THE MUSTARD TREE

• ⚠

  Confirmation statement overdue

  Due 2026-04-14.

• ◆

  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

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

  -0.4%

  £673,936 → £671,478

• Cash

  +18.6%

  £223,472 → £265,042

• Net assets

  -1.1%

  £2,194,933 → £2,171,682

• Employees

  -4.3%

  47 → 45

• Profit before tax

  +87.7%

  -£189,119 → -£23,251

• Wages

  +0.7%

  £1,213,381 → £1,221,783

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Menzies LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees and Management Team are confident that there is no material uncertainty in relation to going concern”

Significant events

• “In March 2025, the charity has completed Year Two of a Three Year plan”
• “A New Welcome Hub for Refugees, funded by Manchester City Council; the Elevate partnership in Salford, funded via Salford CVS and by the Albert Gubay Foundation Trust and a new 5-year programme with the National Lottery.”
• “increased self-generated income through the development and relaunch of our Community Café that delivered over £60,000 in revenue.”
• “development and roll out of new IT systems for Fundraising and Logistics/Retail have proved fruitful in securing more Gift Aid as this process is automated and easier to use with our customers.”
• “redevelopment of the Café and new IT systems were funded by the loan we secured with Co-op Bank for capital investment in the last financial year.”
• “Last year, 1329 people accessed our New Welcome Hub, and we helped over 100 people into private rented tenancies.”
• “June marked 30 years of Mustard Tree's work in Greater Manchester.”
• “In 2024-25, we increased our impact and the number of people we helped, increased our income, better managed our costs and delivered a small surplus to contribute to reserves.”
• “We conducted a cost reduction plan which meant that we spent over £100,000 less than the previous year through not replacing staff members who left, reducing food costs and renegotiating supplier contracts.”
• “In 2024-25, we increased unrestricted reserves from £74,717 to £119,025 in this financial year and we will add to reserves over the next 12 months.”
• “In 2024-25, Mustard Tree dissolved Stand Firm CIC, a company limited by guarantee that has been dormant and not traded for a number of years.”

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

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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