THE KOESTLER TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-12 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£528K
-14.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£2M
+0.1% vs 2024
Employees
14
-17.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-03-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £813,554 | £964,272 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£35,594 | £2,521 | |
| Cash | £615,618 | £528,082 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,842,430 | £1,844,951 | |
| Net assets | £1,842,430 | £1,844,951 | |
| Equity | £1,842,430 | £1,844,951 | |
| Average employees | 17 | 14 | |
| Wages | £451,492 | £443,522 |
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 | -4.4% | 0.3% | |
| Current ratio | 2.42x | 2.23x |
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
- Knox Cropper LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- THE KOESTLER TRUST · parent
- Koestler (Sales) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “3,666 people entered the 2024 Koestler Awards, from 309 community and custodial settings.”
- “Our membership programme for people in custody or on community settings, 'Associates', had over 700 active members.”
- “In 2024, 15% of the 83 judges for the Koestler Awards had lived experience of prison, and for the first time, we recruited openly to the judging panel, offering a targeted opportunity for under-25s.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 43 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CURRAN, Fiona | Secretary | 2023-03-23 | — | — |
| BACON, Sally Elizabeth | Director | 2023-09-28 | Nov 1964 | British |
| BADLEY, Gary Anthony | Director | 2023-03-23 | Jul 1969 | British |
| BOOTH, Jasmin Charlotte | Director | 2021-12-09 | Nov 1991 | British |
| CAMPBELL, Thomas Robert | Director | 2022-09-29 | Aug 1987 | British |
| DELLER, Jeremy | Director | 2025-07-22 | Mar 1966 | British |
| FROST, Amy | Director | 2025-03-27 | May 1984 | British |
| HEATON, Richard Nicholas, Sir | Director | 2021-03-11 | Oct 1965 | British |
| LARAKI, Nora, Dr | Director | 2021-12-09 | Sep 1991 | German |
| MANSFIELD, Gary | Director | 2019-06-26 | Apr 1968 | British |
| NYAME-SATTERTHWAITE, Page | Director | 2021-12-09 | Sep 1995 | British |
| PETERS, Carrie Ann | Director | 2023-06-29 | Oct 1968 | British |
Show 43 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTSON, Timothy John | Secretary | 2006-10-23 | 2015-04-13 |
| SALMON, Dorothy | Secretary | 2003-11-12 | 2006-10-23 |
| TAYLOR, Sally Margaret | Secretary | 2015-04-13 | 2023-03-23 |
| BANKES, Ariane | Director | 2023-03-23 | 2024-03-26 |
| BANKES, Ariane | Director | 2004-01-26 | 2022-12-14 |
| BANKS, David | Director | 2014-12-10 | 2022-12-14 |
| BENNETT, Peter John, Dr | Director | 2006-06-27 | 2012-03-01 |
| BIRNBERG, Benedict Michael | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2013-05-01 |
| BOWLBY, Nicholas Salvin | Director | 2004-11-06 | 2021-12-09 |
| BROWN, Alistair John | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2005-02-08 |
| CHAMBERS, Stephen Lyon | Director | 2013-05-22 | 2021-12-09 |
| CHEATLE, Zelda Jean | Director | 2004-02-23 | 2020-06-24 |
| CLARK, Charles Graham | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2004-05-28 |
| CULLINAN, Edward Horder | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2013-05-01 |
| DUNN, Douglas Eaglesham, Professor | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2007-05-23 |
| EBAN, Mark Vivyan | Director | 2005-03-09 | 2005-11-29 |
| GILLESPIE, Jane | Director | 2018-12-11 | 2022-12-14 |
| GRAEF, Roger Arthur | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2005-11-29 |
| GUGGENHEIM, Anna Maeve | Director | 2005-04-26 | 2005-11-29 |
| HARDWICK, Carl David | Director | 2018-06-28 | 2025-03-27 |
| HARRINGTON, Illtyd | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2005-07-01 |
| HILL, Roger Jonathan | Director | 2019-10-03 | 2021-12-09 |
| KAVANAGH, Patricia | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2005-02-14 |
| KEELING, Femi | Director | 2016-10-13 | 2020-09-24 |
| KIRBY, Robert Iain | Director | 2014-12-10 | 2016-03-10 |
| KIRBY, Robert | Director | 2005-03-18 | 2005-11-29 |
| LATTIMORE, Andrew George | Director | 2014-12-10 | 2018-06-28 |
| LINKLATER OF BUTTERSTONE, Veronica | Director | 2004-11-01 | 2005-11-29 |
| MONAHAN, Erwin James | Director | 2016-10-13 | 2018-12-11 |
| MOSES, The Rt Hon Lord Justice | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2005-11-29 |
| NAHAPIET, Herbert Neville | Director | 2004-12-15 | 2018-12-11 |
| OWERS, Anne Elizabeth, Dame | Director | 2014-12-10 | 2022-12-14 |
| PARKHOUSE, Jonathan William | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2011-12-31 |
| PILLING, Joseph Grant, Sir | Director | 2006-09-25 | 2013-12-17 |
| RAMSBOTHAM, Lord | Director | 2004-01-19 | 2006-09-25 |
| ROSE, Andrea Lester | Director | 2014-12-10 | 2025-03-27 |
| SELBY, Michael Francis Guy | Director | 2003-11-12 | 2005-09-28 |
| SIMMONDS, John Anthony Edward | Director | 2003-12-02 | 2004-10-21 |
| SOLOMON, Nicola | Director | 2021-12-09 | 2023-05-19 |
| TAYLOR, Robert Antonia | Director | 2014-12-10 | 2022-06-30 |
| TUMIM, Stephen, Sir | Director | 2003-11-12 | 2003-12-08 |
| WHISKIN, Nigel | Director | 2004-11-06 | 2005-11-29 |
| ZOGOLOVITCH, Carola | Director | 2003-11-12 | 2013-05-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 154 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-05-25 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-05-25 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-05-25 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-31 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-25 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-05-25 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-05-25 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-05-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-29 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-29 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
-
Turnover
+18.5%
£813,554 £964,272
-
Cash
-14.2%
£615,618 £528,082
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£1,842,430 £1,844,951
-
Employees
-17.6%
17 14
-
Wages
-1.8%
£451,492 £443,522
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