YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK

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  Confirmation statement overdue

  Due 2026-02-09.

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

Hawsons Chartered Accountants

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Board has taken consideration of factors determining going concern for the Charity and its subsidiary with reference to reviewing the 2024-25 year-end financial position together with regular management accounts, cashflows and forecasts for the period thereafter. The board have looked at a period of twelve months following the filing date of the report and accounts and major emphasis was given to looking at risks that may impair the liquidity and solvency of the charity. This has informed the Board to provide sufficient confidence and consequently the Trustees consider that it is appropriate to prepare these financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK · parent
   1. YSP Trading Limited 100% · Operates retail and catering functions whose profits are gifted back to the Charity.

Significant events

• “in 2024-25 we welcomed 216,560 visits and in addition engaged with 40,000 people in learning programmes, 35,906 of these being young people.”
• “in October 2025, YSP became a Green Tourism accredited site, and was awarded the prestigious Gold Award, demonstrating that YSP meets the highest standards of sustainability and has a strong and broad environmental ethos.”
• “In June 2025, Clare Lilley announced her departure as Director of YSP after 3 years in the role”
• “In September 2025 Joe Penney stepped down from his role as Associate Director: Commercial & Operations after over 20 years”
• “Dr Alex Hodby's role as Head of Programme being made permanent from September 2025”
• “Kate Lockhart has been appointed as Head of Development (September 2025)”
• “YSP is more susceptible to flooding and storm damage and these are ongoing concerns around managing the 500-acre site”
• “Financially, we ended the 2024-25 year in a deficit position.”
• “Alchemies (22 June 2024 - 5 May 2025) by leading contemporary artist Bharti Kher was the headline exhibition”
• “Natural Connection (20 July 2004 - 23 March 2025) by the late renowned artist Dame Elisabeth Frink”
• “Coinciding with Wakefield's 'Our Year' Light Up festival, Our Colour Reflection (15 November 2024 - 5 January 2025) was an immersive work”
• “New Zealand artist Deborah Rundle created a series of work focusing on local histories of West Yorkshire. Soar Away (16 November 2004 – 9 February 2025)”
• “Keepers of Time (9 February 2025 – 13 July 2025) celebrated the majesty of trees”
• “2024 Yorkshire Graduate Award holder for 2024 George Moody spent a two-week residency in the Park”
• “Matt Howard, the 2024-25 YSP / Laureate Fund poet in residence”
• “In March 2024 we launched the Little Wild Wood for creative play.”
• “2024-25 was a challenging year for Development. The Head of Development left in 2023 and although a Development Manager was recruited in September 2023 the team had restricted capacity during the year.”
• “YSP received no complaints in relation to its fundraising activity over the course of the 2024/25 year.”
• “deficit on the consolidated accounts of £154,647 is being reported.”

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

1

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +9.7%

  £6,951,423 → £7,624,380

• Cash

  -17.6%

  £521,669 → £430,055

• Net assets

  -0.7%

  £22,688,192 → £22,533,545

• Employees

  -2.1%

  234 → 229

• Wages

  -3.2%

  £3,531,421 → £3,418,521

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