KATHERINE LOW SETTLEMENT LIMITED

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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  2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

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

• Turnover

  +14.8%

  £866,372 → £994,469

• Cash

  -16.7%

  £542,947 → £452,538

• Net assets

  +3.2%

  £3,609,644 → £3,724,653

• Employees

  -2.9%

  34 → 33

• Wages

  +5%

  £757,492 → £795,547

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

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.

1. KATHERINE LOW SETTLEMENT LIMITED 2001-12-10 → present
2. THE KATHERINE LOW SETTLEMENT LIMITED 1999-07-27 → 2001-12-10

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Thompson Jenner LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have reviewed the financial position of the charitable company as of 31st March 2025 together with the budget, income and expenditure, cash flow and investments, for the period April 2025 to March 2026 inclusively. The Trustees consider that the budgets are reasonable, and that the charity has sufficient reserves and cash resources in order to continue as a going concern.”

Significant events

• “The Heart of Battersea - 100 Years of Katherine Low Settlement documentary was created with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.”
• “KLS 5-year strategy 2023-2027 was launched in January 2023, with work towards 2027 goals underway.”
• “Tech Up celebrated 100 years of tech to coincide with KLS' 100th birthday, including a visit to the Science Museum.”
• “In summer 2024, KLS had a successful summer programme with over 282 children and their families attending trips and activities.”
• “The long-running ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) programme was paused at the end of the academic year, resulting in farewells to valued colleagues.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.