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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Company Information
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Group strategic report
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
The director presents the strategic report for the year ended 30 April 2024.
The Principal activity of the group during the year continued to be the operation, managing and administering nursing homes for the elderly.
Turnover of the group has increased from £14.4 million in 2023 to £15.8 million in the current year. The operating profit has increased from £3.3 million in 2023 to £4.1 million in the current year. Despite difficult trading conditions due to rising costs and shortage of skilled staff in healthcare sector, the group turnover and profitability has improved from last year and the directors are pleased with the results. Due to cost control measures in place, the directors believe that turnover and operating profits of the group will be steady for the foreseeable future. Net assets of the group has increased from £22.2 million in 2023 to £24.6 million in the current year. This year the group has focused on consolidating its operations and enhancing its attention on monitoring the quality of care delivered. Internal policies, procedures and systems were enhanced and strengthened in line with the demands of the marketplace. The directors are pleased with the results of the group and believe the turnover and operating profits will be steady for the foreseeable future. Principal risks include non-compliance with regulation, fee income not rising in line with the cost of providing care, lack of nursing resources and general increase in costs. The group is investing in training in order to improve the employees' skill and enhance the customer service. The key to our success is our highly motivated, trained and dedicated staff team. We continue working as a team, supporting and training on each other to ensure that our resident's needs are met within a safe environment. To keep in step with the world around us, we believe it is important to provide access to new technology. All our houses are equipped with wireless broadband and computer for use by staffs and residents.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Group strategic report (continued)
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
The group's activities expose it to a number of financial risks.
Interest rate risk The group has bank loans and is therefore exposed to interest rate fluctuation on borrowings. Credit risk The group's principal financial assets are bank balance, trade and other receivables. The group's credit risk is primarily attributable to its trade receivables. The amounts presented in the financial statements are net of allowances for doubtful receivables. It is group policy to ensure that where a resident is privately funded, the immediate next of kin are required to sign the resident's contract. Where a resident's property is being sold to pay for their care fees the company may require them to accept a charge on the property to secure any debt for care fees. The credit risk is liquid funds are limited because the counter parties are banks which are supported and underwritten by the UK government. The company has no significant concentration of credit risk, with exposure spread over a large number of counter parties and customers. Liquidity risk In order to maintain liquidity to ensure that sufficient funds are available for ongoing operations the group manages its cash flow from operations. Insurance risk The group is exposed to potential claims from employees and from residents and their next of kin. In order to protect the company from these risks, the Board has put in place a comprehensive cover with reputable insurers. Employees The group is an equal opportunities employer and gives full and fair consideration to applications for employment made by disabled persons, having regard to their particular aptitudes and abilities. Where people become disabled during the course of their employment, every effort is made to retain their services and to provide retraining, if necessary. All employees are eligible for consideration for appropriate training, career development and promotional opportunities: disabled employees are not treated differently in this respect. The company has established the practice of keeping employees informed of maters affecting them as employees and of the financial and economic factors affecting the performance of the company.
This report was approved by the board on 30 January 2025 and signed on its behalf.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Directors' report
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 April 2024.
The directors are responsible for preparing the Group strategic report, the Directors' report and the consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the Group's financial statements and then apply them consistently;
∙make judgments 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 Group 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 the Group and to 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 the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The profit for the year, after taxation, amounted to £2,320,764 (2023 - £2,174,113).
The company has paid interim dividends of £20,000 (2023: £4,000).
The directors who served during the year were:
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Directors' report (continued)
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
There have been no significant events affecting the Group since the year end.
The auditors, Mantax Lynton, will be proposed for reappointment in accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006.
This report was approved by the board on
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Independent auditors' report to the members of Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
We have audited the financial statements of Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd (the 'parent Company') and its subsidiaries (the 'Group') for the year ended 30 April 2024, which comprise the Consolidated statement of comprehensive income, the Consolidated statement of financial position, the Company statement of financial position, the Consolidated statement of cash flows, the Consolidated statement of changes in equity, the Company statement of changes in equity and the related notes, 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).
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 Group in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council'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.
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 Group's or the parent 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.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Independent auditors' report to the members of Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd (continued)
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditors' report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the Annual Report. 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. 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 course of 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.
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
∙the information given in the Group strategic report and the Directors' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
∙the Group strategic report and the Directors' report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the Group and the parent Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Group strategic report or the Directors' report.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Independent auditors' report to the members of Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd (continued)
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 an Auditors' report 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 Group financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
∙We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks within which the company operates, focusing on those laws and regulations that have a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The laws and regulations we considered in this context were the CQC regulations, Companies Act 2006, FRS 102 and relevant taxation legislation.
