THE MACROBERT TRUST 2019
Get an alert when THE MACROBERT TRUST 2019 files next
Leroy will email you the moment a new filing lands at Companies House — one short note per filing, nothing else.
Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-26 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+136.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£99M
-0.2% vs 2024
Employees
61
-6.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-04-30
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £2,007,405 | £2,007,461 | |
| Operating profit | £38,666 | £32,703 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £5,385,649 | -£401,339 | |
| Cash | £650,330 | £1,537,090 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £100,568,950 | £100,042,344 | |
| Net assets | £99,655,919 | £99,407,951 | |
| Equity | £99,655,919 | £99,407,951 | |
| Average employees | 65 | 61 | |
| Wages | £1,700,671 | £1,842,158 |
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.9% | 1.6% | |
| Net margin | 268.3% | -20.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.96x | 1.82x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Henderson Loggie LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' 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 parent 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
- THE MACROBERT TRUST 2019 · parent
- Douneside House Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Four horticulture trainees joined the scheme in September 2024 to undertake their Royal Horticultural Society training and will complete their training in August 2025.”
- “The MacRobert Award for Engineering was presented to Google Deep Mind in July 2024. They have pioneered an Al weather forecasting technology called GraphCast.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLOW, Lucy Rosdew | Director | 2024-11-08 | May 1963 | British |
| BREWER, Paul | Director | 2024-11-08 | Oct 1960 | British |
| CURRIE, Gillian | Director | 2024-11-08 | Aug 1981 | British |
| LEE, Peter James | Director | 2025-11-08 | Jun 1977 | British |
| MACKIE, Sarah Barbara | Director | 2022-11-04 | Jul 1971 | British |
| MASTERTON, Gordon Grier Thomson, Professor | Director | 2020-03-31 | Jun 1954 | British |
| MCCORMICK, Rebecca Claire | Director | 2020-03-31 | Jul 1976 | British |
| MONTGOMERY, James David Keith | Director | 2020-03-31 | Jun 1957 | British |
| SCOTT, Elisabeth | Director | 2023-05-04 | Aug 1962 | British |
| STEELE, Tom | Director | 2023-05-04 | Jul 1987 | British |
| STEVENSON, Charles Bernard Hilton, Commodore | Director | 2020-03-31 | Sep 1950 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPBELL, Sabrina Mary | Director | 2020-03-31 | 2024-11-08 |
| CROLE, Charles Donald | Director | 2020-03-31 | 2023-11-10 |
| FOWLIE, John Douglas | Director | 2019-11-13 | 2023-11-10 |
| GIBSON, William Richmond, Group Captain (Retd) | Director | 2020-03-31 | 2025-11-08 |
| HOCKLEY, Christopher John | Director | 2021-03-23 | 2024-11-08 |
| NOBLE, David Allister John | Director | 2019-11-13 | 2020-11-13 |
| STRICKLAND, John Hilton | Director | 2019-11-13 | 2024-11-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Allister John Noble | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-11-13 | Ceased 2020-11-13 |
| Mr Jon Hilton Strickland | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-11-13 | Ceased 2020-03-30 |
| Mr John Douglas Fowlie | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2019-11-13 | Ceased 2020-03-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 44 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-07-03 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-07-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-10 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2023-12-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-03 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-07-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-06-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
0%
£2,007,405 £2,007,461
-
Cash
+136.4%
£650,330 £1,537,090
-
Net assets
-0.2%
£99,655,919 £99,407,951
-
Employees
-6.2%
65 61
-
Operating profit
-15.4%
£38,666 £32,703
-
Wages
+8.3%
£1,700,671 £1,842,158
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