MAST-SCOTLAND

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

  +645.1%

  £79,063 → £589,092

• Cash

  +24.8%

  £193,203 → £241,176

• Net assets

  +14.8%

  £190,605 → £218,772

• Employees

  —

  Not reported

• Operating profit

  +292.8%

  -£14,010 → £27,013

• Profit before tax

  +292.8%

  -£14,010 → £27,013

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

Auditor

Thomson Cooper

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “MAST-Scotland (MAST-S) is acting as an effective legal and charitable entity receiving income from a variety of sources which relate to its charitable objectives.”
• “MAST-S successfully commissioned the SharkScape Project with funding from Shell UK. A consortium of MASTS member organisations led by Edinburgh Napier University will conduct this three year research project designed to better understand the distribution and ecology of key shark and ray species in the NE Atlantic.”
• “Subject to a review of the cost benefits of European Marine Board (EMB) Membership, the MAST-S Board made the decision to withdraw from the EMB. Under the terms of EMB membership MAST-S will remain a member until March 2026.”
• “MAST-S currently has MoUs with Canadian and Japanese organisations. MAST-S secured Observer Status at the COP26 event in Glasgow in 2021 and retains this status for subsequent COP events.”
• “As part of MAST-S strategic role in supporting education and capacity building, it is exploring the potential to attract philanthropic funding with a view to establishing an endowment fund to support the MASTS Graduate School in perpetuity.”
• “In 2024, The Crown Estate Scotland joined MASTS and MAST-S as Associate Members. Queens University Belfast also joined as Full members.”
• “Due to financial difficulties, the Universities of Dundee and Essex reluctantly withdrew from membership with the intension of rejoining at a later date.”

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

Filings

13

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

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