REGISTERED NUMBER: 04123057 (England and Wales)

Strategic Report, Report of the Directors and

Audited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

for

Blanchard Wells Limited

Page

Company Information

1

Strategic Report

2

Report of the Directors

3

Report of the Independent Auditors

4

Statement of Income and Retained Earnings

6

Balance Sheet

7

Notes to the Financial Statements

8

DIRECTORS:

Mr M A Wells

Mr M Thomas

Mr K W Anderson

Mr N S Roper

SECRETARY:

Mrs L M Tibballs

REGISTERED OFFICE:

The Meadows

Forester Road

Soberton Heath

Southampton

Hampshire

SO32 3QG

REGISTERED NUMBER:

04123057 (England and Wales)

AUDITORS:

Alliott Wingham Limited

Kintyre House

70 High Street

Fareham

Hampshire

PO16 7BB

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

REVIEW OF BUSINESS

The principal activity of the company is that of a Civils and Structures business that stands alone in the South-Central Region as a single source contractor for all reinforced concrete and groundworks projects. The company had a healthy year battling against the effects of inflation and the results are set out within these financial statements.

The company has continued to deliver high quality projects in multiple sectors including residential, industrial, commercial and infrastructure, with the majority of its work coming from repeat business with its established clients. There has been a desire from new Main Contractors and Developers for our specialist services.

Summary of key performance indicators:

2024

2023

2022

Gross Profit

14.0%

12.6%

12.9%

Net Profit

3.0%

2.3%

0.9%

PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES

The directors are aware of the inherent risks in the construction industry and and constantly monitor the market to identify and manage potential impacts on current and future trading. This is monitored through the use of credit agencies, backed up with credit insurance to cover all projects.

The construction industry as a whole has experienced extreme volatility in labour and material prices throughout this year and the previous. A clear focus on the market rates and trends has enabled us to negotiate shorter fixed term contracts in order to limit our risk.

Liquidity risks

The company seeks to manage financial risk by ensuring sufficient liquidity is available to meet foreseeable business needs and to invest cash assets safely and, where applicable, profitably. The company finances its operations primarily from retained profits.

Credit/Commercial risks

The directors recognise the importance of risk management and have instigated procedures to ensure that credit and other financial checks of clients and prospective clients are undertaken as appropriate. The company uses the services of a credit referencing agency and also has credit insurance.

The company's principal financial assets are amounts recoverable on contracts and cash at bank. The risks associated with the former are mitigated by regular application for, and certification of, works completed under contractual agreements; cash resources are held in bank accounts with prime UK banks.

HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The company's health, safety and environmental management policy is dedicated to ensuring the prevention of work related injuries or illnesses to our employees and other persons that may arise in connection with our work activities, whilst ensuring that our environmental objectives of waste minimisation, recycling of materials and waste and carbon reduction are also achieved. The company's record is very good.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD:

Director

26 September 2025

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2024.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY

The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of structures and civil engineering.

DIVIDENDS

An interim dividend of £200 per share was paid on 31 December 2024. The directors recommend that no final dividend be paid.

The total distribution of dividends for the year ended 31 December 2024 will be £ 1,000,000 .

DIRECTORS

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from 1 January 2024 to the date of this report.

Mr M A Wells

Mr M Thomas

Mr K W Anderson

Mr N S Roper

STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES

The directors are responsible for preparing the Strategic Report, the Report of the Directors 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;

-	state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

-	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.

STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS

So far as the directors are aware, there is no relevant audit information (as defined by Section 418 of the Companies Act 2006) of which the company's auditors are unaware, and each director has taken all the steps that he ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information.

AUDITORS

The auditors, Alliott Wingham Limited, will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD:

Mr M A Wells - Director

26 September 2025

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Blanchard Wells Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings, Balance Sheet and Notes to the Financial Statements, 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, 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 profit 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 Auditors' 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 directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information in the Strategic Report and the Report of the Directors, but does not include the financial statements and our Report of the Auditors thereon.

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.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, 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 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 the audit:

-	the information given in the Strategic Report and the Report of the Directors for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

-	the Strategic Report and the Report of the Directors have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

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 Report of the Directors.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where 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.

Responsibilities of directors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page three, 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 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.

Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

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 a Report of the Auditors 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.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We gained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the company and the

industry in which it operates,and considered the risk of acts by the Company that were contrary to applicable laws and regulations, including fraud. Our audit procedures were designed at Company and significant component levels to respond to the risk, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involved deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion.

We focused on laws and regulations that could give rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements, including, but not limited to, financial reporting legislation, the Companies Act 2006 and UK tax legislation. We assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement items. Our tests included agreeing the financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation, review of board meeting minutes, enquiries with management, enquiries of external legal advisors and review of correspondence with external legal advisors.

There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and, the further removed noncompliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it.

We evaluated management’s incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements including the risk of override of controls, and determined that the principal risks were related to management bias in accounting estimates. We addressed the risk of management override of internal controls through testing journals, in particular any entries posted with unusual account combinations or posted by senior management. We evaluated whether there was evidence of bias by the Directors in accounting estimates that represented a risk of material misstatement due to fraud. We challenged assumptions and judgements made by management in their significant accounting estimates.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Auditors.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, 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 members those matters we are required to state to them in a Report of the Auditors 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 members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Mark Nolan FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)

for and on behalf of Alliott Wingham Limited

Kintyre House

70 High Street

Fareham

Hampshire

PO16 7BB

26 September 2025

TURNOVER

3

43,647,898

45,253,947

Cost of sales

37,560,156

39,554,025

GROSS PROFIT

6,087,742

5,699,922

Administrative expenses

4,772,441

4,680,770

OPERATING PROFIT

5

1,315,301

1,019,152

Interest receivable and similar income

-

1,121

PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION

1,315,301

1,020,273

Tax on profit

7

350,012

-

PROFIT FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR

965,289

1,020,273

Retained earnings at beginning of year

3,039,345

3,019,072

Dividends

8

(1,000,000

)

(1,000,000

)

RETAINED EARNINGS AT END OF YEAR

3,004,634

3,039,345

CURRENT ASSETS

Debtors

9

6,970,805

7,007,829

Cash at bank

3,764,104

4,298,401

10,734,909

11,306,230

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

10

3,681,517

4,804,462

NET CURRENT ASSETS

7,053,392

6,501,768

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES

7,053,392

6,501,768

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES

12

4,043,758

3,457,423

NET ASSETS

3,009,634

3,044,345

CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Called up share capital

13

5,000

5,000

Retained earnings

14

3,004,634

3,039,345

SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS

3,009,634

3,044,345

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 26 September 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:

Mr M A Wells - Director

1.	STATUTORY INFORMATION

Blanchard Wells Limited is a private company, limited by shares, registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.

The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£).

2.	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" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

The company has taken advantage of the following disclosure exemption in preparing these financial statements, as permitted by FRS 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland":

•

the requirements of Section 7 Statement of Cash Flows.

Significant judgements and estimates

The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported for assets and liabilities as reported at the balance sheet date and the amounts reported for revenues and expenses in the year. There were no significant judgements or estimations recognised in these financial statements.

In preparing these financial statements, the directors have made the following judgements:

- Determine whether leases entered into either as a lessor or a lessee are operating lease or finance leases. These decisions depend on an assessment of whether the risks and regards of ownership have been transferred from the lessor to the lessee on a lease by lease basis

-Determine whether there are indicators of impairment of tangible assets. Factors taken into consideration in reaching component of a larger cash-generating unit, the viability and expected future performance unit.

-Determine the profit on long term contracts. The profit included is calculated on a prudent basis to reflect the proportion of the work carried out at the year end, by recording revenue and related costs as contract activity progresses. Revenue is calculated as that proportion of total contract value which costs incurred to date bear to total expected costs for that contract. Revenues derived from variations on contracts are recognised only when they have been accepted by the customer. Full provision is made for losses on all contracts in the year in which they are first overseen.

Turnover

Turnover is recognised at the fair value of consideration received or receivable for goods and services provided in the normal course of business and is shown net of VAT and other sales related taxes. The fair value takes into account trade discounts and settlement discounts. On contracts, turnover is recognised by reference to the value of work undertaken and the overall stage of completion.

Disputed value and Retentions are not recognised until they are paid.

Turnover is recognised only on sums paid for work completed within the year.

