SOUTH GEORGIA HERITAGE TRUST

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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

BK Plus Audit 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'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. SOUTH GEORGIA HERITAGE TRUST · parent
   1. SGHT (Trading) Ltd 100% · Scotland · Museum shop

Significant events

• “Sir Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley and Tom Crean famously completed a 36-hour non-stop traverse of South Georgia to seek help after the arduous small boat journey from Elephant Island following the sinking of their ship Endurance. Their goal was to reach the Stromness Manager's Villa where they knew that help would be found with the rescue of their comrades on Endurance who were sheltering at King Haakon Bay or still marooned on Elephant Island.”
• “Over 175,000 whales were slaughtered at South Georgia in the years of the whaling industry, from 1904 to the mid-1960s. This emptied the seas around the island of whales and for many years they were a rare sight. Only in recent times, with protection of South Georgia's waters, have whales made a welcome return in numbers. In late 2025 we plan to install part one of a whale memorial called Commensalis: The Spirit Tables of South Georgia at Grytviken Whaling Station, to commemorate the whales lost but also to celebrate their return.”
• “Following the creation of a "Whalers' Memory Bank" by the South Georgia Museum team, in 2024-25 we held community events for ex-whaling communities in Shetland and Orkney, culminating in many former South Georgia whalers travelling to attend Whale of a Weekend, where the project was officially launched by ambassador Dan Snow.”
• “Whale of a Weekend was a four-day festival in the last weekend of June 2025, which was conceived and delivered by the South Georgia Heritage Trust, in partnership with Dundee Heritage Trust and V&A Dundee. Its aim was to showcase the island of South Georgia and SGHT and FOSGI's conservation work to a new Scottish and international audience, although many folk who had worked on South Georgia or were involved in stakeholder organisations also attended.”
• “In 2024-25 15,520 visitors were welcomed at the South Georgia Museum, a record number. A new exhibition called 'We Are All Whalers' was installed in the museum's Jarvis Room, thanks to funding from Darwin Plus Local.”

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

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

  +22.3%

  £375,990 → £459,915

• Cash

  +71.7%

  £678,280 → £1,164,615

• Net assets

  +138%

  £1,105,549 → £2,631,482

• Employees

  0%

  13 → 13

• Operating profit

  +168.3%

  £561,570 → £1,506,692

• Profit before tax

  +168.3%

  £561,570 → £1,506,692

• Wages

  +8.9%

  £429,105 → £467,342

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