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REGISTERED NUMBER: 03305849 (England and Wales)















Strategic Report, Report of the Directors and

Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

for

Temple Group Limited

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)






Contents of the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023




Page

Company Information 1

Strategic Report 2

Report of the Directors 6

Report of the Independent Auditors 8

Income Statement 12

Other Comprehensive Income 13

Balance Sheet 14

Statement of Changes in Equity 15

Cash Flow Statement 16

Notes to the Cash Flow Statement 17

Notes to the Financial Statements 18


Temple Group Limited

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023







DIRECTORS: R M L Southwood
M R Skelton





REGISTERED OFFICE: 3rd Floor, The Clove Building
4 Maguire Street
London
SE1 2NQ





REGISTERED NUMBER: 03305849 (England and Wales)





AUDITORS: Parkers
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors
Cornelius House
178-180 Church Road
Hove
East Sussex
BN3 2DJ

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Strategic Report
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

The directors present their strategic report for the year ended 31 March 2023.

Temple is one of the UK's leading independent infrastructure and property consultancies, specialising in environment, planning and sustainability services.

We operate a distinctive business model with a cohort of talented and experienced staff, supplemented by an established associate and partner network. This model has enabled us to maintain a responsive, high quality and reliable services and is an important differentiator in a dynamic market environment. This approach brings tangible benefits for our clients, as it allows for a responsive resource base, bespoke best in class teams, and unrivalled access to senior and niche expertise, over prolonged periods if required.

We provide clients with an enhanced breadth of skills and resources to address the most challenging assignments and have well-established collaborative partnerships with proven delivery on major commissions and frameworks. In 2022 we celebrated 25 years of trading, creating a digital booklet that highlighted the range of projects and sectors we have worked on as well as looking to the future, when we expect to continue to grow, refining and renewing partner relationships, as well as expanding the sectors and geographical locations within which we operate and the services we offer.

We continue to promote our vision as a purpose driven business and are also working on a set of values that will sit alongside. We are pleased to have launched our Sustainability Strategy and are working on provision of associated services aimed at enabling others to achieve their own sustainability goals. We are also extremely proud to be one of only two UK top 30 environmental consultancy to achieve B-Corp status, joining a network of like-minded businesses, striving for the same environmental, social, and sustainable goals.

REVIEW OF BUSINESS
Throughout the last year we have consolidated and built upon our one business transformation.

We have increased the capacity of our digital delivery team and are now working on innovative digital technologies, and we are developing strategic advisory services that cross and link technical boundaries, including climate, corporate sustainability, and ecosystems services.

The reported revenue for the year ended 31 March 2023 is £12.2m with a PBT of £605k compared to revenue of £12.1m and a PBT of £268k for the period to 31 March 2022. The increased profits flow from the investment we have been making in bringing the business together, combined with having a financial year without significant market disruptions and project delays.

We continue to commit significantly more than 1% of Profit before Tax to charitable and good causes. Some is given as direct donations to a variety of registered charities, e.g., Aspire, Cambridge Youth Opera, Plantlife and Southwood Foundation (a Registered Charity) via our parent company (TGM). In 2022 our volunteering committee has continued to work hard to expand opportunities for our employees and to increased participation. Throughout the year our teams have undertaken a broad range of activities with Thames21, IEMA Northwest, Elderflower Fields Festival with Sussex Wildlife Trust, ICanBe, The Wellies Project and the Southwood Foundation. We are also developing an ongoing relationship with The Conservation Volunteers to work on a site close to our London office. In December, our offices held collections and made donations to a number of local foodbanks including Southwark Foodbank, The Trussel Trust and Mustard Tree.


Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Strategic Report
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES
As a Board, we actively identify, monitor and mitigate the financial and operational risks and uncertainties to which we are exposed.

Financial Risk

Our financial risk principally relates to macro-economic, inflation, liquidity, and credit risk.

Large infrastructure projects and government contracts remain a significant proportion of our revenue and any material variation from either of these sources has a commensurate impact on turnover and profits. Our 2027 Strategy mitigates this risk by continuing to: invest in further diversification activities; work in partnership on larger programmes to share the risk; supplement our core team with associates and sub-consultants, allowing us to respond promptly to significant and/or unexpected fluctuations in revenue, without having to restructure the business in the short term.

