Company Registration No. 04742426 (England and Wales)
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Financial statements
for the period ended 31 December 2024
Pages for filing with the registrar
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Contents
Page
Statement of financial position
1
Notes to the financial statements
2 - 10
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Statement of financial position
As at 31 December 2024
1
31 December 2024
30 April 2024
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets
4
19,827
Tangible assets
5
3,099
3,099
22,926
3,099
Current assets
Stocks
28,483
15,701
Debtors falling due after more than one year
6
6,589
Debtors falling due within one year
6
8,760,922
8,000,591
Cash at bank and in hand
227,213
653,729
9,023,207
8,670,021
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
7
(1,223,968)
(1,647,793)
Net current assets
7,799,239
7,022,228
Total assets less current liabilities
7,822,165
7,025,327
Provisions for liabilities
8
(775)
Net assets
7,822,165
7,024,552
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
10
2
2
Profit and loss reserves
7,822,163
7,024,550
Total equity
7,822,165
7,024,552
The notes on pages 2 to 10 form part of these financial statements.
The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the income statement within the financial statements.true
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 11 September 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:
Simon Foster
Director
Company Registration No. 04742426
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements
For the period ended 31 December 2024
2
1
Accounting policies
Company information
Marketing In Partnership Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is New London House, 172 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5QR. The company's principal activity is set out in the Directors' report.
1.1
Reporting period
These financial statements cover the eight month period ended 31 December 2024. The comparative period is the year to 30 April 2024, therefore comparative amounts presented are not entirely comparable. The company has changed its reporting period to align with its parent company Arc Investco Limited, which acquired the company during 2023.
1.2
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 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, modified to include certain financial instruments at fair value. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
1.3
Going concern
The company remains profitable and is expected to continue to operate profitably for the foreseeable future. After reviewing the resources and credit facilities available to the company, the directors are confident that the company has sufficient resources to continue its operations for the foreseeable future. Although not expected to be needed, additionally, the directors have received confirmation from the ultimate parent company, Arc Investco Limited, that financial support will be provided if the situation arises. Arc Investco Limited has confirmed both its ability and intention to offer financial assistance to the company for a period of at least 12 months plus one day from the signing of the financial statements. The directors of the company are common directors of the parent company and are confident support will be available if needed.true
Based on the company's business activities and the availability of financial support from its parent company, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company will be able to continue its operations for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
1.4
Turnover
Event income is recognised at the date of the event and speaker income is recognised at the date at which the agreement is signed. Where the outcome cannot be estimated reliably, revenue is recognised only to the extent of the expenses recognised that are recoverable.
1.5
Intangible fixed assets other than goodwill
Intangible assets acquired separately from a business are recognised at cost and are subsequently measured at cost less accumulated amortisation and accumulated impairment losses.
Intangible assets acquired on business combinations are recognised separately from goodwill at the acquisition date where it is probable that the expected future economic benefits that are attributable to the asset will flow to the entity and the fair value of the asset can be measured reliably; the intangible asset arises from contractual or other legal rights; and the intangible asset is separable from the entity.
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements (continued)
For the period ended 31 December 2024
1
Accounting policies (continued)
3
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:
Software
Straight line over 3-5 years
1.6
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:
Fixtures, fittings & equipment
20% straight line
Computer equipment
20% straight line
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.
1.7
Impairment of fixed assets
At each reporting period end date, the company reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible and intangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any). Where it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, the company estimates the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs.
Recoverable amount is the higher of fair value less costs to sell and value in use. In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the asset for which the estimates of future cash flows have not been adjusted.
If the recoverable amount of an asset (or cash-generating unit) is estimated to be less than its carrying amount, the carrying amount of the asset (or cash-generating unit) is reduced to its recoverable amount. An impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss, unless the relevant asset is carried at a revalued amount, in which case the impairment loss is treated as a revaluation decrease.
Recognised impairment losses are reversed if, and only if, the reasons for the impairment loss have ceased to apply. Where an impairment loss subsequently reverses, the carrying amount of the asset (or cash-generating unit) is increased to the revised estimate of its recoverable amount, but so that the increased carrying amount does not exceed the carrying amount that would have been determined had no impairment loss been recognised for the asset (or cash-generating unit) in prior years. A reversal of an impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss, unless the relevant asset is carried at a revalued amount, in which case the reversal of the impairment loss is treated as a revaluation increase.
1.8
Stocks
Stocks are stated at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to sell, which is equivalent to net realisable value.
At each reporting date, an assessment is made for impairment. Any excess of the carrying amount of stocks over its estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell is recognised as an impairment loss in profit or loss. Reversals of impairment losses are also recognised in profit or loss.
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements (continued)
For the period ended 31 December 2024
1
Accounting policies (continued)
4
1.9
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks and other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.
1.10
Financial instruments
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 statement of financial position 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.
Basic financial assets
Basic financial assets, which include debtors, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.
Classification of financial liabilities
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.
Basic financial liabilities
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised 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 a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.
Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.
Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
1.11
Equity instruments
Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
1.12
Taxation
The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements (continued)
For the period ended 31 December 2024
1
Accounting policies (continued)
5
Current tax
The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the income statement 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. Where items recognised in other comprehensive income or equity are chargeable to or deductible for tax purposes, the resulting current or deferred tax expense or income is presented in the same component of comprehensive income or equity as the transaction or other event that resulted in the tax expense or income. 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.
1.13
Employee benefits
The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of the cost of stock or fixed assets.
The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received.
Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the company is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.
1.14
Retirement benefits
The pension costs charges in the financial statements represent the contribution payable by the company during the year.
1.15
Leases
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.
1.16
Foreign exchange
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.
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements (continued)
For the period ended 31 December 2024
6
2
Critical accounting judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty
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.
Key sources of estimation uncertainty
The estimates and assumptions which have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities are as follows.
Reoverability of amounts owed by group undertakings
Provision for impairment of the carrying value of amounts owed by group undertakings is made based on management's estimate of the prospect of recovering the amounts due, which includes considering the solvency of the counterparty and its future outlook, based on budgets and forecasts prepared by management.
3
Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the period was:
31 December
30 April
2024
2024
Number
Number
Total
21
22
4
Intangible fixed assets
Other
£
Cost
At 1 May 2024
Additions
19,827
At 31 December 2024
19,827
Amortisation and impairment
At 1 May 2024 and 31 December 2024
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024
19,827
At 30 April 2024
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements (continued)
For the period ended 31 December 2024
7
5
Tangible fixed assets
Plant and machinery etc
£
Cost
At 1 May 2024 and 31 December 2024
179,251
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 May 2024 and 31 December 2024
176,152
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024
3,099
At 30 April 2024
3,099
6
Debtors
31 December
30 April
2024
2024
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Trade debtors
1,031,000
621,515
Corporation tax recoverable
283,538
Amounts owed by group undertakings
6,995,325
6,522,870
Other debtors
451,059
856,206
8,760,922
8,000,591
31 December
30 April
2024
2024
Amounts falling due after more than one year:
£
£
Deferred tax asset
6,589
Total debtors
8,767,511
8,000,591
Amounts owed by group undertakings are unsecured, interest free and there are no set terms of repayment.
Other debtors primarily consist of prepayments amounting to £325,400 (30 April 2024: £671,602). These prepayments represent costs incurred in advance for events, which will be expensed when the corresponding events take place.
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements (continued)
For the period ended 31 December 2024
8
7
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
31 December
30 April
2024
2024
£
£
Trade creditors
14,253
182,368
Amounts owed to group undertakings
146,663
Corporation tax
91,242
Other taxation and social security
257,804
187,074
Other creditors
805,248
1,187,109
1,223,968
1,647,793
Other creditors primarily consist of deferred income amounting to £584,046 (30 April 2024: £920,650). This deferred income represents payments received for events which have not yet taken place, this income will be recognised when the corresponding events take place.
8
Provisions for liabilities
31 December
30 April
2024
2024
£
£
Deferred tax liabilities
9
775
-
775
9
Deferred taxation
Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset where the company has a legally enforceable right to do so. The following is the analysis of the deferred tax balances (after offset) for financial reporting purposes:
Liabilities
Liabilities
Assets
Assets
31 December
30 April
31 December
30 April
2024
2024
2024
2024
Balances:
£
£
£
£
Accelerated capital allowances
-
775
(775)
-
Short term timing differences
-
-
7,364
-
-
775
6,589
-
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements (continued)
For the period ended 31 December 2024
9
Deferred taxation (continued)
9
2024
Movements in the period:
£
Liability at 1 May 2024
775
Credit to profit or loss
(7,364)
Asset at 31 December 2024
(6,589)
The deferred tax asset set out above is expected to reverse within 12 months and relates to the utilisation of tax losses against future expected profits of the same period.
The deferred tax balance at 31 December 2024 has been calculated based on the tax rate of 25%, based on rates that have been substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.
10
Called up share capital
31 December
30 April
2024
2024
£
£
Ordinary share capital
Issued and fully paid
2 Ordinary shares of £1 each
2
2
Each ordinary share is entitled to one vote in any circumstances.
11
Audit report information
As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements, the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006:
The auditor's report was unqualified.
Senior Statutory Auditor:
Peter Smithson
Statutory Auditors:
BDO LLP
Date of audit report:
11 September 2025
12
Operating lease commitments
Lessee
At the reporting end date the company had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, as follows:
31 December
30 April
2024
2024
£
£
27,466
38,063
Marketing In Partnership Limited
Notes to the financial statements (continued)
For the period ended 31 December 2024
10
13
Related party transactions
The Company has taken advantage of the exemption available under paragraph 33.1A of the Financial Reporting Standard 102 not to disclose transactions with other wholly owned members of the Group.
14
Parent company
The immediate parent undertaking is Arc Media Holdings Limited. The ultimate parent company is Arc Investco Limited. This is the only group of which the company is a member for which group financial statements are prepared. Copies of the group financial statements are available from the company's registered office at New London House, 172 Drury Lane, London, England, WC2B 5QR.
In the opinion of the directors, there is no ultimate controlling party.
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