THE ANNA FREUD CENTRE
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-14 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-25.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£34M
+4.3% vs 2023
Employees
483
+9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
+232.7% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £20,797,384 | £25,513,231 | |
| Operating profit | -£1,066,472 | £1,216,945 | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,014,349 | £1,346,475 | |
| Net profit | -£1,103,221 | £1,404,954 | |
| Cash | £5,709,224 | £4,251,825 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £32,658,974 | £34,063,928 | |
| Net assets | £32,658,974 | £34,063,928 | |
| Equity | £32,658,974 | £34,063,928 | |
| Average employees | 443 | 483 | |
| Wages | £14,029,469 | £15,292,479 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £722,853 | £802,211 |
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
-
Turnover
+22.7%
£20,797,384 £25,513,231
-
Cash
-25.5%
£5,709,224 £4,251,825
-
Net assets
+4.3%
£32,658,974 £34,063,928
-
Employees
+9%
443 483
-
Operating profit
+214.1%
-£1,066,472 £1,216,945
-
Profit before tax
+232.7%
-£1,014,349 £1,346,475
-
Wages
+9%
£14,029,469 £15,292,479
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -5.1% | 4.8% | |
| Net margin | -5.3% | 5.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -3.3% | 3.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 32.4% | 27.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.07x | 1.22x | |
| Interest cover | -54.19x | 61.83x |
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
- HaysMac LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board of Trustees having reviewed the financial position and financial forecasts have concluded that there are sufficient resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of a least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.”
Significant events
- “A particular milestone was the launch of our manifesto, 'Thinking differently', which calls on the government to prioritise prevention and early intervention in mental health care.”
- “This summer, we have received a £1 million donation from the Julia Rausing Trust that will enable us to continue subsidising the service.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
14 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIMANI, Dorothy | Secretary | 2025-08-11 | — | — |
| POSOCCO, Louise | Secretary | 2026-04-20 | — | — |
| BEDFORD, Catherine Anne | Director | 2019-11-12 | Dec 1971 | Canadian |
| CADOGAN, Victoria-Rose | Director | 2023-03-09 | Feb 1975 | British |
| COWDRY, Antonia | Director | 2023-09-19 | Jul 1971 | British |
| EVANS, Andrew Raymond | Director | 2023-03-09 | Jun 1976 | British |
| HUBY, Anne-Marie | Director | 2023-03-09 | Nov 1966 | British |
| HUTCHINSON, Pamela Susan | Director | 2020-12-08 | Nov 1966 | British |
| KAMDAR, Namrata Nayyar | Director | 2023-03-09 | Sep 1976 | British |
| MAYES, Linda, Professor | Director | 2003-07-21 | Oct 1951 | American |
| OPPENHEIMER, Peter | Director | 2008-10-30 | Nov 1963 | British |
| PELTZ, Daniel | Director | 2013-02-26 | Mar 1961 | British |
| PILLING, Stephen, Professor | Director | 2020-07-01 | May 1955 | English |
| SAMUEL, Michael John, The Honorable | Director | 1999-11-04 | Nov 1952 | British |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIDMEAD, Rosalind | Secretary | 2024-12-13 | 2025-08-11 |
| BIDMEAD, Rosalind | Secretary | 1999-08-05 | 2017-12-13 |
| FOWLER, David | Secretary | 2017-08-03 | 2022-03-31 |
| KANU, Ekaete Christine | Secretary | 2022-03-31 | 2024-12-13 |
| ASTOR, Francis David Langhorne, The Honourable | Director | 1999-11-04 | 2001-12-06 |
| ASTOR, Richard David | Director | 2002-09-23 | 2004-01-30 |
| BLOM-COOPER, Louis, Sir | Director | 1999-11-04 | 2003-07-21 |
| CAIRNS, Sally | Director | 2018-02-22 | 2022-09-12 |
| CAPE, John Donald, Dr | Director | 2012-09-12 | 2020-05-20 |
| CHATFIELD, Melanie Jane | Director | 2018-09-12 | 2021-09-07 |
| COLONNA, Alice, Assistant Professor | Director | 1999-11-04 | 2008-03-06 |
| EMANUEL, John Clive Lloyd | Director | 1999-08-05 | 2013-02-26 |
| GOLDSMITH, Hanna Geller | Director | 2012-09-12 | 2013-09-13 |
| JARMAN, Brian, Professor Sir | Director | 1999-11-04 | 2012-07-31 |
| KANTOR, Viatcheslav, Dr | Director | 2017-06-15 | 2022-03-16 |
| KAZDIN, Alan E, Professor | Director | 2004-04-28 | 2006-08-02 |
| KRIS, Anton O, Professor | Director | 2004-08-05 | 2013-02-26 |
| LOFTUS, Nicole | Director | 2018-11-13 | 2021-04-14 |
| SACHER, Elisabeth | Director | 1999-08-05 | 2013-02-26 |
| SANDLER, Anne-Marie | Director | 1999-08-05 | 2013-02-26 |
| SHORTHOUSE, Dominic Hugh | Director | 2014-04-29 | 2024-12-03 |
| SLAYMAN, Carolyn, Prof | Director | 2009-07-15 | 2013-07-15 |
| SOLNIT, Albert J, Professor | Director | 1999-11-04 | 2002-06-21 |
| WAX, Ruby | Director | 2011-11-03 | 2019-06-24 |
| WAY, Adam Gerald Richmond | Director | 2014-12-16 | 2017-10-12 |
| WESTABY, Mark | Director | 2001-05-19 | 2002-12-04 |
| WOOD, Sarah Florence, Dr | Director | 2021-02-08 | 2025-03-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 153 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-07-12 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-07-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-07-04 CC04 Statement of companys objects
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-08-27 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-08-27 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-08-27 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-16 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-12-16 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-12 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-07-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-07-04 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2023-04-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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.