THE WILLIAM SYSON FOUNDATION
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£39K
-75% vs 2023
Net assets
£13M
-0.2% vs 2023
Employees
2
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£294K
+2.8% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | -£704,701 | -£724,823 | |
| Profit before tax | -£301,977 | -£293,665 | |
| Net profit | £219,887 | -£25,534 | |
| Cash | £157,861 | £39,424 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £12,719,512 | £12,698,978 | |
| Net assets | £12,674,512 | £12,648,978 | |
| Equity | £12,674,512 | £12,648,978 | |
| Average employees | 2 | 2 | |
| Wages | £57,042 | £78,754 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | -5.5% | -5.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.93x | 0.44x |
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
- CT Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees can confirm that having taken into account the high levels of reserves of the Charity and its existing levels of grant and other cost commitments, they are satisfied that it remains a going concern.”
Significant events
- “The Charity began a strategic development process in 2024, which resulted in an agreed new focused purpose to support our future grantmaking.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COCKBURN, Howard | Director | 2019-09-20 | Jan 1973 | British |
| DOYLE, Roberta | Director | 2020-11-10 | Jan 1960 | British |
| HOLLOWAY, James Essex | Director | 2019-09-20 | Nov 1948 | British |
| MORRISON, Maureen Stringer | Director | 2019-09-20 | Mar 1948 | British |
| SYSON, Jonathan William Thomas | Director | 2019-09-20 | May 1980 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARNOT, Ian | Director | 2021-08-20 | 2026-01-17 |
| RYDER, Elizabeth Jane | Director | 2021-08-20 | 2023-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 20 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-08-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-08-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-06-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-01-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-21 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2019-09-20 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
—
Not reported
-
Cash
-75%
£157,861 £39,424
-
Net assets
-0.2%
£12,674,512 £12,648,978
-
Employees
0%
2 2
-
Operating profit
-2.9%
-£704,701 -£724,823
-
Profit before tax
+2.8%
-£301,977 -£293,665
-
Wages
+38.1%
£57,042 £78,754
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