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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
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COMPANY INFORMATION
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GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
The Directors present their group Strategic Report for the year ended 30 November 2024.
The Company acts as a holding company for a group whose principal activities during the year comprised domestic and commercial removals and storage, and property investment.
Management continually monitors the key risks facing the Group together with assessing the controls used for managing these risks. The Directors formally review and document the principal risks facing the business at least annually. The principal risks and uncertainties facing the Group are as follows:
1)Economic downturn - the Group acknowledges the importance of maintaining close relationships with its key customers in order to be able to identify the early signs of potential financial difficulties.
2)Competitor pressure - the market in which the Group operates is considered to be relatively competitive, and therefore competitor pressure could result in losing sales to key competitors. The Group manages this risk by providing a quality service and maintaining strong relationships with its key customers.
3)Loss of key personnel - this would present significant operational difficulties for the Group. Management seeks to ensure that key personnel are appropriately remunerated to ensure that good performance is recognised.
Clockwork Removals Limited:
Turnover increased to £14,045,811 (2023 - £12,969,739). The gross profit margin decreased to 52.0% (2023 – 52.4%). Operating profit decreased to £622,592 (2023 - £778,023). Operating profit is stated after depreciation on tangible fixed assets of £622,256 (2023 - £536,880) and amortisation of intangible assets of £33,954 (2023 - £26,881).
The Company generated a profit before tax of £601,424 (2023 - £738,115) and a positive EBITDA before exceptional items of £1,278,803 (2023 - £1,341,784).
The Company's Statement of Financial Position shows net current assets of £2,010,494 (2023 - £2,431,446) and a net asset position of £4,270,982 (2023 - £4,451,795).
Although the company recorded a decrease in profit generated for 2024, the Directors are satisfied with a good trading performance in the year, especially taking into account the decrease in demand for domestic removal services due to the increased cost of living and uncertainty over interest rates.
The Directors continue to employ new strategies to grow turnover and improve underlying performance.
Clockwork Properties Limited:
The Company generated an operating profit of £472,010 (2023 - £285,318) during the year.
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GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
The Group:
Group turnover increased to £14,279,981 (2023 - £13,126,044). Group operating profit was £983,161 for the year compared to £926,143 in the previous year. The Group generated a profit before tax of £761,158 compared to a profit of £791,221 in the previous year. The Group showed a positive EBITDA of £1,758,769 (2023 - £1,586,926). The Group Balance Sheet continues to strengthen, showing a net asset position of £4,212,025 (2023 - £4,146,779). Dividends of £480,000 (2023 - £520,000) were declared by Clockwork Group Holdings Limited during the year.
The Group makes little use of financial instruments other than an operational bank account, overdraft and fixed rate bank loans and so its exposure to price risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and cash flow risk is not material for the assessment of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Group.
UK businesses are currently facing many uncertainties such as the consequences of environmental sustainability and geopolitical events such as the war in Ukraine. These uncertainties have contributed to an environment where there exists a range of issues and risks, including inflation, rising interest rates, labour shortages, disrupted supply chains and new ways of working.
The Directors have carried out an assessment of the potential impact of these uncertainties on the business, including the impact of mitigation measures, and have concluded that the greatest impact on the business is expected to be from the economic ripple effect on the global economy. The Directors have taken account of these potential impacts in their going concern assessment. Clockwork Group Holdings Limited continues to work with its partners to minimise any impacts of these events and maximise the realisation of any opportunities they may provide to the business.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf.
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DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2024.
The Company acts as a holding company for a group whose principal activities during the year comprised domestic and commercial removals, storage and property investment.
The profit for the year, after taxation and minority interests, amounted to £544,813 (2023 - £565,347).
Dividends paid in the year are disclosed within note 13.
The directors who served during the year were:
The Directors continue to employ new strategies to grow turnover and improve underlying performance.
There have been no significant events affecting the Group since the year end.
The auditor, Anderson Anderson & Brown Audit LLP, will be proposed for reappointment in accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf.
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DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 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.
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 applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland'. 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 the Group and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period.
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 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 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.
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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CLOCKWORK GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED
We have audited the financial statements of Clockwork Group Holdings Limited (the 'parent Company') and its subsidiaries (the 'Group') for the year ended 30 November 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 Auditor's 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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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CLOCKWORK GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditor's 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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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CLOCKWORK GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED (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 Auditor's 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 Companies Act 2006 and Taxation legislation. We identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities including fraud to be:
∙timing of revenue recognition;
∙compliance with relevant laws and regulations which directly impact the financial statements and those that the company needs to comply with for the purpose of trading;
∙management override of controls to manipulate the company’s key performance indicators to meet targets.
