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Registration number: 06211244

Maistro UK Limited

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

 

Maistro UK Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Strategic Report

2 to 3

Director's Report

4 to 5

Statement of Director's Responsibilities

6

Independent Auditor's Report

7 to 9

Profit and Loss Account

10

Balance Sheet

11

Statement of Changes in Equity

12

Notes to the Financial Statements

13 to 21

 

Maistro UK Limited

Company Information

Director

Mr D J Rumble

Company secretary

Mr R Croft

Registered office

Rowan House North
1 The Professional Quarter
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG

Auditors

CBSL Accountants Limited
Chartered Accountants & Statutory Auditors
Rowan House North
1 The Professional Quarter
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG

 

Maistro UK Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

The director presents his strategic report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024. During this period, the company has maintained its focus on delivering high-quality sourcing and supplier managed services using our platform-based AI-enabled digital procurement services.

Business review

Over the past year, the company has achieved stability in its core trading activities following a realignment of key revenue sources initiated in the previous year. This has been supported by strengthened relationships with significant clients, which we believe will underpin future growth opportunities.

Our strategy to leverage our core platform capabilities in combination with our specialist managed services is more closely aligned with market requirements. Our continued focus on category management in GBS (Global Business Services) procurement through data, technology and artificial intelligence to overcome client sourcing challenges, continues to provide the business with a highly differentiated proposition.

This year we complemented our GBS offering by expanding platform-led managed services and diversifying revenues through enhanced buy-build-operate capabilities in Technology Services. Across our portfolio we will continue to focus on speed to value, repeatability, and measurable outcomes for clients.

Performance focus

The company focuses on both pre and post award procurement and sourcing, combining technology with category expertise to deliver value across the contract lifecycle. Our managed services blend human expertise with platform capabilities in automation, analytics, and AI to challenge traditional outsourcing models. Our continued investment in automated workflows, AI integration, and enhanced analytics provides clients with stronger spend management, service delivery controls, and clearer visibility of performance across complex supply chains and ecosystems.

Alongside our financial performance we consider the following key strategic measures:
- New client wins/expansions – % uplift, yoy
- Multi-year managed services contracts – % uplift, yoy
- Pipeline cover improvement – % uplift, yoy
- Average sales cycle reduction – % improvement, yoy
- Revenue per employee - % uplift, yoy

Strategic outlook

Looking ahead, we will build on the progress of 2024 by scaling our managed services activities in core categories and adjacent technology services as clients continue to seek support for smarter sourcing solutions to address ever more complex requirements.

In parallel we will continue to invest in data integrity, platform resilience, and embedding responsible AI focused on accuracy and relevance. The increased usage of our platform that we have seen through 2024 and expect to grow in 2025 enriches our dataset, improving supplier selection and post-award performance which positions us strongly as buyers seek faster time-to-value, cost certainty, and post-award outcomes.

We will continue to differentiate with whole-of-market supplier reach in our chosen categories, delivering value and certainty to clients, mitigating risks around sourcing cycles, and ensuring cost discipline.
 

 

Maistro UK Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Closing

Thank you to our clients, partners, and colleagues for a year of disciplined execution and meaningful progress. We enter 2025 with a stronger model, a clearer proposition, and a focused plan to grow sustainably.

Approved and authorised by the director on 26 September 2025
 


Mr D J Rumble
Director

 

Maistro UK Limited

Director's Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

The director presents his report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Directors of the company

The directors who held office during the year were as follows:

Mr D J Rumble

Mr C M Livings (ceased 31 March 2024)

Mr P M Shuldham-Legh (ceased 29 February 2024)

Principal activity

The principal activity of the company is that it owns and operates online propretary marketplaces, which enable businesses to buy, sell and pay for business services, including marketing, design, advertising and technology services.

Going concern

The company’s financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes that the company will be able to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.

During 2024, the Directors continued their Business Strategy of building the company’s capabilities and changing its base operating model to create a sustainable business financially, thereby laying the foundations for a return to profitability in 2025, and continue to grow and expand its technology platform.

To fund the strategy, the company raised further funds during 2024 of £0.45m, through a secured debt instrument.

Importantly, in the first six months of 2025, the company has become cash generative.

Furthermore, the Directors have prepared financial forecasts for the 18 months to 31 December 2026, which show that the company continues to be cash generative.

As a result the Directors are confident that the company has adequate resources to continue to operate for at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements.

The Directors have therefore continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Directors’ Report and Financial Statements.

Disclosure of information to the auditors

The director has taken 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. The director confirms that there is no relevant information that he knows of and of which he knows the auditors are unaware.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Director's Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

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 and authorised by the director on 26 September 2025
 


Mr D J Rumble
Director

 

Maistro UK Limited

Statement of Director's Responsibilities

The director acknowledges his responsibilities for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the director to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the director has 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 director must not approve the financial statements unless he is 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 director is required to:

select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;

make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The director is 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 him to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. He is 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.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Maistro UK Limited

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Maistro UK Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2024, which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity, 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 FRS 102 Section 1A '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 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 director's 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 original financial statements were 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. 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 there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. 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.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Maistro UK Limited

Opinion on other matter 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 Director's Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

the Director's Report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Director's Report.

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; or

the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies’ exemptions in preparing the directors’ report and from the requirement to prepare a strategic report.

