THE WOW FOUNDATION

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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

Lindeyer Francis Ferguson 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. 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 and 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 WOW FOUNDATION · parent
   1. TWF Trading Limited 100% · England and Wales · Generation of corporate sponsorship.

Significant events

• “2024/25 has been a big year for WOW in a number of ways. We secured funds to finally develop our long-held ambition of a Global Knowledge Hub and Membership Offer that will enable us to work more effectively as a network of partners across the world.”
• “We turned 15! and celebrated with an evening of conversation and music at the Royal Festival Hall to a packed house of over 4,000 people.”
• “WOW has always included men and boys within our programming, and as part of our welcome at WOW events. As we witness a worrying growth of misogyny, particularly in young boys and it's becoming clear through recent research and evidence that boys and men are struggling in many areas of life, we are re-doubling our focus and inclusion of boys and men.”
• “During 2024/25 work began in earnest to realise our ambition for a Global Knowledge Hub (GKH) and Membership programme enabled by a grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator Programme.”
• “In October 2024, The WOW Show went on tour to four places across the UK - Twickenham, Brighton (shown in image below), Chipping Norton and York. The show was a new idea and we created this tour as a pilot to test the format and responses from audiences.”
• “WOW created a new partnership with Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Festival (ADMAF) in 2024/25. Our first co-developed project was an online forum/workshop that brought together 24 influential women leaders from the ADMAF and WOW's global networks in November 2024.”
• “Seven WOW Think Ins across the North East took place in February 2025 in Newcastle, Durham, Shildon, Stockton and Darlington (images below). People of all ages and from all walks of life were invited to come and help us gather ideas and inspiration for the WOW North East Festival programme in planning for October 2025.”
• “The ninth WOW festival in Pakistan took place in February 2025 at Alhamra Arts Center in Lahore. Described as an ode to the strength, perseverance and reserve of Pakistani women, the two day festival showcased the strides that women and girls are making across the country in the fields of technology, climate change, entrepreneurship and architecture with over 100 speakers and performers.”
• “WOW at 15, Royal Albert Hall Hosted by WOW Founder Jude Kelly CBE, this one-off event was filled with music, thought-provoking conversation and joy welcoming to the stage a host of special guests in a powerful tribute to the incredible achievements of women, girls, and non-binary people across the globe.”
• “The WOW at 15 evening also featured the world premiere of REIGN, a brand new choral work, commissioned by WOW to celebrate our 15th Anniversary, from Errollyn Wallen CBE. The work was performed by 130 intergenerational voices led by Jessie Maryon Davies made up of Lips community choir and young voices from Mulberry School and St Boniface Primary School, to an audience of 4000 people.”
• “The third WOW Athens took place in April, presented by our global partners, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), in collaboration with WOW and the British Council. Over four days, the programme included author and activist Roxane Gay, award-winning American writer Carmen Maria Machado, and producer of the feminist series The Principles of Pleasure Thalia Mavros, alongside films, music (including a performance by Arooj Aftab, the first Pakistani artist to win a Grammy Award), exhibitions, workshops and more.”
• “WOW Baltimore returned on 5 April 2025 for the first time since 2018, taking place at the Rita Rossi Colwell Center and hosted by Notre Dame of Maryland University. The programme celebrated the women who care, build and create Baltimore and included a keynote with Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes, a session on Raising Boys, Leading Change: Men's Role in Society with Equimundo's Gary Barker and a session on Women Redefining Food and Power.”
• “In April, WOW partnered with British Council Turkey and WOW's Global Girls Champion Standard Chartered for a WOW Istanbul event at the British Consulate, hosted by the Consul General Kenan Poleo.”
• “WOW Rotherham returned to the city centre in May for the fourth year running with a day-long free festival with workshops, talks, performances, art exhibitions, pop-ups and a WOW Marketplace taking over the town.”
• “To mark 4 years of the WOW Young Leaders Directory, and the publication of WOW's first anthology of young voices Girls to the World: Letters for Change, WOW launched a digital campaign celebrating the 149 young leaders who have been part of the programme since 2020.”
• “On Friday 11 October WOW celebrated the 12th International Day of the Girl with 300 inspiring women, girls and non-binary taking over the lastminute.com London Eye for a morning of en masse speed mentoring, sharing their dreams, ambitions and challenges as they soared over London.”

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

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

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

  +28.7%

  £1,024,673 → £1,318,624

• Cash

  —

  Not reported

• Net assets

  —

  Not reported

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

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