Our audit procedures to respond to these risks included:
∙reviewed internal documenation and correspondence with regulators for evidence of irregularities;
∙testing a sample of sales transactions and reviewing transactions around the year end to ensure recognised in the correct period;
∙reviewed areas of judgement and tested a sample of journal entries for indicators of management bias;
∙performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships which may be an indiciaiton of material misstatement due to fraud.
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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CLOCKWORK GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.
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 Auditor's Report.
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 Auditor's 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
Statutory Auditor
81 George Street
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT 30 NOVEMBER 2024
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION (CONTINUED)
AS AT 30 NOVEMBER 2024
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 18 to 41 form part of these financial statements.
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COMPANY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT 30 NOVEMBER 2024
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 18 to 41 form part of these financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
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COMPANY STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
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CONSOLIDATED ANALYSIS OF NET DEBT
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
Clockwork Group Holdings Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated and registered in Scotland. The registered office is 11 West Harbour Road, Edinburgh, EH5 1PH. The Company's registered number is SC225725.
The Company acts as a holding company for a group whose principal activities during the year comprised domestic and commercial removals, storage and property investment. The financial statements are prepared in Pounds Sterling as this is the functional currency of the economic environment in which the Company operates. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest Pounds Sterling (£).
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 judgement 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 acquiree'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, being 1 December 2014.
The directors, having made due and careful enquiry, are of the opinion that the Group has adequate working capital to execute its operations over the next 12 months, following the date of approval of these financial statements. The directors, therefore, have made an informed judgement, at the time of approving the financial statements, that there is a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
As a result, the directors have continued to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Functional and presentation currency
Transactions and balances
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Goodwill
Other intangible assets
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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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 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.
Stocks are stated at the lower of cost and net realisable value.
At each reporting date, stocks are assessed for impairment. If stock is impaired, the carrying amount is reduced to its selling price less costs to complete and sell. The impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 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.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Financial instruments are recognised in the Group's Statement of Financial Position when the Group becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.
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.
Basic 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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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2024
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, if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods. Investment properties are valued by the directors on an open market basis. The directors have considered current market rents and investment property yields for comparable properties and believe that these valuations are appropriate at 30 November 2024. The carrying value of the Group's investment property is £3,263,000.
Analysis of turnover by country of destination:
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12.Taxation (continued)
There were no factors that may affect future tax charges.
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14.Intangible assets (continued)
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Investment properties are valued by the directors on an open market basis. The directors have considered current market rents and investment property yields for comparable properties and believe that these valuations are appropriate at 30 November 2024. External valuations were obtained in February 2023 and June 2024 by Graham + Sibbald LLP and December 2024 by Lambert Smith Hampton. The Directors consider the Group's investment properties to have a carrying value of £3,263,000.
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The Group has granted a Standard Security over the whole of the subjects known as 140 Causewayside Street, Glasgow, G32 8LP, in favour of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC in respect of all obligations and debts that may become due.
The Group has granted a Standard Security over the whole of the subjects known as Unit 8 Auld Bond Road, PH1 3FX, in favour of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC in respect of all obligations and debts that may become due. The Group has granted a Standard Security over the whole of the subjects known as Belvoir Way, Fairfield Industrial Estate, Louth, LN11 0YP, in favour of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC in respect of all obligations and debts that may become due. The Group has granted a Standard Security over the whole of the subjects known as 16 Seafield Road, Inverness, IV1 1SG, in favour of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC in respect of all obligations and debts that may become due. The Group has granted a Standard Security over the whole of the subjects known as 17 Cloberfield, Milngavie, Glasgow, G62 7LN, in favour of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC in respect of all obligations and debts that may become due. The Group has granted a Standard Security over the whole of the subjects known as Unit 2, Airlink Industrial Estate, Inchinnan Road, Paisley PA3 2RE, in favour of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC in respect of all obligations and debts that may become due. The Group has granted a Floating Charge over all of the properties owned by them in favour of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC in respect of all obligations and debts that may become due.
Revaluation reserve
Profit and loss account
dividends paid.
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The Company makes payments to defined contribution pension schemes. The assets of the schemes are held separately from those of the Company in independently administered funds. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the Group to the funds and amounted to £112,727 (2023 - £86,330). Contributions totalling £1,642 (2023 - £110) were payable to the funds at the reporting date and are included in creditors.
In the opinion of the Directors, the Company and Group's ultimate controlling party is J C Morison due to his majority shareholding in Clockwork Group Holdings Limited.
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