URBAN STUDIES FOUNDATION

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

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Anderson Anderson & Brown Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue its operational existence for the foreseeable future. This is based upon a careful assessment of budgets, cash flows, and award commitments for the next twelve months and having stress tested these on the unlikely event of a substantial reduction in income.”

Group structure

1. URBAN STUDIES FOUNDATION · parent
   1. Urban Studies Journal Limited 100% · publish an academic journal

Significant events

• “A new two-year funding strategy was agreed upon by the Board of Trustees to run until the year end 31 December 2024. This strategy focused on three core funding schemes, several grant holder support schemes, and the continuation of the Writing Urban India initiative.”
• “The Board took the difficult decision to cease the USF's support for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship grant scheme, due to affordability, equity, and operational challenges.”
• “The planned Pandemics and Cities scheme was postponed until the next funding cycle (2025-2026) to allow a re-think around its design as 'Urban Urgencies'.”
• “The 2024 round of the Seminar Series Awards ran over into early 2025.”
• “A new two-year funding strategy for 2025-2026 was agreed upon, designating £1.015m towards core grants and support schemes, maintaining the same level of activity.”

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

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -5.9%

  £925,279 → £870,463

• Cash

  +6%

  £1,077,380 → £1,141,665

• Net assets

  +8.1%

  £5,145,437 → £5,561,012

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

• Operating profit

  +223.7%

  £70,126 → £227,029

• Profit before tax

  +84.8%

  £186,572 → £344,864

• Wages

  +1.3%

  £145,449 → £147,315

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