01-12 |
| BROYD, Richard | Director | 2003-09-09 | 2024-10-16 |
| BRUNSKILL, Julie Christine | Director | 2018-07-11 | 2024-10-31 |
| CLUFF, John Gordon | Director | 2000-01-27 | 2011-04-13 |
| COLMAN, Juliet Ursula | Director | 2012-01-17 | 2019-12-07 |
| DE BURGH SIDLEY, Elizabeth Joy | Director | 2020-01-15 | 2024-02-27 |
| EVANS, Laurence Adrian Waring | Director | 1997-06-30 | 2000-01-27 |
| FARINGDON, Charles Michael, Lord | Director | 1998-12-28 | 2012-04-18 |
| HONEYMAN BROWN, Christopher | Director | 2012-10-17 | 2016-06-17 |
| JACKSON-STOPS, Mark Anthony | Director | 1998-12-28 | 2025-10-15 |
| KNOX, Timothy Aidan John | Director | 2006-04-04 | 2009-10-20 |
| LESLIE, Peter Evelyn, Sir | Director | 1997-06-30 | 2001-05-31 |
| LYELL, Nicholas Walter, Lord | Director | 2001-06-01 | 2007-07-05 |
| MAGUIRE, Robert Alfred | Director | 1998-12-14 | 2006-09-26 |
| MOBBS, Gerald Nigel, Sir | Director | 1998-10-31 | 2005-10-24 |
| MUSSON, Jeremy Gibson Dixon | Director | 2013-04-17 | 2019-04-17 |
| REARDON, Michael | Director | 2008-09-03 | 2011-07-13 |
| STIRLING, Angus Duncan Aeneas, Sir | Director | 1998-10-31 | 2012-07-18 |
| STIRLING, Duncan William Angus | Director | 2012-10-17 | 2019-07-17 |
| THOROGOOD, Peter John | Director | 1997-06-30 | 2008-11-07 |
| TOWNSEND, John Richard | Director | 1998-12-28 | 2008-01-16 |
| VAN DER VEEN, Marten | Director | 2007-07-05 | 2012-07-18 |
| VERNEY, Edmund Ralph, Sir | Director | 2009-04-16 | 2012-01-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 135 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-16 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2024-12-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-11 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-16 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-10-16 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-16 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2024-12-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-11-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-16 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2023-11-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-10-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+1.3%
£235,999 £239,021
-
Cash
-6%
£962,559 £904,668
-
Net assets
-1%
£22,817,918 £22,594,080
-
Employees
0%
9 9
-
Wages
-3.5%
£195,872 £189,071
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