ENGLISH PEN

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Knox Cropper LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period. They have considered the impact of external influences such as the cost-of-living crisis on both its income and expenditure for at least a period of twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “English PEN engaged across programmes and in conversation with communities to ensure continued work towards vision, one that celebrates the diversity of literature, and envisions a world with free expression and equity of opportunity for all readers and writers.”
• “Prizes in 2024/25 included the PEN Pinter Prize, PEN Hessel-Tiltman Prize, and the launch of the new PEN Heaney Prize in 2024.”
• “Events ranged from hosting Palestinian bookseller Mahmoud Muna at London's Union Chapel to poetry events at Oxford's Diverse Poetry Festival, reaching over 9,700 people.”
• “Campaigns focused on calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and developing support for writers undergoing harassment in the UK.”
• “Welcomed the long overdue release of Julian Assange.”
• “Hosted residencies for international authors in 2024/25, including Ukrainian journalist Anna Romandash and PEN Belarus Director Taciana Niadbaj.”
• “Translation work continued with PEN Translates and the recently launched PEN Presents.”

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

Filings

10

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

5

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -47.6%

  £696,542 → £365,166

• Cash

  -19.4%

  £1,391,123 → £1,121,749

• Net assets

  -15.7%

  £1,594,367 → £1,343,650

• Employees

  +11.1%

  9 → 10

• Wages

  +22%

  £357,354 → £435,868

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