Company registration number:
for the Year Ended
We Are Weymouth Limited
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Accountants Report |
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Balance Sheet |
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Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements |
We Are Weymouth Limited
Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Directors of the company
The directors who held office during the year were as follows:
Principal activity
The principal activity of the company is to operate a Business Development District (BID) on behalf of the BID levy payers and to deliver the Business Plan as voted through in the ballot held in March 2023 for the four years and seven months life of the BID.
We Are Weymouth Limited
Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
Chairman's statement
The Weymouth BID board is composed of levy-paying local businesses and is dedicated to ensuring Weymouth's prosperity and actively addressing any challenges that arise. We are committed to creating an effective and efficient BID, valuing the input of levy payers, and focusing on delivering a better future for the town. Our decisions are crucial to the success of both the town and our members, and the BID remains a strong representative voice for businesses during times of uncertainty and change.
This year, we tackled significant issues to shape the town, as detailed in this report. Key projects from the previous year, such as the September Dusk ‘til Dark event, Christmas activities, the crime reduction partnership, and the BID Ranger, were continued. We also focused on marketing the town to a broader demographic to attract more visitors. During the financial year from April 2024 to March 2025, we enhanced, shaped, and promoted the town, concentrating on the shoulder months. Many of our projects received local and national attention as detailed in the report.
In 2024/25, we delivered on many projects and continued to collaborate closely with our partners, represent the business community, and where appropriate, challenge decisions within the town.
We can only achieve an even better 2025/2026 with your productive engagement and involvement and I encourage any members who wish to engage constructively with the BID to contact any of the operational team or board members.
Having been a firm critic of the BID during its first term, I joined the steering group for BID2 in 2018 and helped set its current direction which, as last year’s vote proved, has been much more popular among levy-payers. I left the board later that year to pursue my heritage interests but was very pleased to rejoin what was by then a much stronger board in 2020.
I was delighted to be elected as chair in July 2024 when Chris Truscott stood down after four very successful years in the position. I want to thank Chris for his time as chair and for continuing to serve as a director of the board. I would also like to recognise the efforts of all our board members, who devote a considerable amount of unremunerated time with the sole focus of making a positive difference to the area in which we all operate. Additionally, I welcome three new Board Directors to the team: Cllr Howard Atkinson on behalf of Weymouth Town Council, Paul Mooney owner of Cove Gallery on South Harbourside and David Hiscutt manager of 3 Londis shops in the area including Westham Road. I look forward to working with the new Board and hope that any members who wish to drive positive change for our town will volunteer, whether as directors or as a sounding board, to ensure we are truly representative of the BID demographic and deliver a long-term strategy for the town.
My biggest thanks goes out to Dawn, Kelly & Anita who make all the things the board decide upon happen.
We Are Weymouth Limited
Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
Directors' liabilities
The company does not have any share capital. Instead, each director has agreed to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 in the event of winding up as per clause 3.2 of the Memorandum and Articles of Association.
Small companies provision statement
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
Approved by the Board on
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Independent Chartered Accountants' Review Report to the Directors of We Are Weymouth Limited
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
We have reviewed the financial statements of We Are Weymouth Limited for the year ended 31 March 2025, which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet and related notes as set out on pages 6 to 9, 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 (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Directors' Responsibility for the Financial Statements
As explained more fully in the Directors' Responsibilities Statement set out on page 4, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view.
Accountants' Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express a conclusion on the financial statements. We conducted our review in accordance with International Standard on Review Engagements (ISRE) 2400 (Revised) Engagements to review historical financial statements and ICAEW technical release TECH 09/13AAF (Revised) Assurance review engagements on historical financial statements. ISRE 2400 (Revised) requires us to conclude whether anything has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the financial statements, taken as a whole, are not prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, specifically FRS 102 Section 1A. ISRE 2400 (Revised) also requires us to comply with the ICAEW Code of Ethics.
Scope of Assurance Review
A review of financial statements in accordance with ISRE 2400 (Revised) is a limited assurance engagement. We have performed procedures, primarily consisting of making enquiries of management and others within the entity, as appropriate, applying analytical procedures, and evaluating the evidence obtained. The procedures performed in a review are substantially less than those performed in an audit conducted in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK). Accordingly, we do not express an audit opinion on these financial statements.
Independent Chartered Accountants' Review Report to the Directors of We Are Weymouth Limited
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
Conclusion
Based on our review, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the financial statements have not been prepared:
• so as to give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 March 2025 and of its surplus for the period then ended;
• in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland'; and
• in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's directors, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter. Our review has been undertaken so that we may state to the company's directors those matters we have agreed with them in our engagement letter 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 directors as a body for our work, for this report or the conclusions we have formed.
Chartered Accountants
Blackbrook Park Avenue
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 2PX
We Are Weymouth Limited
(Registration number: 07953027)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025
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For the financial year ending 31 March 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Directors' responsibilities:
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The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. |
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006. The option not to file the profit and loss account and directors’ report has been taken.
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We Are Weymouth Limited
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
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General information |
The company is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England and Wales, and consequently does not have share capital. Each of the members is liable to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 towards the assets of the company in the event of liquidation.
The address of its registered office is:
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Accounting policies |
Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates
The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.
Statement of compliance
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006.
Basis of preparation
These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.
These financial statements are presented in Sterling (£).
Turnover recognition
Turnover represents levies received from Dorset County Council collected from business rates payers within the BID area and other local fundraising activities. Turnover is shown net of value added tax and is recognised in the period to which it relates.
Turnover from other fundraising activities is recognised as it is earned.
Tangible assets
Tangible assets are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses.
The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.
Depreciation of tangible assets
Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:
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We Are Weymouth Limited
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.
Debtors
Trade debtors are amounts due from levy payers in respect of levy payments diue to the company in the ordinary course of business.
Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.
Creditors
Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Trade creditors are classified as current liabilities if the company does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.
Trade creditors are recognised initially at the transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
Defined contribution pension obligation
The company operates a defined contribution plan for its employees. A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which the company pays fixed contributions into a separate entity. Once the contributions have been paid the company has no further payment obligations.
The contributions are recognised as an expense in the profit and loss account when they fall due. Amounts not paid are shown in accruals as a liability in the balance sheet. The assets of the plan are held separately from the company in independently administered funds.
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The average number of persons employed by the company (excluding directors) during the year was
We Are Weymouth Limited
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
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