The directors present the strategic report for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Shirley Parsons Professional Services Ltd is an investment holding Company for a global portfolio of businesses employing Consultants & Managing Consultants with Expertise in Health, Safety, Quality, Environmental and Sustainability (HSEQS).

Expert services in these fields are delivered through comprehensive Talent Acquisition, Labour Leasing, Project and Programme Management, as well as consulting engagements supported by advanced technology.

At the end of 2024 the Group had operating practices in various countries and continues to drive Global Brand Recognition & Brand Respect.

The company operates a Risk Register as a controlled element within our ISO9001 QMS. Regular time & event driven reviews mean that all known Risks are assessed for Impact, likelihood and mitigation effectiveness as soon as needed.

There are no material uncertainties or risks that the board is aware of, outside of usual operational risks that apply to running a business of this size and complexity.

Credit Control and Facility Management are key elements supporting the liquidity of our businesses. Globally the Group reviews these on a monthly basis at both a Global & local level.

Headline Performance (£M): -

The Group & each Company within the Group operates a Goal Management Framework. This ensures congruency between the Group’s principle goals, through company and team down to an individual level.

Our highest-level goals pertain to Financial and Social Responsibility performance. These cascade down through market, value proposition, people, enabling and cultural goals and the standards that apply to the setting of these goals.

KPIs pertain to progress against our short (2025), medium (2026), and longer term (2027 & Beyond) Goals.

Breakthrough and sustainability considerations are material to setting our longer-term goals.

As the Group grows, we continue to evolve our management structures, making sure that the accountabilities & responsibilities of each person & team are totally clear.

Outlook for 2025 & Beyond 

The Directors expect similar results for 2025 and is fully supported by the Group ultimate holding company, Shirley Parsons Holdings and its Directors and shareholders.

The Directors expect that 2025 will be positive for the whole group with stronger foundations to scale internationally in 2026 & beyond.

On behalf of the board

The directors present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.

The results for the year are set out on page 8.

No ordinary dividends were paid. The directors do not recommend payment of a final dividend.

The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:

In accordance with the company's articles, a resolution proposing that Edwards be reappointed as auditor of the company will be put at a General Meeting.

So far as each person who was a director at the date of approving this report is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s auditor is unaware. Additionally, the directors individually have taken all the necessary steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of all relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditor is aware of that information.

These financial statements are prepared on the going concern basis. The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

In assessing the going concern basis, the directors have considered the company’s business activities and its financial position. The company continues to be a non-trading central support service for the group. As at 31 December 2024 the company had net current liabilities and net liabilities, however included in creditors amounts falling within one year are amounts owed to group companies. To ensure that the company remains a going concern, Shirley Parsons Holdings Limited have confirmed that they, and the wider group, will continue to provide such financial support as the company requires to enable it to meet its liabilities as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date these financial statements are approved.

The directors continue to closely monitor the company's liquidity and capital adequacy and in doing so, forecasts have been produced covering a period of at least twelve months from the date that the financial statements are approved.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the medium-sized companies exemption.

The directors are responsible for preparing the annual report and the 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 United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). 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 of the profit or loss of the company for that period.

In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company 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 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 hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

We have audited the financial statements of Shirley Parsons Professional Services Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the statement of income and retained earnings, the balance sheet and notes to the financial statements, including 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).

In our opinion the financial statements:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 December 2024 and of its loss for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion

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 company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’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.

Conclusions relating to going concern

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 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.

Other information

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.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:

• the information given in the 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 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 company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the strategic report or the directors' report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

• adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

• the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

As explained more fully in the directors' responsibilities statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

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 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, employment law and health & safety regulations compliance.

We identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud, to be in the following areas: the override of controls by management, revenue journals, inappropriate treatment of non-routine transactions and areas of estimation uncertainty specifically surrounding investment valuations. Our audit procedures to respond to these risks included enquiries of management about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, review and discussion of non-routine transactions, sample testing on the posting of journals and review of accounting estimates for biases.

Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.

These inherent limitations are particularly significant in the case of misstatement resulting from fraud as this may involve sophisticated schemes designed to avoid detection, including deliberate failure to record transactions, collusion or the provision of intentional misrepresentations.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the company's member 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 member those matters we are required to state to the member 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 member, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

The profit and loss account has been prepared on the basis that all operations are continuing operations.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions relating to medium-sized companies.

Shirley Parsons Professional Services Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is B2 Building (4th Floor), Bear Brook Business Park, Walton Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7QW.

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.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

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

This company is a qualifying entity for the purposes of FRS 102, being a member of a group where the parent of that group prepares publicly available consolidated financial statements, including this company, which are intended to give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the group. The company has therefore taken advantage of exemptions from the following disclosure requirements:

• Section 4 'Statement of Financial Position' - Reconciliation of the opening and closing number of shares;

• Section 7 ‘Statement of Cash Flows’: Presentation of a statement of cash flow and related notes and disclosures;

• Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instrument Issues’ - Carrying amounts, interest income/expense and net gains/losses for each category of financial instrument; basis of determining fair values; details of collateral, loan defaults or breaches, details of hedges, hedging fair value changes recognised in profit or loss and in other comprehensive income;

• Section 33 ‘Related Party Disclosures’: Compensation for key management personnel.