We continue to operate in a highly competitive industry which has the potential to impact our ability to win new work at appropriate margins. We mitigate these risks by effective cost management, differentiating ourselves in the marketplace as a valued and trusted market leader, being selective about what work we compete for, and by close scrutiny of our bid tendering process and project delivery to ensure forecast bid and actual delivery margins remain satisfactory.

We manage credit risk by obtaining external credit checks on all potential new clients, setting and working within defined credit limits and monitoring and reporting on credit risk on an ongoing basis. Ongoing impacts from Brexit and Covid-19, along with global economic instability, means that greater focus has been given to the credit risk of all our clients. Debtor and WIP days are reviewed regularly. We have a strong focus on cash management and maintained reasonable cash balance over this period. Our cash flow profile is ordinarily steady and predictable. Monthly cash flow forecasts are prepared, which take into account seasonality, particularly relevant to ecology.

We are satisfied as a Board that we have adequate and available cash reserves to meet our financial requirements over the next trading period, and we remain committed to our ambitious growth plan as part of our 2027 Strategy.

Operational Risk

Our principal operation risks, as for many of our competitors, relate to project delivery and contract risk; the recruitment and retention of key staff; reputational risk from operations; and cyber security.

As a Board and a business, we review and discuss these matters on a regular basis and believe that through our business strategy, our business model, our certified integrated management system and our stakeholder relationships we have the right approaches, systems and processes in place to appropriately identify, quantify mitigate and ultimately manage these risks.


Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Strategic Report
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

The Government has been inconsistent in its commitment to infrastructure projects in the past twelve months, with a number of strategic transport programmes paused or receiving limited in funding. Conversely, there has been an increase in funding and prospects for infrastructure related to energy and water security, and climate adaptation and resilience in the context of a growing mainstream aspiration from governments, businesses, and society for a greener, fairer and more inclusive world. In the UK real estate market, despite hotspots of activity in certain urban location and sub-sectors, political, regulatory and economic uncertainty, alongside increased interest rates have contributed to a general downward pressure on prices and growth Issues of staff retention, recruitment and resourcing remain acute across all the areas we operate, with limited availability of individuals with the right skills and capabilities intensifying competition and driving salary inflation for staff at all levels across all environmental, planning and sustainability disciplines. This limited availability of individuals is seemingly being driven not only by an increase in demand but also a reduction in the number of new individuals coming into the industry and gaining the right experience (particularly over the last two years), an increasing cohort of senior individuals choosing to retire early from the industry and a growing desire from staff at all levels to reduce their working hours and or increase their amount of annual leave as part of new more flexible and hybrid work patterns.

We expect the aforementioned issues to persist as both a risk and an opportunity for the foreseeable future. As we pursue our 2027 Strategy, we will be unlocking new opportunities for cross-sector and skill development and career progression for all. This provides an incentive for staff to remain with us over the long-term and for new staff to join the team. Embedded learning and development programmes, in addition to formal performance review processes, underpin our company values and support career development for all members of the team. Finally, our agile business model affords staff greater protection as well as opportunities to take more responsibility, access a wider variety of work than would typically be the case with larger organisations, and benefit from close working with clients and our highly experienced associates and partners.

OUR STAFF
Temple's employees are at the heart of everything we do, and their passion, professionalism, commitment, and creativity continue to drive our success and growth. The environmental sector is going through a highly competitive period with regard to recruitment and retention and we are working hard to attract, develop and retain the best talent to enhance our team. Our graduate programme is now in its second year and by giving young consultants the opportunity to work in a variety of areas throughout the business we aim to develop a well-rounded future workforce.

During the last year we launched a share option scheme for senior staff and long service awards, with one employee celebrating 20 years with the company. We are working towards providing other enhanced benefits for 2023-24.

We would express our sincere thanks to our staff for the extraordinary commitment and efforts they made over the recent period as we adjust to new ways of working, rapid changes to society, the economy and technology and to thank them all for their loyalty, ongoing hard work, and continued support.


Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Strategic Report
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

OUTLOOK
Our 2027 business strategy, covering the period 2023-2027, is being further reviewed to take account of the seismic global change driven by significant political, macro-economic, societal and environmental uncertainty, as well as digital and technological advances.

Core to this strategy is our vision to create sustainable futures, a commitment to a new business structure that is fit for future markets, and a business strategy and investment programme that will differentiate us from our competitors, including a number of digital innovations, services aligned to natural asset management, a new advisory service and enhanced community engagement services. We also continue to work closely with a number of our trusted and strategic partners (with a shared vision and aligned values), which see us working on the UK's most exciting, complex, challenging and globally relevant issues for a range of high profile projects and programmes.

With environmental considerations moving into the mainstream of everyone's lives, notably social value, inclusivity and engagement, and sustainability more generally, we see huge opportunity for organisations such as Temple. Our 2027 Strategy responds to these growing needs and the needs of our clients, society and nature. It recognises that we must continue to find new ways of delivering our existing services as well as developing new areas of expertise. We need to ensure that the natural environment, societal needs and sustainable business models and consumption are at the heart of our service offer and encourage our clients and partners to harness the power of collective cooperation, collaboration and action to drive this forward.

We intend to continue to recruit and develop an inclusive and diverse team of highly qualified professionals to provide the best advice, motivated by our unique culture and the interesting, varied and professionally challenging nature of our clients and our work.

Our transformation over the last few years into one business has brought numerous benefits, not least allowing us to provide a greater breadth of skills and experience to our clients. It has been the catalyst behind our commitment to being purpose driven, and implementing a comprehensive Sustainability Strategy which has helped us to achieve B-Corp status. The rebranding exercise and redesign of our website has enabled us to demonstrate to our clients and other stakeholders how we are taking forward our mission and making positive change. We continue to maintain strong relationships with long standing clients and are working with them to understand their business needs and create opportunities and services that will help them to achieve their business and sustainability goals.
We continue to invest our people, enhancing the resilience of our business; and proactively driving internal efficiencies, including information technology and data analytics, simplifying processes whilst maintaining our commitments under ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001, and building an ethical and sustainable business that enables us to invest in our business future alongside the future of our people, our clients and our planet.

Therefore, the outlook for Temple as a UK-owned business is challenging but positive.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD:





R M L Southwood - Director


9 August 2023

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Report of the Directors
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 March 2023.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of environment, planning and
sustainability services for the public, private, not-for-profit and voluntary sectors.

DIVIDENDS
No dividends will be distributed for the year ended 31 March 2023.

DIRECTORS
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from 1 April 2022 to the date of this report.

R M L Southwood
M R Skelton

POLITICAL DONATIONS AND EXPENDITURE
The company made donations to registered charities in the year totalling £736 (2022: £687).

STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES
The directors are responsible for preparing the Strategic Report, the Report of the Directors and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law), including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland'. Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

-select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
-make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
-prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS
So far as the directors are aware, there is no relevant audit information (as defined by Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006) of which the company's auditors are unaware, and each director has taken all the steps that he ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information.

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Report of the Directors
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023


AUDITORS
The auditors, Parkers, will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD:





R M L Southwood - Director


9 August 2023

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
Temple Group Limited

Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of Temple Group Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the Income Statement, Other Comprehensive Income, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity, Cash Flow Statement and Notes to the Cash Flow Statement, Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:
-give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 March 2023 and of its profit for the year then ended;
-have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
-have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information
The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information in the Strategic Report and the Report of the Directors, but does not include the financial statements and our Report of the Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
Temple Group Limited


Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
- the information given in the Strategic Report and the Report of the Directors for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
- the Strategic Report and the Report of the Directors have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report or the Report of the Directors.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page six, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
Temple Group Limited


Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Based on our understanding of the company and industry, we identified that the principal risks of
non-compliance with laws and regulations related to UK pensions legislation and UK tax legislation, as well as UK Health & Safety legislation and we considered the extent to which non-compliance might have a material effect on the financial statements. We also considered those laws and regulations that have a direct impact on the preparation of the financial statements such as the Companies Act 2006. We evaluated management's incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls) and determined that the principal risks were related to revenue recognition where there may be incentive for manipulation of profits. Audit procedures performed by the engagement team included:

- Discussions with management, including consideration of known or suspected instances of non-compliance with laws and regulation and fraud;
- Challenging assumptions and judgements made by management in their significant accounting estimates; and
- Identifying and testing journal entries, in particular any journal entries posted with unusual account
combinations including journal entries which inflated the Company's results for the period with unusual
offset entries and journal entries impacting revenue recognition.

