THE DRW FOUNDATION
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-09 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-25
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£434K
+182.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
+143.9% vs 2023
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £1,173,828 | £1,625,356 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £1,276,926 | £1,844,515 | |
| Cash | £153,328 | £433,772 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £1,282,026 | £3,126,541 | |
| Equity | £1,282,026 | £3,126,541 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+182.9%
£153,328 £433,772
-
Net assets
+143.9%
£1,282,026 £3,126,541
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+38.5%
£1,173,828 £1,625,356
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current ratio | 3.70x | 3.58x |
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
- Charities SORP FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Sayer Vincent LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“the trustees believe that there is a reasonable expectation that the Foundation will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future; they have thus continued to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Significant events
- “On 3 March 2025, David Woodburn made donations to the Foundation of Management Shares in the AKO European Long-only Fund Limited and the AKO Fund Limited with values of, respectively, £1,374,854 and £475,866.”
- “On 1 April 2025 David Woodburn donated Management Shares in the AKO Fund Limited with a value of £350,000 to the Foundation.”
- “On 3 March 2025 Ruth Woodburn donated Management Shares in the AKO Fund Limited with a value of £200,000 to the Foundation.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMAT, Richard James Anthony | Director | 2022-04-26 | Apr 1962 | British |
| WOODBURN, David Matthew | Director | 2022-04-26 | Feb 1962 | British |
| WOODBURN, Ruth Caroline | Director | 2022-04-26 | Aug 1965 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Matthew Woodburn | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2022-04-26 | Active |
| Ruth Caroline Woodburn | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2022-04-26 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 20 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-11-29 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2022-11-29 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-11-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-11-08 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-11-07 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2022-11-02 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-10-31 CC04 Statement of companys objects
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-04-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-19 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2022-11-29 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2022-11-29 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-11-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-11-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-11-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-11-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-11-08 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-11-07 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2022-11-02 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-10-31 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2022-05-09 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2022-04-26 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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.