The financial statements of the company are consolidated in the financial statements of Shirley Parsons Holdings Limited. These consolidated financial statements are available from Companies House, Crown Way, Maindy, Cardiff, CF13 3UZ.

The company has taken advantage of the exemption under section 400 of the Companies Act 2006 not to prepare consolidated accounts. The financial statements present information about the company as an individual entity and not about its group.

These financial statements are prepared on the going concern basis. The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.true

In assessing the going concern basis, the directors have considered the company’s business activities and its financial position. The company continues to be a non-trading central support service for the group. As at 31 December 2024 the company had net current liabilities and net liabilities, however included in creditors amounts falling within one year are amounts owed to group companies. To ensure that the company remains a going concern, Shirley Parsons Holdings Limited have confirmed that they, and the wider group, will continue to provide such financial support as the company requires to enable it to meet its liabilities as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date these financial statements are approved.

The directors continue to closely monitor the company's liquidity and capital adequacy and in doing so, forecasts have been produced covering a period of at least twelve months from the date that the financial statements are approved.

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 and other sales related taxes.

Intangible assets acquired separately from a business are recognised at cost and are subsequently measured at cost less accumulated amortisation and accumulated impairment losses.

Amortisation 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:

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:

The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is credited or charged to profit or loss.

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.

Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.

The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

Financial instruments are recognised in the company's balance sheet when the company 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.

Short term trade debtors are measured at transaction price, less any impairment. Other debtors are initially measured at fair value, net of transaction costs, and are subsequently measured at amortised cost, less any impairment.

Short term trade creditors are measured at transaction price. Other financial liabilities are initially measured at fair value, net of transaction costs, and are subsequently measured at amortised cost.

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

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

The company operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. Contributions payable are charged to the profit and loss account in the year they are payable.

Transactions in currencies other than pounds sterling are recorded at the rates of exchange prevailing at the dates of the transactions. At each reporting end date, monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rates prevailing on the reporting end date. Gains and losses arising on translation in the period are included in profit or loss.

In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

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 where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

The following judgements (apart from those involving estimates) have had the most significant effect on amounts recognised in the financial statements.

The carrying value of investments in subsidiary companies is dependent on the calculation of value in use, which uses a number of assumptions about future performance and expectations.

All turnover arose in the United Kingdom under the principal activity of the company.

Auditor's remuneration for 2023 was borne by another group company.

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

Their aggregate remuneration comprised:

The actual credit for the year can be reconciled to the expected (credit)/charge for the year based on the profit or loss and the standard rate of tax as follows:

Details of the company's subsidiaries at 31 December 2024 are as follows:

All subsidiaries registered in England and Wales have the same registered office as Shirley Parsons Professional Services Limited.

All subsidiaries registered in the USA have a registered office of 71 Summer St, Boston MA 02210 United States

Shirley Parsons GmbH has a registered address of Duisburger Strasse 91, 40479 Dusseldorf, Germany

Shirley Parsons Ireland Limited has a registered office of 13 Classon House, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin 14, D14 W9Y3.

Shirley Parsons Professional Services Limited Taiwan Branch has a registered office of 23F., No.218, Sec.1, Wenxin Rd., Nantun Dist., Taichung City, Taiwan 40865

Shirley Parsons Denmark ApS has a registered office of Vindingaard Ringvej 1, DK-7100 Vejle

Shirley Parsons B.V. has a registered office of Nieuwe Gracht 3, 2011 NB, Haarlem, Netherlands

Shirley Parsons Inc Canada has a registered address of 12th Floor, 30 Adelaide St E, Toronto, ON M5C 3G6

Details of the company's associates at 31 December 2024 are as follows:

* Wholly owned subsidiaries of Kineticom, Inc.

Bank overdrafts are secured by way of a fixed floating charge over the assets of the group.

The following are the major deferred tax liabilities and assets recognised by the company and movements thereon:

At the reporting end date the company had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, which fall due as follows:

Shirley Parsons Professional Services Limited is party to a multi-currency, cross guarantee securing overdraft facilities for Identify Networks Limited and Shirley Parsons Limited. At 31 December 2024, the overdrafts under the arrangement totalled £302,793 (2023 - £Nil) and the overall net banking position under the arrangement was £261,336 (2023 - £504,414).

The company has taken advantage of the exemption conferred within FRS102 section 33.1A not to disclose transactions between wholly owned members of the same group.

As at 31 December 2024, included within creditors was a related party loan of £317,206 (2023 - £388,528), on which the company charged interest during the year of £21,649 (2023 - £4,023).

As at 31 December 2024, included within creditors was an amount owed to a related party of £100,000 (2023 - £50,000),

During the year the company entered into transactions with a related party in relation to consultancy fees amounting to £118,885 (2023 - £65,670).

Shirley Parsons Holdings Limited is the immediate parent undertaking of the company.

Shirley Parsons Holdings Limited is the largest and smallest group for which group financial statements are prepared. The group financial statements are available to the public and may be obtained from Companies House.

The ultimate controlling party is deemed to be the Roebuck family due to their majority ownership of the company.