HAWK CONSERVANCY TRUST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-26 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+4.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£3M
+6.3% vs 2024
Employees
55
+1.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£158K
-48.2% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,886,656 | £1,928,851 | |
| Operating profit | £283,860 | £102,486 | |
| Profit before tax | £304,443 | £157,745 | |
| Net profit | £286,002 | £168,072 | |
| Cash | £1,333,232 | £1,391,021 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,942,437 | £3,041,257 | |
| Net assets | £2,647,925 | £2,815,997 | |
| Equity | £2,647,925 | £2,815,997 | |
| Average employees | 54 | 55 | |
| Wages | £1,020,930 | £1,124,735 |
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 | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 15.0% | 5.3% | |
| Net margin | 15.2% | 8.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 9.6% | 3.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 23.7% | 21.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.79x | 2.74x | |
| Interest cover | 13.29x | 5.54x |
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
- Abridged
- Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)
- Auditor
- Fletcher & Partners
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The trustees have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- HAWK CONSERVANCY TRUST LIMITED · parent
- The Hawk Conservancy Trading Company Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Mr Michael Bolgers death in December 2024. As one of the charity's inaugural trustees, he was a tremendous influence in the charity's early days.”
- “Major Nigel Lewis MBE (deceased November 2024). His work with Barn Owl populations in Salisbury Plain has been inspirational.”
- “Avian Influenza continues to be present in wild bird populations requiring significantly additional biosecurity measures to keep our birds safe.”
- “Since the year end the charity has purchased a property at a cost of £575,000 which has been partly funded by a loan of £350,000 repayable over 10 years.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BERENS, Anya Rodgers | Secretary | 2004-10-28 | — | British |
| CHITTY, John Rogers | Director | 2023-12-01 | Jun 1967 | British |
| DRYDEN, Matthew Scott, Dr | Director | 2011-04-15 | Nov 1958 | British |
| HUGHES, Julia Ann | Director | 2020-03-06 | Sep 1954 | British |
| JOHNSON, Adam Richard | Director | 2004-03-04 | Dec 1958 | British |
| JONES, Scott Richard | Director | 2014-12-12 | Aug 1975 | British |
| KHAN, Gail Elizabeth | Director | 2022-05-27 | Mar 1972 | British |
| O'HAGAN, Anthony Richard | Director | 2019-12-06 | Sep 1967 | British |
| WYLES, Gary John | Director | 2017-07-07 | Oct 1960 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, Ashley | Secretary | 2001-10-12 | 2004-10-28 |
| BEELEY, Fergus Michael Edmund | Director | 2010-07-23 | 2013-08-13 |
| BOLGER, Michael Dennis | Director | 2004-03-04 | 2012-07-21 |
| CREAN, Andrew John | Director | 2004-10-28 | 2014-12-12 |
| CROWE, Maureen | Director | 2004-03-04 | 2009-07-24 |
| ELLICOCK, John Henry | Director | 2004-03-04 | 2015-03-19 |
| GENT, Nicholas Henry | Director | 2014-03-07 | 2020-01-31 |
| HYDE, Helen Mary Elizabeth | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2017-07-07 |
| MATTHEWS, Brian Peter | Director | 2015-12-04 | 2016-12-11 |
| MURN, Campbell | Director | 2002-06-12 | 2004-02-14 |
| PAVIOUR, Marion Elizabeth | Director | 2004-03-04 | 2017-01-31 |
| ROWE, John Julian Brodie | Director | 2004-03-04 | 2013-06-14 |
| SHARP, Denzil Goulding | Director | 2014-07-04 | 2020-12-31 |
| SMITH, Ashley | Director | 2001-10-12 | 2004-02-14 |
| SMITH, Hilary | Director | 2001-10-12 | 2004-03-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 106 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-22 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2022-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-06-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-10-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-02-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-01-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-11-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-04-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-01-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2019-12-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
-
Turnover
+2.2%
£1,886,656 £1,928,851
-
Cash
+4.3%
£1,333,232 £1,391,021
-
Net assets
+6.3%
£2,647,925 £2,815,997
-
Employees
+1.9%
54 55
-
Operating profit
-63.9%
£283,860 £102,486
-
Profit before tax
-48.2%
£304,443 £157,745
-
Wages
+10.2%
£1,020,930 £1,124,735
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