WHIRLOW HALL FARM TRUST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-05 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-02-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£515K
+11.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£2M
-2.5% vs 2024
Employees
56
+12% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£54K
+14.8% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Staples median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £850,142 | £1,062,069 | |
| Operating profit | -£53,225 | -£43,288 | |
| Profit before tax | -£63,558 | -£54,130 | |
| Net profit | -£63,558 | -£54,130 | |
| Cash | £463,463 | £514,896 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,173,211 | £2,119,081 | |
| Net assets | £2,173,211 | £2,119,081 | |
| Equity | £2,173,211 | £2,119,081 | |
| Average employees | 50 | 56 | |
| Wages | £719,603 | £788,447 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £46,449 | £50,047 |
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
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
-
Turnover
+24.9%
£850,142 £1,062,069
-
Cash
+11.1%
£463,463 £514,896
-
Net assets
-2.5%
£2,173,211 £2,119,081
-
Employees
+12%
50 56
-
Operating profit
+18.7%
-£53,225 -£43,288
-
Profit before tax
+14.8%
-£63,558 -£54,130
-
Wages
+9.6%
£719,603 £788,447
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -6.3% | -4.1% | |
| Net margin | -7.5% | -5.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -2.4% | -2.0% | |
| Current ratio | 4.70x | 4.83x | |
| Interest cover | -3.20x | -2.60x |
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
- Hollis and Co Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trustees have reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- WHIRLOW HALL FARM TRUST LIMITED · parent
- Whirlow Hall Farm Limited 100%
Significant events
- “We delivered over 13,500 student days this year, an increase of 1,100 days on the previous year. Thanks in part to an expansion of programmes into the school holidays - we delivered Sheffield City Council's Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme to children who qualify for free school meals - we had an average of 55 youngsters at the farm each weekday, 50 weeks of the year, a 10% increase on the previous year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 53 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCKERVEY, Martin | Secretary | 2017-07-03 | — | — |
| EDWARDS, Peter David | Director | 2018-08-19 | Apr 1970 | British |
| FACEY, Hugh David | Director | 2015-10-01 | Dec 1945 | British |
| FARMER, Norman Stuart | Director | — | Aug 1945 | British |
| GEMMELL, Kate Louise | Director | 2023-03-01 | Nov 1968 | British |
| MILLS, Joanne | Director | 2024-06-28 | Jul 1965 | English |
| NEW, Carey | Director | 2025-10-02 | May 1973 | British |
| ROSS, Colin Arthur | Director | 2024-11-09 | Dec 1952 | British |
| ZEIDLER, Martin | Director | 2024-05-17 | Jan 1969 | British |
Show 53 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIKIN, Alan | Secretary | — | 2002-05-02 |
| DYSON, Roger Kenneth | Secretary | 2003-11-04 | 2017-07-03 |
| SYKES, Hugh Ridley, Sir | Secretary | — | 1993-02-28 |
| AIKIN, Alan | Director | — | 2002-05-02 |
| AIKIN, Kathleen Margaret | Director | 2004-11-29 | 2024-11-10 |
| AUSTIN, John Richard | Director | 2007-05-29 | 2015-12-31 |
| BAUER, Jonathan Conrad | Director | — | 2003-10-06 |
| BROUWER-INCE, Colin Andrew, Lord | Director | 2011-06-21 | 2016-06-11 |
| BURROWS, Renee | Director | 2000-01-25 | 2006-01-31 |
| CATTELL, Janet Christine | Director | — | 2002-01-15 |
| CROWE, Lynn, Professor | Director | — | 1998-01-20 |
| DAVIS, Francis Henry | Director | — | 1996-01-16 |
| DAWSON, Derek Henry | Director | 2016-02-06 | 2019-09-21 |
| DOUGLAS, Raymond Arthur | Director | 1995-01-17 | 2000-02-03 |
| DOUGLAS, Raymond Arthur | Director | 1993-01-18 | 1994-02-28 |
| DYSON, Roger Kenneth | Director | 1996-01-16 | 2016-12-21 |
| ELLIS, Gillian | Director | 2007-05-29 | 2019-04-22 |
| FIELD, Richard David, Doctor | Director | 1997-01-15 | 1998-01-20 |
| GOFFIN, Nicholas Adrian | Director | 2020-02-01 | 2021-10-27 |
| HARRISON-WALKER, Louisa | Director | 2014-09-24 | 2019-04-22 |
| HEUGH, David | Director | — | 1994-02-28 |
| HILL, Michael Louis | Director | — | 1996-01-16 |
| HIRD, Norma Jean | Director | 2004-11-01 | 2008-05-27 |
| HOLT, Tanya Christina | Director | 2022-09-17 | 2024-11-23 |
| HORTON, Peter | Director | — | 2004-05-24 |
| JAMESON, William Arthur | Director | — | 2000-01-25 |
| JEWITT, Christopher John | Director | 1995-01-17 | 1996-01-16 |
| JOHNSON, Henry Stuart | Director | 2000-01-25 | 2001-01-23 |
| JONES, Jeanette Ann | Director | 1994-01-17 | 2011-10-27 |
| KIRBY, William George | Director | — | 1995-01-17 |
| KRACHAI, Alexis John | Director | 2018-08-19 | 2019-09-21 |
| LECKIE, Suzanne | Director | 2000-01-25 | 2009-06-23 |
| LILLEY, Keith Edmund | Director | 2015-10-01 | 2023-10-01 |
| LIVERSIDGE, Douglas Brian | Director | 1999-01-19 | 2000-01-25 |
| LONGDEN, Ian, Director | Director | — | 2003-04-01 |
| MACDONALD, Neil Andrew | Director | 2010-02-01 | 2016-11-12 |
| OSHIN, Olubukola | Director | 2016-02-06 | 2024-11-23 |
| PEDDER, Anthony Paul | Director | 2004-05-24 | 2016-06-30 |
| PETTIFER, Alexander William | Director | 2003-01-27 | 2015-06-08 |
| ROBINSON, Nicholas Robert Bown | Director | 2011-06-21 | 2019-09-21 |
| RODGERS, Robert | Director | — | 1997-01-15 |
| ROYLE, Graham | Director | 2015-03-28 | 2016-06-11 |
| SHAW, George David Cecil | Director | — | 1992-01-07 |
| SMITH, Vernon John | Director | 2001-01-23 | 2004-11-15 |
| STEVENSON, Emma Elizabeth | Director | 2016-02-06 | 2019-04-22 |
| STONE, David Radcliffe | Director | 1996-01-16 | 1997-01-15 |
| SYKES, Hugh Ridley, Sir | Director | — | 1992-01-07 |
| TEAR, Paul James | Director | 1998-01-20 | 1999-01-19 |
| UPTON, Albert Bryan | Director | 1994-02-28 | 2004-10-05 |
| WELDON, David Kenneth | Director | 2002-06-24 | 2014-05-25 |
| WHITE, Jill | Director | 2004-11-01 | 2014-01-31 |
| WILLINGHAM, Derrick | Director | 1994-01-17 | 1995-01-17 |
| YOUNG, Alan Godfrey | Director | 2001-01-23 | 2010-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 200 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-10-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-04-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-03-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 0
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.