∙We identified the greatest risks of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud, to be override of controls by management, inappropriate revenue recognition and going concern. Our audit procedures to respond to these risks included enquiries of management about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, reviewing accounting estimates for biases corroborating revenue recognised by the company through agreements to supporting documentation and ensuring accounting policies are appropriate under United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and applicable law.
∙Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. We are not responsible for preventing noncompliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.
∙These inherent limitations are particularly significant in the case of misstatement resulting from fraud as this may involve sophisticated schemes designed to avoid detection, including deliberate failure to record transactions, collusion or the provision of intentional misrepresentations.
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 Auditors' report.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Independent auditors' report to the members of Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd (continued)
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 an Auditors' report 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.
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants & Statutory Auditors
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Consolidated statement of comprehensive income
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Registered number: 04334712
Consolidated statement of financial position
As at
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf on 30 January 2025.
The notes on pages 16 to 37 form part of these financial statements.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Registered number: 04334712
Company statement of financial position
As at
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf on
The notes on pages 16 to 37 form part of these financial statements.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Consolidated statement of changes in equity
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Company statement of changes in equity
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Consolidated statement of cash flows
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Consolidated Analysis of Net Debt
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd is a company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The company's registration number and address of the registered office is given in the company information page of these financial statements.
The principal activities of the company in the year under review was that of Residential nursing care facilities.
2.Accounting policies
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention unless otherwise specified within these accounting policies and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006.
The preparation of financial statements in compliance with FRS 102 requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires Group management to exercise judgment in applying the Group's accounting policies (see note 3).
The Company has taken advantage of the exemption allowed under section 408 of the Companies Act 2006 and has not presented its own Statement of comprehensive income in these financial statements.
The following principal accounting policies have been applied:
The consolidated financial statements present the results of the Company and its own subsidiaries ("the Group") as if they form a single entity. Intercompany transactions and balances between group companies are therefore eliminated in full.
The consolidated financial statements incorporate the results of business combinations using the purchase method. In the Statement of financial position, the acquire's identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities are initially recognised at their fair values at the acquisition date. The results of acquired operations are included in the Consolidated statement of comprehensive income from the date on which control is obtained. They are deconsolidated from the date control ceases. In accordance with the transitional exemption available in FRS 102, the Group has chosen not to retrospectively apply the standard to business combinations that occurred before the date of transition to FRS 102.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Grants of a revenue nature are recognised in the Consolidated statement of comprehensive income in the same period as the related expenditure.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
All intangible assets are considered to have a finite useful life. If a reliable estimate of the useful life cannot be made, the useful life shall not exceed ten years.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Depreciation is charged so as to allocate the cost of assets less their residual value over their estimated useful lives, using the straight-line method.
Depreciation is provided on the following basis:
The assets' residual values, useful lives and depreciation methods are reviewed, and adjusted prospectively if appropriate, or if there is an indication of a significant change since the last reporting date.
Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing the proceeds with the carrying amount and are recognised in profit or loss.
Fair values are determined from market based evidence normally undertaken by professionally qualified valuers.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Provisions are measured as the best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation, taking into account the related risks and uncertainties.
The Group has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 “Basic Financial Instruments” of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
The Group has elected to apply the recognition and measurement provisions of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments (as adopted by the UK Endorsement Board) with the disclosure requirements of Sections 11 and 12 and the other presentation requirements of FRS 102.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Basic financial assets
Basic financial assets, which include trade and other debtors, cash and bank balances, are initially measured at their transaction price (adjusted for transaction costs except in the initial measurement of financial assets that are subsequently measured at fair value through profit and loss) and are subsequently carried at their amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any provision for impairment, 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.
Discounting is omitted where the effect of discounting is immaterial. The Group's cash and cash equivalents, trade and most other debtors due with the operating cycle fall into this category of financial instruments.
Financial liabilities
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 Group after the deduction of all its liabilities.
Basic financial liabilities, which include trade and other creditors, bank loans, other loans and loans due to fellow group companies are initially measured at their transaction price (adjusting for transaction costs except in the initial measurement of financial liabilities that are subsequently measured at fair value through profit and loss). When this constitutes a financing transaction, whereby the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest, discounting is omitted where the effect of discounting is immaterial.
Debt instruments are subsequently carried at their amortised cost using the effective interest rate method.
Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods and services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Trade creditors are classified as current liabilities if the payment is due within one year. If not, they represent non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are initially recognised at their transaction price and subsequently are measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. Discounting is omitted where the effect of discounting is immaterial.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
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Notes to the financial statements
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
12.Taxation (continued)
There were no factors that may affect future tax charges.
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
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Nicholas James Care Homes Ltd
Notes to the financial statements
For the Year Ended 30 April 2024
14.Intangible assets (continued)
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