Company registration number 14528135 (England and Wales)
OBP GROUP LIMITED
UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025
PAGES FOR FILING WITH REGISTRAR
OBP GROUP LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
Director
Mr L K Walters
Company number
14528135
Registered office
The Woodlands
Woodland Road
Dodford
Bromsgrove
Worcestershire
B61 9BS
Accountants
Ormerod Rutter Limited
The Oakley
Kidderminster Road
Droitwich
Worcestershire
WR9 9AY
Bankers
National Westminster Bank Plc
Chatham Customer Service Centre
Western Avenue
Waterside Court
Chatham Maritime
Chatham
Kent
ME4 4RT
OBP GROUP LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Accountants' report
1
Balance sheet
2 - 3
Notes to the financial statements
4 - 9
OBP GROUP LIMITED
ACCOUNTANTS' REPORT TO THE DIRECTOR ON THE PREPARATION OF THE UNAUDITED STATUTORY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF OBP GROUP LIMITED FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025
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In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of OBP Group Limited for the year ended 31 January 2025 which comprise, the balance sheet 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 at https://www.icaew.com/regulation.

This report is made solely to the board of directors of OBP Group 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 OBP Group Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the board of directors of OBP Group Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than OBP Group Limited and its board of directors as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that OBP Group 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 OBP Group Limited. You consider that OBP Group 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 OBP Group 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.

Ormerod Rutter Limited
30 April 2025
Chartered Accountants
The Oakley
Kidderminster Road
Droitwich
Worcestershire
WR9 9AY
OBP GROUP LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 JANUARY 2025
31 January 2025
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2025
2024
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
3
62,343
40,012
Investments
4
952,919
960,744
1,015,262
1,000,756
Current assets
Debtors
6
59,009
123,222
Cash at bank and in hand
18,233
21,512
77,242
144,734
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
7
(363,243)
(275,447)
Net current liabilities
(286,001)
(130,713)
Total assets less current liabilities
729,261
870,043
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
8
(235,394)
(318,000)
Provisions for liabilities
10
-
0
(3,208)
Net assets
493,867
548,835
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
11
151
151
Profit and loss reserves
493,716
548,684
Total equity
493,867
548,835

The director of the company has elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true

For the financial year ended 31 January 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The director acknowledges his responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year in question in accordance with section 476.

These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

OBP GROUP LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET (CONTINUED)
AS AT 31 JANUARY 2025
31 January 2025
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The financial statements were approved and signed by the director and authorised for issue on 30 April 2025
Mr L K Walters
Director
Company registration number 14528135 (England and Wales)
OBP GROUP LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025
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1
Accounting policies
Company information

OBP Group Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is The Woodlands, Woodland Road, Dodford, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, United Kingdom, B61 9BS.

1.1
Accounting convention

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

The company has taken advantage of the exemption under section 399 of the Companies Act 2006 not to prepare consolidated accounts, on the basis that the group of which this is the parent qualifies as a small group. The financial statements present information about the company as an individual entity and not about its group.

1.2
Turnover

Turnover is recognised at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for services provided in the normal course of business, and is shown net of VAT.

Revenue from the provision of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion, when the costs incurred and costs to complete can be estimated reliably.

1.3
Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.

Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:

Computer equipment
25% on cost
Motor vehicles
25% on reducing balance
1.4
Fixed asset investments

Interests in subsidiaries, associates and jointly controlled entities are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost less any accumulated impairment losses. The investments are assessed for impairment at each reporting date and any impairment losses or reversals of impairment losses are recognised immediately in profit or loss.

A subsidiary is an entity controlled by the company. Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of the entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities.

An associate is an entity, being neither a subsidiary nor a joint venture, in which the company holds a long-term interest and where the company has significant influence. The company considers that it has significant influence where it has the power to participate in the financial and operating decisions of the associate.

Entities in which the company has a long term interest and shares control under a contractual arrangement are classified as jointly controlled entities.

