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REGISTERED NUMBER: 00729404 (England and Wales)
















Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2024

for

Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited

Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited (Registered number: 00729404)






Contents of the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 5 April 2024




Page

Abridged Balance Sheet 1

Notes to the Financial Statements 3


Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited (Registered number: 00729404)

Abridged Balance Sheet
5 April 2024

5.4.24 5.4.23
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 4 1,709,224 1,648,322

CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 182,113 228,115
Debtors 44,212 115,932
Cash at bank 191,936 164,106
418,261 508,153
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 288,738 347,460
NET CURRENT ASSETS 129,523 160,693
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

1,838,747

1,809,015

CREDITORS
Amounts falling due after more than one
year

5

(626,555

)

(633,315

)

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES (108,514 ) (95,246 )
NET ASSETS 1,103,678 1,080,454

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share 7 10,000 10,000
Retained earnings 1,093,678 1,070,454
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 1,103,678 1,080,454

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 5 April 2024.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2024 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:
(a)ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
(b)preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.

Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited (Registered number: 00729404)

Abridged Balance Sheet - continued
5 April 2024


The financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

All the members have consented to the preparation of an abridged Balance Sheet for the year ended 5 April 2024 in accordance with Section 444(2A) of the Companies Act 2006.

In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 22 July 2024 and were signed on its behalf by:





Mrs P A Briers - Director


Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited (Registered number: 00729404)

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 5 April 2024

1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited is a private company, limited by shares , registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address are as below:

Registered number: 00729404

Registered office: Hillside Farm
Steeple Morden
Royston
Hertfordshire
SG8 0PP

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" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes.

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.

Single Farm Payment have been fully amortised in the current year.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.

Freehold property - 4% on cost
Improvements to property - 4% on cost
Plant and machinery - 15% reducing balance
Motor vehicles - 25% reducing balance

Stocks
Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items.

Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited (Registered number: 00729404)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 5 April 2024

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Financial instruments
The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 'Basic Financial Instruments' of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

Financial instruments are recognised in the company's statement of financial position when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Basic financial assets
Basic financial assets, which include debtors, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Basic financial liabilities
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and loans that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Taxation
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings, 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.

Hire purchase and leasing commitments
Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 3 (2023 - 3 ) .

Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited (Registered number: 00729404)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 5 April 2024

4. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Totals
£   
COST
At 6 April 2023 2,489,589
Additions 172,456
Disposals (89,000 )
At 5 April 2024 2,573,045
DEPRECIATION
At 6 April 2023 841,267
Charge for year 74,020
Eliminated on disposal (51,466 )
At 5 April 2024 863,821
NET BOOK VALUE
At 5 April 2024 1,709,224
At 5 April 2023 1,648,322

5. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN FIVE
YEARS
5.4.24 5.4.23
£    £   
Repayable by instalments
Bank loans more 5 yr by instal 313,627 347,599
Other loans more 5yrs instal 126,598 139,156
440,225 486,755

6. SECURED DEBTS

The following secured debts are included within creditors:

5.4.24 5.4.23
£    £   
Bank loans 448,397 473,518
Hire purchase contracts 60,666 -
509,063 473,518

Hire purchase liabilities are secured by the individual assets to which the liabilities relate.

The Lloyds Bank loan is secured by way of a first legal charge over freehold property at Land at Vicarage Farm, Potton, Bedfordshire, SG19 3LN with an acreage of 103.

7. CALLED UP SHARE

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 5.4.24 5.4.23
value: £    £   
10,000 Ordinary £1 10,000 10,000

Briers Farms (Steeple Morden) Limited (Registered number: 00729404)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 5 April 2024

8. OTHER FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS

At the balance sheet date the company had annual commitments under operating leases which cannot be cancelled, expiring between one and five years amounting to £56,430 (2023 - £56,430).

9. ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The ultimate controlling party is Mrs P A Briers.