THE H D H WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST

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

Auditor

Gravita Audit Oxford 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. 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 charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. THE H D H WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST · parent
   1. MD Hamilton (Farms) Limited 100% · UK · farming activities

Significant events

• “The Martin Wills Fund (the Fund) is a linked charity of the Trust (charity number 1117747-1) which is governed by a Scheme of the Charity Commission. The Fund was established by a generous bequest of Martin Wills in the early 1990s. Its Scheme has been amended on several occasions, most recently on 1 April 2025 by resolution which, with the prior approval of the Charity Commission, amended its objects. The previous objects permitted the trustee of the Fund to distribute the income of the fund in accordance with a stipulated 7-yearly cycle. The carefully considered revisions now permit the trustee of the Fund to distribute to the same beneficiaries as set out in the original cycle but with the trustee now being enabled to distribute one-seventh of the income annually.”

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

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -9.4%

  £2,370,667 → £2,147,894

• Cash

  -18.6%

  £2,647,211 → £2,155,080

• Net assets

  -1.2%

  £102,321,393 → £101,121,169

• Employees

  +33.3%

  6 → 8

• Operating profit

  +29.4%

  -£660,673 → -£466,613

• Wages

  +36.2%

  £225,633 → £307,210

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