THE WILDHEART 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

Bright Brown Ltd

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 group's or charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. THE WILDHEART TRUST · parent
   1. The Wildheart Trust Trading Limited 100% · England and Wales · operates the sanctuary's café and retail shop, and other trading activities

Significant events

• “2024 saw the launch of our biggest rescue challenge yet, to rescue 2 Brown Bears from a concrete pit in Azerbaijan. By the end of 2024, the facility was c complete and is set to be one of the best in the UK including ponds, streams, caves, hills and fully grown trees.”
• “Wildheart appeared on the front cover of UK Architecture Today as a bastion of regenerative design and nature friendly build techniques for the UK and further afield, becoming an advisor to many sectors on such practices.”
• “We ran the second FOCAS (Focus On Conservation And Science) festival in June, in collaboration with Wonderseekers, to showcase to younger audiences current conservation challenges in the world and how science and behavioural change can help to address them.”
• “The 100% plant-based café thrived in 2024, winning a national award for tearoom and café of the year in the Beautiful South Awards and seeing visitors to the café surge as word spread.”
• “2024 saw us build on the successes of our 2023 outreach programmes, delivering another round of completely free educational sessions to every school on the Island in partnership with Forestry England.”
• “In October, we opened the Islands first White-Clawed Crayfish arc site, in partnership with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.”
• “Globally, our objective to end animal cruelty continued with the SERVIVAL campaign whose aim is to ban the breeding of exotic cats, like Servals, with domestic cats to produce hybrid cats, like the Savannah cat. This work stream, run by DEFRAs animal welfare committee, concluded in a report released in November that the Government should ban hybridisation of exotic and domestic cats.”
• “In support of the SERVIVAL campaign, Wildheart led on the 2nd World Serval Day on 18th March, to raise public awareness of the issues with hybrid cats, engaging more stakeholders than ever and increasing global audience reach to over 2 million.”

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

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

  +12.6%

  £459,253 → £517,256

• Cash

  +41.4%

  £523,440 → £740,288

• Net assets

  +19.6%

  £1,082,033 → £1,293,906

• Employees

  +11.4%

  44 → 49

• Operating profit

  +298.1%

  -£105,175 → £208,304

• Profit before tax

  +303.3%

  -£104,225 → £211,873

• Wages

  +12.4%

  £723,726 → £813,146

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