REGISTERED NUMBER: |
Report of the Directors and |
Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
for |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited |
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
Report of the Directors and |
Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
for |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 05159614) |
Contents of the Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
Page |
Company Information | 1 |
Report of the Directors | 2 |
Balance Sheet | 4 |
Notes to the Financial Statements | 5 |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited |
Company Information |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
DIRECTORS: |
REGISTERED OFFICE: |
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
AUDITORS: |
5 Westbrook Court |
Sharrowvale Road |
Sheffield |
South Yorkshire |
S11 8YZ |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 05159614) |
Report of the Directors |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2022. |
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY |
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of a holding company for managing businesses trading in the environment sector. |
DIRECTORS |
Other changes in directors holding office are as follows: |
POST REPORTING DATE EVENTS |
Cura Terrae Ltd: On 17th March 2022 Ecus (Holdings) Ltd, was bought by newly incorporated Cura Terrae Ltd, a Palatine Private Equity Impact Fund backed investment. |
Cura Terrae's mission is to provide services and solutions to help take care of The Earth, helping clients work towards a brighter, more sustainable future. It will fulfil this mission by acquiring, supporting and growing a group of best-in-class sustainability-focussed companies. The strong support provided by Cura Terrae will empower group companies to focus on their services and clients, and to work together to bring more to clients from sister companies within group. |
Environmental Monitoring Solutions Ltd, and Envirocare Technical Consultancy Ltd, were also bought by Cura Terrae Ltd on the same day in forming the initial group. |
Palatine's Private Equity's Impact Fund actively targets investment in companies that are creating social or environmental change, in order to prove that returns and purpose can be achieved alongside each other. |
On the 20th December 2022, the subsidiary Ecus Ltd completed a significant step on its growth journey after acquiring environmental services company Naturally Wild. The Naturally Wild team brings further quality and expertise and ensures that our resources continue to grow, allowing us to deliver our industry-leading services to our expanding client base. |
STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES |
The directors are responsible for preparing 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). 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. |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 05159614) |
Report of the Directors |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES - continued |
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 or she ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself or herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information. |
AUDITORS |
The auditors, Sutton McGrath Hartley, will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting. |
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. |
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD: |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 05159614) |
Balance Sheet |
31 December 2022 |
2022 | 2021 |
Notes | £ | £ | £ | £ |
FIXED ASSETS |
Investments | 4 |
CURRENT ASSETS |
Debtors | 5 |
CREDITORS |
Amounts falling due within one year | 6 |
NET CURRENT ASSETS |
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES |
CREDITORS |
Amounts falling due after more than one year |
7 |
NET ASSETS |
CAPITAL AND RESERVES |
Called up share capital | 8 |
Capital redemption reserve |
Retained earnings |
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS |
In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Income Statement has not been delivered. |
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 05159614) |
Notes to the Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited is a |
2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
Basis of preparing the financial statements |
The company's bank borrowings and other liabilities are met from group facilities which factor in the profitability and funds of its subsidiary company. The company's directors are confident that the subsidiary company is continuing to trade profitably during 2020. As a consequence the company has been able to continue to meet its borrowing commitments as and when they fall due together with its day to day working capital requirements. |
The directors feel that it is appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis under the historical cost convention. Inherently, however, there can be no certainty in relation to the continuation of these facilities. The financial statements do not include any adjustment that would result from a withdrawal of the facilities referred to above. The presentation currency is £ sterling. |
The significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all years presented, unless otherwise stated. |
Investments in subsidiaries |
Investments in subsidiary undertakings are recognised at cost. |
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. |
3. | EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS |
The average number of employees during the year was |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 05159614) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
4. | FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS |
Shares in |
group |
undertakings |
£ |
COST |
At 1 January 2022 |
and 31 December 2022 |
NET BOOK VALUE |
At 31 December 2022 |
At 31 December 2021 |
5. | DEBTORS |
2022 | 2021 |
£ | £ |
Amounts falling due within one year: |
Amounts owed by group undertakings |
Other debtors |
Amounts falling due after more than one year: |
Amounts owed by group undertakings |
Aggregate amounts |
6. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
2022 | 2021 |
£ | £ |
Bank loans and overdrafts |
Trade creditors |
Amounts owed to group undertakings |
Taxation and social security |
Other creditors |
7. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR |
2022 | 2021 |
£ | £ |
Bank loans |
Ecus (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 05159614) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2022 |
8. | CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL |
Allotted and issued: |
Number: | Class: | Nominal | 2022 | 2021 |
value: | £ | £ |
Ordinary | £1 | 90,871 | 80,000 |
9. | DISCLOSURE UNDER SECTION 444(5B) OF THE COMPANIES ACT 2006 |
The Report of the Auditors was unqualified. |
for and on behalf of |
10. | DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES |
The following advances and credits to a director subsisted during the years ended 31 December 2022 and 31 December 2021: |
2022 | 2021 |
£ | £ |
Balance outstanding at start of year |
Amounts advanced |
Amounts repaid | ( |
) |
Amounts written off | - | - |
Amounts waived | - | - |
Balance outstanding at end of year |
11. | RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES |
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. |
12. | ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY |
The immediate parent party is Cura Terrae Limited. |
The ultimate parent party is Cura Terrae Topco Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales. The consolidated financial statements of Cura Terrae Topco Limited are available from the registered address, Brook Holt, Blackburn Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, S61 2DW. |
The directors believe that there is no ultimate controlling party. |