THE POWELL-COTTON TRUST
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Cash
£403K
+809% vs 2024
Net assets
£27M
+312.2% vs 2024
Employees
29
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£18M
+908.5% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,079 | £29,479 | +22.4% | |
| Operating profit | £1,672,607 | £17,459,640 | +943.9% | |
| Profit before tax | £1,787,442 | £18,026,747 | +908.5% | |
| Net profit | £1,787,442 | £18,026,747 | +908.5% | |
| Cash | £44,366 | £403,272 | +809% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,633,728 | £27,341,731 | +312.2% | |
| Net assets | £6,633,728 | £27,341,731 | +312.2% | |
| Equity | £6,633,728 | £27,341,731 | +312.2% | |
| Average employees | 29 | 29 | 0% | |
| Wages | £484,295 | £559,536 | +15.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 25.2% | 63.9% | |
| Current ratio | 22.98x | 42.44x | |
| Interest cover | 76.60x | — |
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. Margin ratios are hidden where reported turnover is too small relative to profit to yield a meaningful figure — typical of holding companies whose income is mostly subsidiary dividends rather than trading revenue. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE POWELL-COTTON TRUST 2019-04-09 → present
- THE POWELL-COTTON MUSEUM 2016-01-04 → 2019-04-09
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Moore Kingstone Smith LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- THE POWELL-COTTON TRUST · parent
- The Quex Park Estates Company Limited 47.08%
Significant events
- “The Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens is transitioning through a complex period of change and growth as a result of the Museum becoming entitled to a substantial legacy in the form of a fifty percent share in the Powell-Cotton Settled Estate.”
- “Both parties, together with the administrators of the estate successfully reached an agreement and the estate was vested on the 23rd October 2024. As a result, the appeal has been discontinued.”
- “As at 31/03/2025 there were capital commitments of £482,816 in relation to the MEND project.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASHLEY, Ceri Zaria, Dr | Director | 2024-02-01 | Mar 1977 | British |
| CAMPBELL, Patrick Donaldson | Director | 2024-11-19 | Dec 1965 | British |
| CARR, Donna | Director | 2025-07-16 | Feb 1970 | British |
| GIDDINS, Rod | Director | 2025-07-16 | Mar 1951 | British |
| MAY, Rachel Christina | Director | 2025-07-16 | May 1979 | British |
| PATERSON, Kirsty | Director | 2024-02-01 | May 1973 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVINE, Thomas Toby | Director | 2018-03-27 | 2019-08-05 |
| HARRISON, Andrew Donald | Director | 2018-03-27 | 2024-12-17 |
| HERFORD, George Oscar | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2016-09-27 |
| HIBBERD, Charles | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2017-09-19 |
| MARVIN, Garry Robert, Professor | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2025-03-18 |
| REDWOOD, Gregory Nathan | Director | 2018-03-27 | 2025-11-03 |
| ROWSON, Martin George Edmund | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2019-12-18 |
| SABIN, Clare Alexandra | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2025-07-16 |
| SKINNER, Matthew, Dr | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2020-08-15 |
| SPRING, Chris James, Dr | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2018-07-29 |
| TURVEY, Samuel Thomas, Professor | Director | 2024-02-01 | 2025-03-18 |
| WHITTLE, Matthew, Dr | Director | 2024-02-01 | 2025-10-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 58 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-10-12 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-10-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-12 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-10-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-08-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-04-30 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-30 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-16 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 3
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.