NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING

1. NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING 2018-08-02 → present
2. WRITERS' CENTRE NORWICH 2009-03-06 → 2018-08-02
3. THE NEW WRITING PARTNERSHIP 2004-09-27 → 2009-03-06

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

Abridged

Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)

Auditor

Price Bailey LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“FY 2024/25 was the second year of our new Arts Council England National Portfolio funding agreement for £586,582 per year. This includes £79,006 per annum to deliver new work. This is the core element of our financial sustainability and a vote of confidence from our key funder. This funding had originally been committed from 2023-26, but Arts Council England have recently confirmed that they will extend the current portfolio into 2027/28.”

Group structure

1. NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING · parent
   1. NCW Commercial Ltd 100% · England · primary purpose is to carry out commercial activities to the benefit of National Centre for Writing

Significant events

• “Stepping into Dragon Hall, a programme of capital work and re-interpretation of Dragon Hall, completed in autumn 2024”
• “Our new website (launched in July 2023) continues to see increased traffic and a positive impact”
• “Locally our shared UNESCO city strategy was devised across 2024/25 with key creative and community stakeholders. This will launch in September 2025”
• “We recruited several new trustees to the NCW board in autumn 2024”
• “Arts Council England have recently confirmed that they will extend the current portfolio into 2027/28”
• “We generated a surplus of £27k against a budget of £37k due to a dip in the anticipated number of weddings (12 in 2024/25, compared to 21 in 2023/24)”
• “We hosted our first Dragon Hall Wedding Open House in April, an opportunity for prospective wedding bookers to see the venue”
• “Successful bids in 2024/25 include another Heritage Fund bid (£67k grant) to include activity and drop-in opening hours, as well as a facilitating a new Conservation Management Plan / Vision / Heritage Statement ahead of the 600th anniversary of Dragon Hall (2027)”
• “We also received $50,000 (approx £36,000 at the time of writing) from the Hawthornden Foundation”
• “The coming year sees us look ahead to the 600th anniversary of Dragon Hall (2027), contiguous with the 10th anniversary of NCW”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

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

  -7.1%

  £1,560,736 → £1,450,346

• Cash

  +29.9%

  £444,239 → £577,126

• Net assets

  -3.9%

  £1,975,011 → £1,898,646

• Employees

  +16.7%

  36 → 42

• Wages

  +8.3%

  £578,149 → £626,137

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