MUSEUM OF LONDON ARCHAEOLOGY
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-01 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
-54.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£975K
+187.4% vs 2024
Employees
307
-27.8% 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 | £22,320,357 | £19,434,305 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£1,456,114 | £636,001 | |
| Cash | £2,651,575 | £1,199,029 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £839,471 | £1,225,472 | |
| Net assets | £339,471 | £975,472 | |
| Equity | £339,471 | £975,472 | |
| Average employees | 425 | 307 | |
| Wages | £13,225,854 | £9,644,044 |
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 | -6.5% | 3.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 95.7% | 86.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.06x | 1.15x |
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
- Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited
- 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
- MUSEUM OF LONDON ARCHAEOLOGY · parent
- MOLA Northampton Limited 100%
Significant events
- “We undertook a major restructure of MOLA in the financial year ending March 2024.”
- “Both before and following the general election in July 2024, activity in the construction sector as a whole was sluggish and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty (conflict overseas and tariff risks) has also proved a drag on growth in the construction sector*”
- “During the 2024/2025 year we maintained the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan and continued making regular monthly repayments.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMENT, Sharon Ann | Director | 2012-09-18 | Sep 1962 | British |
| COBY, Paul Jonathan | Director | 2024-09-12 | Oct 1955 | British |
| COPLOWE, Michael | Director | 2024-09-12 | Apr 1986 | British |
| DURWARD, Keith James | Director | 2024-09-12 | Feb 1959 | British |
| FARID, Shahina | Director | 2021-03-29 | Oct 1962 | British |
| HOPKINS, Dominic Adrian | Director | 2024-09-12 | Oct 1964 | British |
| JONES, Alison Jennifer | Director | 2024-09-12 | Sep 1986 | British |
| MCGUINNESS, Victoria Nicole, Dr | Director | 2018-02-15 | Aug 1982 | British |
| RODGERS, Paul David | Director | 2023-03-23 | Jun 1962 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVERLY, Joanna Joy | Director | 2014-01-21 | 2018-05-22 |
| BEAR, Michael David, Sir | Director | 2013-05-01 | 2014-12-25 |
| BELL, Carol, Dr | Director | 2020-07-10 | 2024-12-05 |
| BLOMFIELD-SMITH, Rosamund Evelyn | Director | 2014-11-06 | 2023-02-20 |
| BOLOT, Timothy James | Director | 2011-08-24 | 2011-09-21 |
| BROODBANK, Cyprian, Professor | Director | 2021-07-01 | 2025-07-25 |
| COOPER, Malcolm Ashton | Director | 2011-08-24 | 2011-09-21 |
| EWELL, Melvyn | Director | 2020-07-10 | 2023-05-18 |
| FULFORD, Michael Gordon, Professor | Director | 2011-08-24 | 2014-08-25 |
| GOWMAN, Alison Jane | Director | 2014-06-06 | 2020-12-22 |
| GROEN, Maria Helena | Director | 2011-10-26 | 2018-10-12 |
| HICKS, Dan | Director | 2018-09-06 | 2019-12-14 |
| HOFFMAN, Alan Michael | Director | 2011-08-24 | 2018-12-11 |
| LOHMAN, Jack Christopher, Professor | Director | 2011-08-24 | 2012-03-22 |
| LOVE, Graham Carvell | Director | 2019-10-17 | 2023-03-23 |
| MCKEE, William Arthur | Director | 2016-02-24 | 2025-01-31 |
| RODGERS, Paul David | Director | 2019-03-07 | 2020-12-22 |
| SORENSEN, Kenneth Eric Correll | Director | 2011-08-24 | 2014-08-24 |
| SPENCE, David Jonathan | Director | 2012-03-23 | 2013-06-11 |
| STEWART, Peter John | Director | 2015-03-01 | 2020-12-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 95 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-09-27 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-20 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-08-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-02-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-27 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-12.9%
£22,320,357 £19,434,305
-
Cash
-54.8%
£2,651,575 £1,199,029
-
Net assets
+187.4%
£339,471 £975,472
-
Employees
-27.8%
425 307
-
Wages
-27.1%
£13,225,854 £9,644,044
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