WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF BRITAIN
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-18 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£621K
-92.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£233M
+8.7% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£10M
+129.1% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £324,654 | £3,079,231 | |
| Operating profit | -£32,946,689 | £9,577,779 | |
| Profit before tax | -£32,946,689 | £9,577,779 | |
| Net profit | -£36,237,759 | £18,656,895 | |
| Cash | £8,777,478 | £621,390 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £221,992,747 | £239,858,635 | |
| Net assets | £214,211,184 | £232,868,079 | |
| Equity | £214,211,184 | £232,868,079 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -10148.2% | 311.0% | |
| Net margin | -11162.0% | 605.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -14.8% | 4.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 4.1% | 3.6% | |
| Current ratio | 10.48x | 4.25x | |
| Interest cover | -469.20x | 159.78x |
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
- Auditor
- Xeinadin Audit Ltd
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The trustees are currently of the opinion that the Society is not exposed to a potential lack of going concern as they regularly monitor the financial position.”
Significant events
- “The Trustees are pleased that the Charity Commission's final report was published in August 2023. With the statutory inquiry now fully concluded, the Trustees look forward to continuing with the important charitable activity of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain. The regulatory alert on the Charity Commission's website should be removed by August 4, 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAIRALL, Joel Bruce | Director | 2024-11-01 | Dec 1977 | British |
| LI, Robert | Director | 2015-03-11 | Oct 1972 | English |
| LLEWELLYN, Andrew Jeffery | Director | 2015-03-11 | Jan 1966 | English |
| SAMUELS, Luke Stephen | Director | 2024-08-16 | Apr 1984 | British |
| THOMAS, Luke | Director | 2024-02-01 | May 1980 | British |
| THOMPSON, Benjamin Scott | Director | 2025-02-28 | Aug 1979 | American,British |
| TRYTHALL, Liam Paul | Director | 2025-02-28 | May 1984 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRUSE, Thomas Paul | Secretary | 1999-10-08 | 2008-04-17 |
| BELL, Peter Phillip | Director | 2011-11-02 | 2025-02-28 |
| DOCHERTY, Scott Christopher | Director | 2022-03-01 | 2024-08-16 |
| DOWSON, Jack | Director | 1999-10-08 | 2014-08-20 |
| DRAGE, Ronald | Director | 1999-10-08 | 2014-08-20 |
| ELLIS, Peter | Director | 1999-10-08 | 2014-08-19 |
| GILLIES, Paul Stuart | Director | 2007-08-22 | 2011-11-02 |
| LONGSTAFF, Philip | Director | 2013-10-25 | 2016-04-28 |
| MARAIA, Giosue | Director | 2015-07-29 | 2024-10-31 |
| MORICE, Stephen John | Director | 2015-03-11 | 2025-02-28 |
| RASTALL, Jonathan | Director | 2015-03-11 | 2024-01-31 |
| VIGO, Bevan John | Director | 1999-10-08 | 2015-07-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Andrew Jeffery Llewellyn | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-07-31 |
| Mr Stephen John Morice | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-07-31 |
| Mr Robert Li | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-07-31 |
| Mr Peter Phillip Bell | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-07-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 124 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-04-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-04-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-04-04 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-11-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-04-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-04-04 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-02-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-01 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 1
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
-
Turnover
+848.5%
£324,654 £3,079,231
-
Cash
-92.9%
£8,777,478 £621,390
-
Net assets
+8.7%
£214,211,184 £232,868,079
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+129.1%
-£32,946,689 £9,577,779
-
Profit before tax
+129.1%
-£32,946,689 £9,577,779
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