There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and the further removed
non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial
statements, the less likely we would become aware of it. Also, the risk of not detecting a material
misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may
involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through
collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Auditors.

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of
Temple Group Limited


Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in a Report of the Auditors and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.




Annette Watson PhD BSc FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of Parkers
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors
Cornelius House
178-180 Church Road
Hove
East Sussex
BN3 2DJ

9 August 2023

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Income Statement
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

31.3.23 31.3.22
Notes £    £   

TURNOVER 12,238,116 12,117,560

Cost of sales 7,678,731 7,936,342
GROSS PROFIT 4,559,385 4,181,218

Administrative expenses 3,925,201 3,919,191
634,184 262,027

Other operating income - 17,609
OPERATING PROFIT 4 634,184 279,636


Interest payable and similar expenses 5 29,351 11,789
PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION 604,833 267,847

Tax on profit 6 115,989 71,267
PROFIT FOR THE FINANCIAL
YEAR

488,844

196,580

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Other Comprehensive Income
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

31.3.23 31.3.22
Notes £    £   

PROFIT FOR THE YEAR 488,844 196,580


OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME - -
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE
INCOME FOR THE YEAR

488,844

196,580

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Balance Sheet
31 March 2023

31.3.23 31.3.22
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Intangible assets 7 23,333 30,333
Tangible assets 8 187,896 260,906
211,229 291,239

CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 9 2,561,433 1,375,692
Prepayments and accrued income 2,626,861 1,841,810
Cash at bank 117,022 394,938
5,305,316 3,612,440
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 10 2,608,602 1,473,723
NET CURRENT ASSETS 2,696,714 2,138,717
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

2,907,943

2,429,956

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES 12 29,856 40,713
NET ASSETS 2,878,087 2,389,243

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 13 11,275 11,275
Capital redemption reserve 14 7,725 7,725
Retained earnings 14 2,859,087 2,370,243
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 2,878,087 2,389,243

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 9 August 2023 and were signed on its behalf by:





R M L Southwood - Director


Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Statement of Changes in Equity
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

Called up Capital
share Retained redemption Total
capital earnings reserve equity
£    £    £    £   

Balance at 1 April 2021 11,275 2,173,663 7,725 2,192,663

Changes in equity
Total comprehensive income - 196,580 - 196,580
Balance at 31 March 2022 11,275 2,370,243 7,725 2,389,243

Changes in equity
Total comprehensive income - 488,844 - 488,844
Balance at 31 March 2023 11,275 2,859,087 7,725 2,878,087

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Cash Flow Statement
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

31.3.23 31.3.22
Notes £    £   
Cash flows from operating activities
Cash generated from operations 1 (395,811 ) (511,344 )
Interest paid - (761 )
Finance costs paid (29,351 ) (11,028 )
Tax paid (37,071 ) (10,806 )
Net cash from operating activities (462,233 ) (533,939 )

Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of intangible fixed assets - (35,000 )
Purchase of tangible fixed assets (64,479 ) (228,685 )
Sale of tangible fixed assets 1,417 12,070
Sale of fixed asset investments - (1 )
Net cash from investing activities (63,062 ) (251,616 )

Cash flows from financing activities
New loans in year 250,000 -
Loan repayments in year - 526,235
Capital repayments in year (2,621 ) (6,136 )
- 17,609
Net cash from financing activities 247,379 537,708

Decrease in cash and cash equivalents (277,916 ) (247,847 )
Cash and cash equivalents at
beginning of year

2

394,938

642,785

Cash and cash equivalents at end of
year

2

117,022

394,938

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Notes to the Cash Flow Statement
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

