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Registration number: 05703160

The Cartoon Museum Limited

Unaudited Filleted Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 December 2023

 

The Cartoon Museum Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Accountants' Report

2

Balance Sheet

3

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements

4 to 5

 

The Cartoon Museum Limited

Company Information

Directors

Mr ON Preston

Mr Christopher Paul Gilbert

Company secretary

Mrs Helen Julie Brierley

Registered office

63 Wells Street
Fitzrovia
London
W1A 3AE

Accountants

Julie Brierley
Avesta Accounting
60 The Marlowes
London
NW8 6NA

 

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors on the Preparation of the Unaudited Statutory Accounts of
The Cartoon Museum Limited
for the Year Ended 31 December 2023

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the accounts of The Cartoon Museum Limited for the year ended 31 December 2023 as set out on pages 3 to 5 from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member of the Association of Accounting Technicians we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at https://www.aat.org.uk/about-aat/professional-ethics .
 

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of The Cartoon Museum Limited, as a body. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of The Cartoon Museum Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of The Cartoon Museum Limited, as a body.. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than The Cartoon Museum Limited and its Board of Directors as a body for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that The Cartoon Museum 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 loss of The Cartoon Museum Limited. You consider that The Cartoon Museum 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 The Cartoon Museum 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.

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

Julie Brierley
Avesta Accounting
60 The Marlowes
London
NW8 6NA

17 August 2024

 

The Cartoon Museum Limited

(Registration number: 05703160)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2023

Note

2023
£

2022
£

Current assets

 

Stocks

3

16,676

12,204

Debtors

4

1,088

-

Cash at bank and in hand

 

48,821

26,916

 

66,585

39,120

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

5

(218,480)

(171,250)

Net liabilities

 

(151,895)

(132,130)

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

6

1

1

Retained earnings

(151,896)

(132,131)

Shareholders' deficit

 

(151,895)

(132,130)

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

Directors' 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 directors acknowledge their 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. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the directors have not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 19 September 2024 and signed on its behalf by:
 

.........................................
Mr Christopher Paul Gilbert
Director

 

The Cartoon Museum Limited

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

1

General information

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

The address of its registered office is:
63 Wells Street
Fitzrovia
London
W1A 3AE

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 19 September 2024.

2

Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was 2 (2022 - 1).

3

Stocks

2023
£

2022
£

Other inventories

16,676

12,204

4

Debtors

Current

2023
£

2022
£

Prepayments

809

-

Other debtors

279

-

 

1,088

-

 

The Cartoon Museum Limited

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

5

Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

2023
£

2022
£

Due within one year

Trade creditors

3,723

1,878

Taxation and social security

-

105

Accruals and deferred income

530

470

Other creditors

214,227

168,797

218,480

171,250

6

Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

2023

2022

No.

£

No.

£

Ordinary share of £1 each

1

1

1

1

       

7

Dividends

8

Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cartoon Art Trust Limited

 The company's immediate parent is Cartoon Art Trust Limited, incorporated in England.