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Registration number: 06841189

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Accountants' Report

2

Balance Sheet

3 to 4

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements

5 to 9

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

Company Information

Director

Miss C E Holdsworth

Registered office

6 Houndiscombe Road
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 6HH

Accountants

Houndiscombe Consultants Limited
T/A Condy Mathias Chartered Accountants
6 Houndiscombe Road
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 6HH

 

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Director on the Preparation of the Unaudited Statutory Accounts of
Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the accounts of Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited for the year ended 31 March 2023 as set out on pages 3 to 9 from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at
http://www.icaew.com/regulation.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited and its Board of Directors as a body for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory accounts that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited. You consider that Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the accounts of Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory accounts.

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Houndiscombe Consultants Limited
T/A Condy Mathias Chartered Accountants
6 Houndiscombe Road
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 6HH

30 June 2023

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

(Registration number: 06841189)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2023

Note

2023
£

2022
£

Fixed assets

 

Tangible assets

5

8,958

13,856

Current assets

 

Debtors

6

466,178

330,566

Cash at bank and in hand

 

293,413

199,989

 

759,591

530,555

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

7

(324,637)

(222,408)

Net current assets

 

434,954

308,147

Total assets less current liabilities

 

443,912

322,003

Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year

7

(21,687)

(31,667)

Provisions for liabilities

(2,239)

-

Net assets

 

419,986

290,336

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

4

4

Retained earnings

419,982

290,332

Shareholders' funds

 

419,986

290,336

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

(Registration number: 06841189)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2023

For the financial year ending 31 March 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Director's responsibilities:

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476; and

The director acknowledges her responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

These financial statements have been delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime and the option not to file the Profit and Loss Account has been taken.

Approved and authorised by the director on 30 June 2023
 

.........................................

Miss C E Holdsworth

Director

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

1

General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in United Kingdom.

The address of its registered office is:
6 Houndiscombe Road
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 6HH
United Kingdom

The principal place of business is:
City Business Park
Somerset Place
Stoke
Plymouth
Devon
PL3 4BB

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the director on 30 June 2023.

2

Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A smaller entities - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006 (as applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime).

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for the sale of goods and provision of services in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. Turnover is shown net of sales/value added tax, returns, rebates and discounts.

The company recognises revenue when:
The amount of revenue can be reliably measured;
it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity;
and specific criteria have been met for each of the company's activities.

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, except that a change attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between taxable profits and profits reported in the financial statements.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised when it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.

The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class

Depreciation method and rate

Fixtures and fittings

25% reducing balance

Office equipment

25% reducing balance

Computer equipment

3 years straight line

Leases

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

Defined contribution pension obligation

A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the company has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as employee benefit expense when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

3

Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including the director) during the year, was 88 (2022 - 75).

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

4

Other operating income

The analysis of the company's other operating income for the year is as follows:

2023
£

2022
£

Government grants

106

23,895

Miscellaneous other operating income

9,703

-

9,809

23,895

5

Tangible assets

Furniture, fittings and equipment
 £

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 April 2022

39,429

39,429

Additions

6,777

6,777

At 31 March 2023

46,206

46,206

Depreciation

At 1 April 2022

25,573

25,573

Charge for the year

11,675

11,675

At 31 March 2023

37,248

37,248

Carrying amount

At 31 March 2023

8,958

8,958

At 31 March 2022

13,856

13,856

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

6

Debtors

2023
£

2022
£

Trade debtors

121,841

111,777

Prepayments

4,607

5,865

Other debtors

339,730

212,924

466,178

330,566

7

Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Note

2023
£

2022
£

Due within one year

 

Loans and borrowings

8

10,000

10,000

Trade creditors

 

10,283

6,159

Taxation and social security

 

128,791

75,971

Accruals and deferred income

 

31,300

36,118

Other creditors

 

144,263

94,160

 

324,637

222,408

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

Note

2023
£

2022
£

Due after one year

 

Loans and borrowings

8

21,687

31,667

 

Steps Ahead Care & Support Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

8

Loans and borrowings

2023
£

2022
£

Non-current loans and borrowings

Bank borrowings

21,687

31,667

2023
£

2022
£

Current loans and borrowings

Bank borrowings

10,000

10,000

9

Related party transactions

During the year, advances were made to Miss C E Holdsworth totalling £207,241 (2022: £176,084). The balance outstanding as at 31 March 2023, which was included within other debtors was £189,787 (2022: £162,009). Interest is charged at 2.00% per annum and is calculated on a monthly basis. Interest of £2,095 (2022: £3,614) was charged on the outstanding balance during the year.