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REGISTERED NUMBER: 03338815 (England and Wales)
























Gowling Group Ltd

Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st March 2025






Gowling Group Ltd (Registered number: 03338815)

Contents of the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31st March 2025










Page

Company information 1

Abridged balance sheet 2

Notes to the financial statements 4


Gowling Group Ltd

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31st March 2025







Directors: D Gowling
M J Gowling
S A Gowling





Registered office: Unit 8
Monarch Court Yard
Brackmills Industrial Estate
Northampton
NN4 7BD





Registered number: 03338815 (England and Wales)





Accountants: A.J. Lewis
Chartered Accountant
Lewis & Son Accountants Limited
37 Stoke Road
Blisworth
Northampton
NN7 3BZ

Gowling Group Ltd (Registered number: 03338815)

Abridged Balance Sheet
31st March 2025

2025 2024
Notes £    £    £    £   
Fixed assets
Intangible assets 3 - 4,541
Tangible assets 4 1,182,010 1,210,998
1,182,010 1,215,539

Current assets
Stocks 2,833,853 2,423,520
Debtors 1,062,134 1,345,180
Cash at bank and in hand 570 394,566
3,896,557 4,163,266
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year 1,128,843 1,889,378
Net current assets 2,767,714 2,273,888
Total assets less current liabilities 3,949,724 3,489,427

Creditors
Amounts falling due after more than one
year

(30,823

)

(96,504

)

Provisions for liabilities (115,359 ) (114,279 )
Net assets 3,803,542 3,278,644

Capital and reserves
Called up share capital 100 100
Retained earnings 3,803,442 3,278,544
3,803,542 3,278,644

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31st March 2025.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

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.

Gowling Group Ltd (Registered number: 03338815)

Abridged Balance Sheet - continued
31st March 2025


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

All the members have consented to the preparation of an abridged Balance sheet for the year ended 31st March 2025 in accordance with Section 444(2A) of the Companies Act 2006.

In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Profit and loss account has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 4th August 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:





D Gowling - Director


Gowling Group Ltd (Registered number: 03338815)

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31st March 2025


1. Accounting policies

Basis of preparing the financial statements
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Revenue recognition
Turnover is recognised at the point of sale to the customer.

Intangible assets
Intangible assets are initially measured at cost. After initial recognition, intangible assets are measured at cost less any accumulated amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses.

Patents and licences are being amortised evenly over their estimated useful life of nil years.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Freehold property - 2% straight line
Leasehold improvements - 20% on reducing balance and 10% on cost
Plant and machinery - 15% on reducing balance
Motor vehicles - 25% on reducing balance

Freehold land is not depreciated.

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 Profit and loss account, 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 balance sheet date.


Gowling Group Ltd (Registered number: 03338815)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31st March 2025


1. Accounting policies - continued
Deferred tax
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet 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.

Foreign currencies
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date. Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of transaction. Exchange differences are taken into account in arriving at the operating result.

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions are charged to the profit and loss account for the year in which they are payable to the scheme. Differences between the contributions payable and the contributions actually paid in the year are shown as either accruals or prepayments at the year end.

Leasing and hire purchase contracts
Assets obtained under hire purchase contracts and finance leases are capitalised as tangible fixed assets. Assets acquired under finance leases are depreciated over the shorter of the lease term and their useful lives. Assets acquired under hire purchase contracts are depreciated over their useful lives. Finance leases are those where substantially all of the benefits and risks of ownership are assumed by the company. Obligations under such agreements are included in the creditors, net of the finance charge allocated to future periods. The finance element of the rental payment is charged to the profit and loss account so as to produce a constant periodic rate of charge on the net obligations outstanding in each period.

Rentals applicable to operating leases where substantially all of the benefits and risks of ownership remain with the lessor are charged to the profit and loss account on a straight line basis.

2. Employees and directors

The average number of employees during the year was 49 (2024 - 42 ) .

Gowling Group Ltd (Registered number: 03338815)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31st March 2025


3. Intangible fixed assets
Totals
£   
Cost
At 1st April 2024 4,541
Disposals (4,541 )
At 31st March 2025 -
Net book value

At 31st March 2025 -
At 31st March 2024 4,541

4. Tangible fixed assets
Totals
£   
Cost
At 1st April 2024 2,198,581
Additions 177,579
Disposals (245,412 )
At 31st March 2025 2,130,748
Depreciation
At 1st April 2024 987,583
Charge for year 167,000
Eliminated on disposal (205,845 )
At 31st March 2025 948,738
Net book value
At 31st March 2025 1,182,010
At 31st March 2024 1,210,998

Gowling Group Ltd (Registered number: 03338815)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31st March 2025


5. Leasing agreements

Minimum lease payments fall due as follows:

Hire purchase
contracts
2025 2024
£    £   
Net obligations repayable:
Within one year 65,683 27,802
Between one and five years 30,823 96,504
96,506 124,306

Non-cancellable
operating leases
2025 2024
£    £   
Within one year 289,968 274,317
Between one and five years 756,786 801,921
In more than five years 656,135 840,555
1,702,889 1,916,793

6. Secured debts

The following secured debts are included within creditors:

2025 2024
£    £   
Bank loans - 206,537
Hire purchase contracts 96,506 124,306
96,506 330,843

Gowling Group Ltd (Registered number: 03338815)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31st March 2025


7. Directors' advances, credits and guarantees

The following advances and credits to a director subsisted during the years ended 31st March 2025 and 31st March 2024:

2025 2024
£    £   
D Gowling
Balance outstanding at start of year - -
Amounts repaid - -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year 22,414 -