1. RECONCILIATION OF PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION TO CASH GENERATED FROM
OPERATIONS
31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Profit before taxation 604,833 267,847
Depreciation charges 144,454 150,226
(Profit)/loss on disposal of fixed assets (1,381 ) 18,832
Government grants - (17,609 )
Finance costs 29,351 11,789
777,257 431,085
Increase in trade and other debtors (1,970,792 ) (860,309 )
Increase/(decrease) in trade and other creditors 797,724 (82,120 )
Cash generated from operations (395,811 ) (511,344 )

2. CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

The amounts disclosed on the Cash Flow Statement in respect of cash and cash equivalents are in respect of these Balance Sheet amounts:

Year ended 31 March 2023
31.3.23 1.4.22
£    £   
Cash and cash equivalents 117,022 394,938
Year ended 31 March 2022
31.3.22 1.4.21
£    £   
Cash and cash equivalents 394,938 642,785


3. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS

At 1.4.22 Cash flow At 31.3.23
£    £    £   
Net cash
Cash at bank 394,938 (277,916 ) 117,022
394,938 (277,916 ) 117,022
Debt
Finance leases (2,621 ) 2,621 -
(2,621 ) 2,621 -
Total 392,317 (275,295 ) 117,022

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

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

1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

Temple Group Limited is a private company, limited by shares , registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Related party exemption
The company has taken advantage of exemption, under the terms of Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', not to disclose related party transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries within the group.

Significant judgements and estimates
No significant judgements have had to be made by the directors in preparing these financial
statements.

Turnover
Turnover represents net invoiced sales of services, excluding value added tax.

Where the services are supplied under long-term contracts, turnover represents the value of work done in the year, including amounts not invoiced and is recognised by reference to stage of completion.

Goodwill
Goodwill, being the amount paid in connection with the acquisition of a business in 2011, is being
amortised evenly over its estimated useful life of five years.

Intangible assets
Intangible assets are initially measured at cost. After initial recognition, intangible assets are measured at cost less any accumulated amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its
estimated useful life, or if held under a finance lease, over the lease term, whichever is shorter.

Leasehold Improvements - in accordance with the property
Fixtures & Fittings - 5 years
Equipment on Jobs - 3 years
Computer Equipment - 3 years
Office Equipment - 3 years

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Government grants
Government grants are recognised in the income statement in an appropriate manner that matches
them with the expenditure towards which they are intended to contribute.

Grants for immediate financial support or to cover costs already incurred are recognised immediately in the income statement. Grants towards general activities of the entity over a specific period are recognised in the income statement over that period.

Grants towards fixed assets are recognised over the expected useful lives of the related assets and are treated as deferred income and released to the income statement over the useful life of the asset concerned.

All grants in the income statement are recognised when all conditions for receipt have been complied with.

Financial instruments
The company only enters into basic financial instrument transactions that result in the recognition of
financial assets and liabilities like trade and other accounts receivable and payable, loans from banks and other third parties, loans to and from related parties and investments in non-puttable ordinary shares.

Financial assets that are measured at cost and amortised cost are assessed at the end of each reporting period for objective evidence of impairment. If objective evidence of impairment is found, an impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.

Taxation
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted.

Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

Deferred tax
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date.

Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

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

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Research and development
Expenditure on research and development is written off in the year in which it is incurred.


Hire purchase and leasing commitments
Assets obtained under hire purchase contracts or finance leases are capitalised in the balance sheet. Those held under hire purchase contracts are depreciated over their estimated useful lives. Those held under finance leases are depreciated over their estimated useful lives or the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

The interest element of these obligations is charged to profit or loss over the relevant period. The capital element of the future payments is treated as a liability.

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate.

Impairment of non-financial assets
At each reporting date non-financial assets not carried at fair value, like goodwill and plant, property
and equipment, are reviewed to determine whether there is an indication that any asset may be
impaired. If there is an indication of possible impairment, the recoverable amount of any asset or
group of related assets, which is the higher of value in use and the fair value less cost to sell, is
estimated and compared with its carrying amount. If the recoverable amount is lower, the carrying
amount of the asset is reduced to its recoverable amount and an impairment loss is recognised
immediately in profit or loss.

