PAPER FOUNDATION

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

  +108.8%

  £62,498 → £130,526

• Cash

  -28.7%

  £34,628 → £24,701

• Net assets

  +2.8%

  £205,941 → £211,654

  highest in 4 filed years

• Employees

  +50%

  2 → 3

  highest in 4 filed years

• Wages

  +39.1%

  £62,464 → £86,886

  highest in 4 filed years

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. PAPER FOUNDATION 2022-12-09 → present
2. CROPPER PAPER FOUNDATION 2019-01-07 → 2022-12-09
3. CROPPER FOUNDATION 2016-11-23 → 2019-01-07

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Helen Holmes BSc FCA, Stables Thompson & Briscoe Limited

Audit opinion

Unaudited (audit-exempt)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees consider the Foundation and its subsidiary to be financially stable and have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis. Cash balances and forecast income provide adequate resources to support ongoing activities and planned development projects.”

Group structure

1. PAPER FOUNDATION · parent
   1. Paper Workshop Ltd 100% · England and Wales · Paper making

Significant events

• “Our second paper making apprentice, Jonathan Welton, has continued to continue to learn the skills of the craft since his arrival in November 2023. He is now a highly proficient paper maker and an integral part of the mill team. This has allowed us to produce more paper than in previous years, which has had a positive impact on our subsidiary trading income in 2024. We expect this to continue into 2025.”
• “We increased our production of papers made from textile waste over the last 12 months, rediscovering knowledge of the craft that had been lost. The purchase of a textile shredder has allowed us to bring rag processing in house giving us unique paper making capabilities.”
• “In 2024 we also kickstarted our desire to preserve and perpetuate the art of making decorative papers by holding a paste paper workshop at Ellergreen.”
• “The improvements made to the mill building, equipment and heating system have increased working conditions and efficiency in the mill, allowing us to make paper far more consistently than in previous years.”
• “The growing skills number of skilled papermakers, development of new processes and improved infrastructure in the mill have paid off and we are very pleased to feel a critically endangered craft has been rescued from extinction.”
• “The Foundation transferred trading operations and certain assets (£152,991, including £19,408 of heritage assets) to Paper Workshop Ltd.”

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

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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