THE POWELL-COTTON TRUST

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

1. THE POWELL-COTTON TRUST 2019-04-09 → present
2. THE POWELL-COTTON MUSEUM 2016-01-04 → 2019-04-09

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

Moore Kingstone Smith LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. THE POWELL-COTTON TRUST · parent
   1. The Quex Park Estates Company Limited 47.08% · United Kingdom · farming and estate management

Significant events

• “The Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens is transitioning through a complex period of change and growth as a result of the Museum becoming entitled to a substantial legacy in the form of a fifty percent share in the Powell-Cotton Settled Estate.”
• “Both parties, together with the administrators of the estate successfully reached an agreement and the estate was vested on the 23rd October 2024. As a result, the appeal has been discontinued.”
• “As at 31/03/2025 there were capital commitments of £482,816 in relation to the MEND project.”

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

Filings

12

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

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

  +22.4%

  £24,079 → £29,479

• Cash

  +809%

  £44,366 → £403,272

• Net assets

  +312.2%

  £6,633,728 → £27,341,731

• Employees

  0%

  29 → 29

• Operating profit

  +943.9%

  £1,672,607 → £17,459,640

• Profit before tax

  +908.5%

  £1,787,442 → £18,026,747

• Wages

  +15.5%

  £484,295 → £559,536

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