GRANGE PARK OPERA
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-16 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+16.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£16M
+3.1% vs 2024
Employees
100
+1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£224K
-155.3% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £404,497 | -£223,681 | |
| Net profit | £1,180,727 | £476,433 | |
| Cash | £2,310,581 | £2,696,584 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,213,140 | £15,689,573 | |
| Net assets | £15,213,140 | £15,689,573 | |
| Equity | £15,213,140 | £15,689,573 | |
| Average employees | 99 | 100 | |
| Wages | £383,550 | £420,728 |
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 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| Current ratio | 5.59x | 4.45x |
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
- Menzies LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and accordingly continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- GRANGE PARK OPERA · parent
- GPO Productions Limited 100%
Significant events
- “On stage, this eighth season in Surrey boasted three/ masterworks, a world premiere and a night of ballet, all of them delivered musically and dramatically on a very high level.”
- “The largest element of Bamber Legacy project, the Simon Freakley Treetop Studio and dressing rooms, was completed in May 2025.”
- “Planning permission was granted for an exterior lift to the 3rd and 4th floors which will be installed in early 2026 and investigations to heat the Opera House will continue once the current building work is complete.”
- “The 2025 season gave work to nearly 400 people of whom around 100 were from the local area.”
- “100 Primary Robins gave a concert in the Opera House in June 2025.”
- “In March 2025, a large scale musical Made in Dagenham was staged, our 28th prison collaboration.”
- “On 3 April 2025 Pimlico Opera's key staff (Helen Sennett and Annabel Larard) were invited to Windsor Castle to celebrate community music across the United Kingdom. They had the great privilege of meeting the King.”
- “2025 generated a surplus with a 19% increase in ticket sales on 2024.”
- “The long term rate of Theatre Tax Relief reduced from 45% to 40% from 1 April 2025.”
- “The consolidated restricted fund also increased during the year to £11,868,137 ... due to additional fund raising for the Bamber Appeal. A lift to the Simon Freakley Treetop Studio is being installed in early 2026 with heating for the Opera House to follow.”
- “ENO orchestra will play for two operas in each year for 2026-2030 including all of The Ring Cycle.”
- “The American Friends of Grange Park Opera held their first event in New York in December 2025, to spread awareness and support fundraising.”
- “Looking to 2026, the Summer Season offers the launch of The Ring Cycle, a Rossini comedy Il Barbiere di Siviglia, ... a revival of Verdi's epic Don Carlo, and the world premiere of John Tavener's Krishna...”
- “The 2027 season presents part two of the Ring Cycle (Die Walküre), a revival of Eugene Onegin, Donizetti L'elisir d'amore and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 22 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRANMER, Eleanor | Secretary | 2017-11-01 | — | — |
| BUGG, Anthony | Director | 2015-03-31 | Feb 1956 | British |
| BURNSIDE, Iain Norman, Prof | Director | 1999-01-26 | Sep 1956 | British |
| BUTCHER, Sue | Director | 2017-11-01 | Mar 1961 | British |
| CONSTABLE, Adam Michael, Sir | Director | 2025-02-11 | Jan 1973 | British |
| DAVIES, David John, Sir | Director | 2016-02-05 | Apr 1940 | British |
| DUFFIELD, Vivien Louise, Dame | Director | 2016-02-05 | Mar 1946 | British |
| EVANS, James Wynne | Director | 2020-03-31 | Jan 1972 | British |
| FREAKLEY, Simon Vincent | Director | 2000-04-01 | Aug 1961 | British |
| KERSHAW, David Andrew | Director | 2017-11-01 | Feb 1954 | British |
| MEAGHER, George Mannix | Director | 2024-05-14 | May 1990 | British |
| VEEDER, Marie | Director | 2024-10-23 | Feb 1960 | British,American |
| WEED, Keith Charles Frederick | Director | 2018-02-19 | Apr 1961 | British |
Show 22 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTLER, Carol Anne | Secretary | 2000-04-01 | 2006-12-22 |
| FARR, Jeremy Russell | Secretary | 2014-03-01 | 2016-05-17 |
| FREAKLEY, Simon Vincent | Secretary | 1999-01-14 | 2000-05-09 |
| LABRAM, Elaine Marion | Secretary | 2007-01-04 | 2007-10-16 |
| MACKINNON, Iain Francis | Secretary | 1998-01-06 | 1998-11-26 |
| MATTHEWS, Brian | Secretary | 2016-05-17 | 2017-01-14 |
| PEARSON, Rachel Elizabeth | Secretary | 2007-10-16 | 2012-10-31 |
| ROSS, Annabel Jean | Secretary | 2012-10-31 | 2014-03-01 |
| RUSSELL, Fiona | Secretary | 2017-01-05 | 2017-09-14 |
| ASHBURTON, John Francis Harcourt | Director | 1999-03-11 | 2010-01-11 |
| BARING, Mark Francis Robert | Director | 2008-02-26 | 2015-03-09 |
| BARLOW, Joanna Lamond | Director | 2012-12-05 | 2024-10-23 |
| COWAN, Hilary Jane | Director | 2019-03-13 | 2025-10-14 |
| CRESWELL, Mary Curtis | Director | 2016-11-14 | 2018-03-15 |
| DAVIES, David John, Sir | Director | 1998-01-06 | 2005-07-20 |
| FARR, Jeremy Russell | Director | 2016-05-14 | 2018-09-27 |
| FORSYTH, Andrew Hamish | Director | 2010-01-21 | 2017-11-01 |
| GARRETT, David William James | Director | 2001-10-03 | 2014-03-14 |
| KANE, Emma Victoria | Director | 2013-03-13 | 2017-11-01 |
| KANI, Wasfi | Director | 1998-01-06 | 2015-07-21 |
| LANGRIDGE, Philip Gordon | Director | 1998-01-06 | 1998-11-10 |
| SHEEHY, Mary-Ann, Hon Mrs | Director | 1998-01-06 | 2012-12-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 132 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-03-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-03-12 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-03-12 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+16.7%
£2,310,581 £2,696,584
-
Net assets
+3.1%
£15,213,140 £15,689,573
-
Employees
+1%
99 100
-
Profit before tax
-155.3%
£404,497 -£223,681
-
Wages
+9.7%
£383,550 £420,728
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