OBP GROUP LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.5
Taxation

The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.

Current tax

The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.

Deferred tax

Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.

 

The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.

1.6
Employee benefits

The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received.

1.7
Retirement benefits

Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.

1.8
Leases

Leases are classified as finance leases whenever the terms of the lease transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the lessees. All other leases are classified as operating leases.

 

Assets held under finance leases are recognised as assets at the lower of the assets fair value at the date of inception and the present value of the minimum lease payments. The related liability is included in the balance sheet as a finance lease obligation. Lease payments are treated as consisting of capital and interest elements. The interest is charged to profit or loss so as to produce a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability.

Rentals payable under operating leases, including any lease incentives received, are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease except where another more systematic basis is more representative of the time pattern in which economic benefits from the leases asset are consumed.

OBP GROUP LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025
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2
Employees

The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:

2025
2024
Number
Number
Total
5
4
3
Tangible fixed assets
Computer equipment
Motor vehicles
Total
£
£
£
Cost
At 1 February 2024
-
0
53,350
53,350
Additions
827
38,990
39,817
At 31 January 2025
827
92,340
93,167
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 February 2024
-
0
13,338
13,338
Depreciation charged in the year
172
17,314
17,486
At 31 January 2025
172
30,652
30,824
Carrying amount
At 31 January 2025
655
61,688
62,343
At 31 January 2024
-
0
40,012
40,012
4
Fixed asset investments
2025
2024
£
£
Shares in group undertakings and participating interests
952,919
952,844
Other investments other than loans
-
0
7,900
952,919
960,744
OBP GROUP LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025
4
Fixed asset investments
(Continued)
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Movements in fixed asset investments
Shares in subsidiaries
Other investments
Total
£
£
£
Cost or valuation
At 1 February 2024
952,844
7,900
960,744
Additions
75
-
75
Disposals
-
(7,900)
(7,900)
At 31 January 2025
952,919
-
952,919
Carrying amount
At 31 January 2025
952,919
-
952,919
At 31 January 2024
952,844
7,900
960,744
5
Financial instruments
2025
2024
£
£
Carrying amount of financial assets
Instruments measured at fair value through profit or loss
-
7,900
6
Debtors
2025
2024
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Amounts owed by group undertakings and undertakings in which the company has a participating interest
54,505
115,586
Other debtors
4,310
7,636
58,815
123,222
Deferred tax asset
194
-
0
59,009
123,222
7
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2025
2024
£
£
Trade creditors
4,760
4,294
Amounts owed to group undertakings and undertakings in which the company has a participating interest
212,470
133,314
Taxation and social security
32,762
27,104
Other creditors
113,251
110,735
363,243
275,447
OBP GROUP LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025
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8
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
2025
2024
£
£
Other creditors
235,394
318,000
9
Secured debts
The following secured debts are included within creditors:
2025
2024
£
£
Hire purchase contracts
30,412
-
Hire purchase contracts are secured against the assets to which they relate.
10
Provisions for liabilities
2025
2024
£
£
Deferred tax liabilities
-
0
3,208
11
Called up share capital
2025
2024
2025
2024
Ordinary share capital
Number
Number
£
£
Issued and fully paid
Ordinary A of £1 each
106
106
106
106
Ordinary B of £1 each
15
15
15
15
Ordinary C of £1 each
15
15
15
15
Ordinary D of £1 each
15
15
15
15
151
151
151
151
12
Directors' transactions

Advances or credits have been granted by the company to its directors as follows:

Description
% Rate
Opening balance
Amounts repaid
Closing balance
£
£
£
Loan account
-
6,340
(6,340)
-
6,340
(6,340)
-
OBP GROUP LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2025
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13
Related party transactions

The company has taken advantage of exemption, under the terms of Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', not to disclose related party transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries within the group.

14
Ultimate controlling party

The ultimate controlling party is Mr L K Walters.

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