Financial instruments

Financial instruments are classified and accounted for, according to the substance of the contractual arrangement, as either financial assets, financial liabilities or equity instruments. 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 assets

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Basic financial liabilities

Basic financial liabilities, including trade and other creditors are initially recognised at transaction price. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

Taxation

Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income, 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.

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.

Hire purchase and leasing commitments

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate.

Going concern

the directors have taken consideration of the impact of COVID-19 on the business and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The directors note that the company is trading adequately and has sufficient working capital and other finance available to continue trading for a period of not less than 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements. As such, the directors believe that there are no significant uncertainties in their assessment of whether the business is a going concern and therefore have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis.

3.

TURNOVER

The turnover is attributable to the one principal activity of the company.

The directors believe there is only one material income stream from contracting services £43,642,897 in 2024 (£45,253,947 in 2023). All income is earned in the UK.

4.	EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Wages and salaries

5,239,345

5,110,110

Social security costs

549,589

544,631

Other pension costs

132,897

174,909

5,921,831

5,829,650

The average number of employees during the year was as follows:

31.12.24

31.12.23

Direct Staff

78

79

Admin Staff

41

43

119

122

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Directors' remuneration

483,850

515,146

Information regarding the highest paid director is as follows:

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Emoluments etc

178,447

220,637

5.	OPERATING PROFIT

The operating profit is stated after charging:

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Other operating leases

63,854

84,500

6.	AUDITORS' REMUNERATION

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Fees payable to the company's auditors and their associates for the audit of the company's financial statements

23,500

22,000

Total audit fees

23,500

22,000

7.

TAXATION

Analysis of the tax charge

The tax charge on the profit for the year was as follows:

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Current tax:

UK corporation tax

350,012

-

Tax on profit

350,012

-

Reconciliation of total tax charge included in profit and loss

The tax assessed for the year is higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK. The difference is explained below:

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Profit before tax

1,315,301

1,020,273

Profit multiplied by the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK of 25% (2023 - 25%)

328,825

255,068

Effects of:

Expenses not deductible for tax purposes

17,311

24,100

Utilisation of tax losses

-

(279,168

)

Adjustments to tax charge in respect of previous periods

3,876

-

Total tax charge

350,012

-

8.

DIVIDENDS

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Ordinary shares of 1 each

Interim

1,000,000

1,000,000

9.

DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Trade debtors

4,139,254

3,081,459

Amounts owed by group undertakings

2,519,213

2,896,910

Other debtors

22,467

671,993

VAT

289,871

357,467

6,970,805

7,007,829

10.

CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Trade creditors

3,005,238

4,435,039

Tax

346,137

-

Social security and other taxes

213,217

236,964

Other creditors

111,636

132,459

Directors' current accounts

5,289

-

3,681,517

4,804,462

11.	LEASING AGREEMENTS

Minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases fall due as follows:

31.12.24

31.12.23

£

£

Within one year

84,500

84,500

Between one and five years

262,143

332,205

In more than five years

-

14,438

346,643

431,143

12.	PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES

Risk Provision

Other Provision

Total

£

£

£

At 1 January 2024

1,150,000

2,307,423

3,457,423

Additional Provision in year

1,150,000

2,893,757

4,043,757

Reduced Provision in year

(1,150,000

)

(2,307,423

)

(3,457,423

)

At 31 December 2024

1,150,000

2,893,757

4,043,757

13.	CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:

Number:

Class:

Nominal

31.12.24

31.12.23

value:

£

£

5,000

Ordinary

1

5,000

5,000

The ordinary shares shall be non redeemable but shall hold full rights in respect of voting, and shall entitle the holder to full participation in respect of equity and in the event of winding up the company, the shares may be considered by the directors when considering dividends from time to time.

14.

RESERVES

Retained

earnings

£

At 1 January 2024

3,039,345

Profit for the year

965,289

Dividends

(1,000,000

)

At 31 December 2024

3,004,634

15.	RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

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.

The company rents property from the M A Wells' Self Invested Pension Scheme for £62,000 (2023: £62,000 of which Mr M A Wells allocation of this is £31,000)

A related party is receiving remuneration from the company totalling £40,621 (2023: £42,693).

16.	ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

As at the year end the ultimate parent company was Taine Holdings Limited which is incorporated in England & Wales.

The smallest and largest undertaking for which the company is a member and for which group financial statements are prepared is Taine Holdings Limited.

The ultimate controlling party is Mr M A Wells.