3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS
31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Wages and salaries 6,593,928 6,436,765
Social security costs 673,308 643,803
Other pension costs 276,690 274,515
7,543,926 7,355,083

The average number of employees during the year was as follows:
31.3.23 31.3.22

Technical Staff 127 137
Support Staff 30 32
157 169

31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Directors' remuneration 98,025 97,443
Directors' pension contributions to money purchase schemes 39,942 39,989

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS - continued

The number of directors to whom retirement benefits were accruing was as follows:

Money purchase schemes 1 1

4. OPERATING PROFIT

The operating profit is stated after charging/(crediting):

31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Depreciation - owned assets 137,454 139,188
Depreciation - assets on finance leases - 6,368
(Profit)/loss on disposal of fixed assets (1,381 ) 18,832
Goodwill amortisation 7,000 4,667
Auditors' remuneration 9,018 10,000

5. INTEREST PAYABLE AND SIMILAR EXPENSES
31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Bank loan interest - 761
Other finance charges 29,351 11,028
29,351 11,789

6. TAXATION

Analysis of the tax charge
The tax charge on the profit for the year was as follows:
31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Current tax:
UK corporation tax 126,847 37,070
Prior year - 20,153
Total current tax 126,847 57,223

Deferred tax (10,858 ) 14,044
Tax on profit 115,989 71,267

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

7. INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Goodwill
£   
COST
At 1 April 2022
and 31 March 2023 125,000
AMORTISATION
At 1 April 2022 94,667
Amortisation for year 7,000
At 31 March 2023 101,667
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2023 23,333
At 31 March 2022 30,333

8. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Fixtures
Plant and and Motor Computer
machinery fittings vehicles equipment Totals
£    £    £    £    £   
COST
At 1 April 2022 95,397 20,434 13,582 556,539 685,952
Additions 3,025 1,177 - 60,278 64,480
Disposals (5,675 ) (13,193 ) (4,493 ) (288 ) (23,649 )
At 31 March 2023 92,747 8,418 9,089 616,529 726,783
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2022 66,089 20,434 10,722 327,801 425,046
Charge for year 16,404 170 2,860 118,020 137,454
Eliminated on disposal (5,674 ) (13,193 ) (4,493 ) (253 ) (23,613 )
At 31 March 2023 76,819 7,411 9,089 445,568 538,887
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2023 15,928 1,007 - 170,961 187,896
At 31 March 2022 29,308 - 2,860 228,738 260,906

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

8. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS - continued

Fixed assets, included in the above, which are held under finance leases are as follows:
Computer
equipment
£   
COST
At 1 April 2022 19,106
Transfer to ownership (19,106 )
At 31 March 2023 -
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2022 14,874
Transfer to ownership (14,874 )
At 31 March 2023 -
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2023 -
At 31 March 2022 4,232

9. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Trade debtors 2,541,666 1,237,193
Other debtors 19,767 138,499
2,561,433 1,375,692

10. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Finance leases (see note 11) - 2,621
Trade creditors 489,717 286,969
Amounts owed to group undertakings 250,000 -
Tax 126,847 37,071
Social security and other taxes 171,289 164,611
VAT 491,820 308,466
Other creditors 123,214 15,000
Deferred income 268,065 156,983
Accrued expenses 687,650 502,002
2,608,602 1,473,723

Temple Group Limited (Registered number: 03305849)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

11. LEASING AGREEMENTS

Minimum lease payments under finance leases fall due as follows:

Finance leases
31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Net obligations repayable:
Within one year - 2,621

12. PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES
31.3.23 31.3.22
£    £   
Deferred tax
Accelerated capital allowances 29,856 40,713

Deferred
tax
£   
Balance at 1 April 2022 40,713
Provided during year (10,857 )
Balance at 31 March 2023 29,856

13. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 31.3.23 31.3.22
value: £    £   
4,750 Ordinary A 1 4,750 4,750
1,000 Ordinary B 1 1,000 1,000
5,525 Ordinary C 1 5,525 5,525
11,275 11,275

14. RESERVES
Capital
Retained redemption
earnings reserve Totals
£    £    £   

At 1 April 2022 2,370,243 7,725 2,377,968
Profit for the year 488,844 488,844
At 31 March 2023 2,859,087 7,725 2,866,812