SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST UK
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-04-09
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£5M
-29.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
+73% vs 2024
Employees
6
+20% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-03-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-04-09.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST UK 2024-09-17 → present
- THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST 2003-06-09 → 2024-09-17
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £165,437 | £222,901 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £1,427,163 | £6,345,463 | |
| Cash | £7,830,093 | £5,494,985 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,686,502 | £15,031,965 | |
| Net assets | £8,686,502 | £15,031,965 | |
| Equity | £8,686,502 | £15,031,965 | |
| Average employees | 5 | 6 | |
| Wages | £189,750 | £223,904 |
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 | 862.7% | 2846.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.94x | 12.34x |
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
“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.”
Group structure
- SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST UK · parent
- Sheldrick Trading Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Charity changed its name on 1 August 2024 from The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust UK.”
- “The Charity continued a collaboration with Elephant Family, which began with the inclusion of two sculptured African Elephant within a herd of 100 sculptured Asian Elephants in The Great Elephant Migration (GEM). Launched in July 2024...”
- “Hello in Elephant, an online application developed a few years prior to change the conversation around elephant conservation by focusing on the risk of losing the elephant language, was relaunched in 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHELDRICK, Angela Mara | Secretary | 2003-06-09 | — | British |
| CARR-HARTLEY, Robert James | Director | 2003-06-09 | Jul 1961 | Kenyan |
| PITMAN, Henry John | Director | 2015-05-04 | Oct 1962 | British |
| RONALDSHAY, Hetti, Countess Of Ronaldshay | Director | 2020-12-14 | Oct 1962 | British |
| SHELDRICK, Angela Mara | Director | 2003-06-09 | Jul 1963 | British |
| SMITH, Stephen, Colonel | Director | 2023-05-24 | Oct 1949 | American |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARK, James Spencer | Secretary | 2004-06-17 | 2018-06-25 |
| MILLS, Catherine | Secretary | 2003-06-09 | 2004-06-17 |
| SHELDRICK, Daphne Marjorie, Dame | Director | 2003-06-09 | 2018-06-25 |
| WALTER, Sarah Jane Elizabeth | Director | 2019-03-18 | 2020-02-05 |
| WATSON, Rupert William Milvain | Director | 2003-06-09 | 2004-06-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dame Daphne Majorie Sheldrick | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-04-12 |
| Mrs Angela Mara Sheldrick | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 85 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-01-30 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-01-30 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-01-30 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-01-30 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2024-09-26 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-09-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-09-17 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2024-09-17 CONNOT Change of name notice
- 2024-07-18 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-07-18 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-01-30 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-01-30 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-01-30 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-26 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-09-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-17 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-09-17 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2024-09-17 | MISC | miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | |
| 2024-07-18 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-18 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-04-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-03-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-19 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-05-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
+34.7%
£165,437 £222,901
-
Cash
-29.8%
£7,830,093 £5,494,985
-
Net assets
+73%
£8,686,502 £15,031,965
-
Employees
+20%
5 6
-
Wages
+18%
£189,750 £223,904
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