ALEX FERRY FOUNDATION
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-24 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£104K
-63.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£28M
+29.1% vs 2023
Employees
2
-33.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ALEX FERRY FOUNDATION 2019-05-14 → present
- ALEX FERRY LIMITED 2018-01-11 → 2019-05-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £459,000 | £444,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£478,000 | -£351,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £59,000 | £6,357,000 | |
| Cash | £286,000 | £104,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £21,848,000 | £28,205,000 | |
| Net assets | £21,848,000 | £28,205,000 | |
| Equity | £21,848,000 | £28,205,000 | |
| Average employees | 3 | 2 | |
| Wages | £210,000 | £165,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -104.1% | -79.1% | |
| Net margin | 12.9% | 1431.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -2.2% | -1.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 0.7% | 0.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.88x | 0.90x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Buzzacott Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the end of this reporting year there were no uncertainties about the Foundation continuing as a going concern.”
Significant events
- “As of February 2024, the Board codified a decision to be more flexible in the use of the Foundation's capital, allowing for a strategic and flexible spend down horizon of 20 years, a decision taken in order to provide the Foundation with the operating funds it needs to meet its charitable objectives in a responsive and impactful way. The investment statement for 2025 will be updated to reflect this.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRADBURY, Dominic | Director | 2023-01-01 | Feb 1988 | British |
| EMERSON, John David | Director | 2020-11-11 | Apr 1951 | British |
| GRIFFITHS, Timothy | Director | 2018-10-17 | Aug 1963 | British |
| HOLLAND, Diana Margaret | Director | 2018-12-10 | Jun 1957 | British |
| KHAN, Mahfooz | Director | 2023-01-01 | Nov 1973 | British |
| MCDIARMID, Alasdair James | Director | 2018-09-17 | Oct 1979 | British |
| MCPHEE, Duncan Stewart | Director | 2018-10-17 | Mar 1961 | British |
| ROBERTS, Matthew William | Director | 2023-01-01 | Mar 1987 | British |
| STEVENSON, Colin | Director | 2018-10-17 | Nov 1959 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVANS, Martyn Robert | Director | 2018-12-18 | 2020-05-31 |
| HIBBERT, Steve George | Director | 2018-10-17 | 2022-12-31 |
| HOLMES, Robert Andrew | Director | 2018-10-17 | 2022-12-31 |
| MURDOCH, Ross | Director | 2018-09-17 | 2022-03-04 |
| ROWSE, John Frank | Director | 2018-01-11 | 2024-02-07 |
| SCULLION, Hugh | Director | 2018-01-11 | 2024-02-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Hugh Scullion | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2018-01-11 | Ceased 2019-01-02 |
| Mr John Frank Rowse | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2018-01-11 | Ceased 2019-01-02 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 60 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-04-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-3.3%
£459,000 £444,000
-
Cash
-63.6%
£286,000 £104,000
-
Net assets
+29.1%
£21,848,000 £28,205,000
-
Employees
-33.3%
3 2
-
Operating profit
+26.6%
-£478,000 -£351,000
-
Wages
-21.4%
£210,000 £165,000
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