| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| FOR |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| FOR |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 08864813) |
| CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| Page |
| Company Information | 1 |
| Statement of Financial Position | 2 |
| Notes to the Financial Statements | 4 |
| Accountants' Report | 8 |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED |
| COMPANY INFORMATION |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| DIRECTORS: |
| SECRETARY: |
| REGISTERED OFFICE: |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| ACCOUNTANTS: |
| Chartered Accountants |
| 55 Loudoun Road |
| St John's Wood |
| London |
| NW8 0DL |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 08864813) |
| STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION |
| 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| 31.1.25 | 31.1.24 |
| Notes | £ | £ |
| FIXED ASSETS |
| Tangible assets | 4 |
| CURRENT ASSETS |
| Stocks |
| Debtors | 5 |
| Cash at bank and in hand |
| CREDITORS |
| Amounts falling due within one year | 6 | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| NET CURRENT ASSETS |
| TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES |
| PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| NET ASSETS |
| CAPITAL AND RESERVES |
| Called up share capital | 7 |
| Retained earnings |
| SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS |
| 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. |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 08864813) |
| STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION - continued |
| 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 08864813) |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| 1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION |
| James Brooke Services Limited is a |
| The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£). |
| 2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
| Basis of preparing the financial statements |
| Monetary amounts are rounded to the nearest pound. |
| Turnover |
| Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. |
| Tangible fixed assets |
| Plant and machinery | - |
| Fixtures and fittings | - |
| Computer equipment | - |
| Stocks |
| Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items. |
| Taxation |
| Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, 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 statement of financial position date. |
| Deferred tax |
| Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the statement of financial position 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. |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 08864813) |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| 2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued |
| 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. |
| Interest payable |
| Interest payable is charged to the profit and loss account on an accruals basis. |
| Basic financial assets |
| Basic financial assets, which include trade and other debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction and where material are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any impairment. |
| Impairment of financial assets |
| Financial assets, other than those held at fair value are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date. |
| Financial assets are impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the financial asset, the estimated future cash flows have been affected. The impairment loss is recognised in the Statement of Total Comprehensive Income |
| Derecognition of financial assets |
| Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire, or when it transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity |
| Basic financial liabilities |
| Basic financial liabilities, including trade and other payables and loans from company undertakings that are classified as debt are initially measured 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 the market rate of interest . |
| Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payables are classified as current liabilities if a payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are present as non current liabilities. Short term creditors are initially recognised at transaction price and where material are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method |
| Cash and cash equivalents |
| Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less. |
| 3. | EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS |
| The average number of employees during the year was |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 08864813) |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| 4. | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS |
| Fixtures |
| Plant and | and | Computer |
| machinery | fittings | equipment | Totals |
| £ | £ | £ | £ |
| COST |
| At 1 February 2024 |
| Additions |
| At 31 January 2025 |
| DEPRECIATION |
| At 1 February 2024 |
| Charge for year |
| At 31 January 2025 |
| NET BOOK VALUE |
| At 31 January 2025 |
| At 31 January 2024 |
| 5. | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
| 31.1.25 | 31.1.24 |
| £ | £ |
| Trade debtors |
| Other debtors |
| 6. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
| 31.1.25 | 31.1.24 |
| £ | £ |
| Trade creditors |
| Amounts owed to group undertakings |
| Taxation and social security |
| Other creditors |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 08864813) |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025 |
| 7. | CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL |
| Allotted, issued and fully paid: |
| Number: | Class: | Nominal | 31.1.25 | 31.1.24 |
| value: | £ | £ |
| A Ordinary | £1 | 1 | 1 |
| B Ordinary | £1 | 1 | 1 |
| C Ordinary | £1 | 1 | 1 |
| D Ordinary | £1 | 1 | 1 |
| E Ordinary | £1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | F Ordinary | £1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | G Ordinary | £1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | H Ordinary | £1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 8 |
| 8. | RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES |
| During the year, total dividends of £502,556 were paid to the directors . |
| During the year, the directors made drawings of £400,448 from the company. |
| The directors were indebted to the company for the sum of £15,852 at the year end. |
| ACCOUNTANTS' REPORT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
| ON THE UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF |
| JAMES BROOKE SERVICES LIMITED |
| The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors in respect of the company's annual unaudited financial statements. In accordance with the Companies Act 2006, the company is only required to file a Statement of Financial Position. Readers are cautioned that the Income Statement and certain other primary statements and the Report of the Directors are not required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies. |
| In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of James Brooke Services Limited for the year ended 31 January 2025 which comprise the Income Statement, Statement of Financial Position and the related notes from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us. |
| As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed within the ICAEW's regulations and guidance at http://www.icaew.com/en/membership/regulations-standards-and-guidance. |
| This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of James Brooke Services Limited, as a body, in accordance with our terms of engagement. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of James Brooke Services Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of James Brooke Services Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than James Brooke Services Limited and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report. |
| It is your duty to ensure that James Brooke Services Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of James Brooke Services Limited. You consider that James Brooke Services 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 financial statements of James Brooke Services 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 financial statements. |
| Chartered Accountants |
| 55 Loudoun Road |
| St John's Wood |
| London |
| NW8 0DL |