LDA Design Trustees Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is LDA Design, 16-17 Minster Precincts, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, PE11XX.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
The company has not traded during the year or the preceding financial period. During this time, the company received no income and incurred no expenditure and therefore no Profit and loss account is presented in these financial statements.
Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, 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.
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares 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.
Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.
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.
Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
An adjustment has been made to the comparative, the prior year accounts reported 5 employees however this was an error. There are 5 directors but they are not employees of the company.
On 24 April 2024, LDA Design Consulting Limited and LDA Design Trustees Limited entered into a facilities agreement with Shawbrook Bank Limited.
This resulted in LDA Design Trustees Limited borrowing £2.5m over a monthly repayment term of 5 years.
This also resulted in LDA Design Consulting Limited obtaining a revolving credit facility of £750k and borrowing £1m on an interest only term loan, with repayment of the loan due on the 24 April 2029. Following the receipt of these facilities, the term loan that was in place at the year end with Triodos Bank UK Limited (2024: £516,729 liability) was repaid and Shawbrook Bank Limited replaced Triodos Bank UK Limited as the company’s main bankers.