Responsibilities of the director

As explained more fully in the Statement of Director's Responsibilities [set out on page 6], the director is 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 director determines 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 director is 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 director either intends to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor 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 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.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Maistro UK Limited

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 that are applicable to this company and its sector and determined that the most significant are those relating to the reporting framework and the relevant UK tax legislation.

We understood how the company is complying with those frameworks by making enquiries of management and those responsible for legal and compliance procedures.

As an audit engagement team, we assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement including how fraud might occur and considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the company for fraud. We considered the controls that the company has established to address the risks identified to prevent, deter and detect fraud; and how the management and directors monitor those controls.

Based on our understanding we designed our audit procedures to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations. Those procedures involved: - enquiries of management and those charged with governance; - journal entry testing; - assessing whether judgements in making accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias; and – evaluating the business rationale of any significant transactions that are unusual or outside the normal course of business.

Where the risk was considered to be higher, we performed audit procedures to address each identified fraud risk or other risk of material misstatement. These procedures included revenue recognition and testing manual journals and were designed to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements were free from fraud or error.

We remained alert to any indications of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations throughout the audit.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: 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 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 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 members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.





Louise Osselton FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of CBSL Accountants Limited, Statutory Auditor

Rowan House North
1 The Professional Quarter
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG

26 September 2025

 

Maistro UK Limited

Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Note

2024
£

2023
£

Turnover

 

1,730,755

2,602,127

Cost of sales

 

(678,763)

(1,132,388)

Gross profit

 

1,051,992

1,469,739

Administrative expenses

 

(2,359,315)

(2,671,912)

Operating loss

 

(1,307,323)

(1,202,173)

Other interest receivable and similar income

 

8,827

20

Interest payable and similar expenses

 

-

(11,013)

   

8,827

(10,993)

Loss before tax

4

(1,298,496)

(1,213,166)

Tax on loss

 

128,262

245,483

Loss for the financial year

 

(1,170,234)

(967,683)

The above results were derived from continuing operations.

The company has no recognised gains or losses for the year other than the results above.

 

Maistro UK Limited

(Registration number: 06211244)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2024

Note

2024
£

2023
£

Fixed assets

 

Intangible assets

5

930,207

1,728,796

Investments

6

997

997

 

931,204

1,729,793

Current assets

 

Debtors

7

167,486

277,597

Cash at bank and in hand

 

296,066

236,740

 

463,552

514,337

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

8

(676,196)

(601,082)

Net current liabilities

 

(212,644)

(86,745)

Total assets less current liabilities

 

718,560

1,643,048

Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year

8

(21,948,262)

(21,692,516)

Provisions for liabilities

-

(10,000)

Net liabilities

 

(21,229,702)

(20,059,468)

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

9

19,619

19,619

Share premium reserve

15,136,108

15,136,108

Other reserves

66,385

66,385

Retained earnings

(36,451,814)

(35,281,580)

Shareholders' deficit

 

(21,229,702)

(20,059,468)

These financial statements have 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 and authorised by the director on 26 September 2025
 


Mr D J Rumble
Director

 

Maistro UK Limited

Statement of Changes in Equity for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Share capital
£

Share premium
£

Other reserves
£

Retained earnings
£

Total
£

At 1 January 2024

19,619

15,136,108

66,385

(35,281,580)

(20,059,468)

Loss for the year

-

-

-

(1,170,234)

(1,170,234)

At 31 December 2024

19,619

15,136,108

66,385

(36,451,814)

(21,229,702)

Share capital
£

Share premium
£

Other reserves
£

Retained earnings
£

Total
£

At 1 January 2023

19,619

15,136,108

66,385

(34,313,897)

(19,091,785)

Loss for the year

-

-

-

(967,683)

(967,683)

At 31 December 2023

19,619

15,136,108

66,385

(35,281,580)

(20,059,468)

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

1

General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England & Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
Rowan House North
1 The Professional Quarter
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the director on 26 September 2025.

2

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 smaller entities - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006 (as applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime).

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.

Summary of disclosure exemptions

The company has taken advantage of the following disclosure exemptions in preparing these financial statements, as permitted by the FRS 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland":
- the requirements of Section 7 Statement of Cash Flows;
- the requirements of Section 3 Financial Statement Presentation paragraph 3.17(d).

Name of parent of group

These financial statements are consolidated in the financial statements of Maistro Limited.

The financial statements of Maistro Limited may be obtained from Companies House.

Group accounts not prepared

The company is a parent company that is also a subsidiary included in the consolidated financial statements of a larger group by a parent undertaking established under the law of any part of the United Kingdom and is therefore exempt from the requirement to prepare consolidated financial statements under section 400 of the Companies Act.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Going concern

The company’s financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes that the company will be able to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.

During 2024, the Directors continued their Business Strategy of building the company’s capabilities and changing its base operating model to create a sustainable business financially, thereby laying the foundations for a return to profitability in 2025, and continue to grow and expand its technology platform.

To fund the strategy, the company raised further funds during 2024 of £0.45m, through a secured debt instrument.

Importantly, in the first six months of 2025, the company has become cash generative.

Furthermore, the Directors have prepared financial forecasts for the 18 months to 31 December 2026, which show that the company continues to be cash generative.

As a result the Directors are confident that the company has adequate resources to continue to operate for at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements.

The Directors have therefore continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Directors’ Report and Financial Statements.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for the sale of goods and provision of services in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. Turnover is shown net of sales/value added tax, returns, rebates and discounts.

The company recognises revenue from a contract to provide services when:
- the amount of revenue can be reliably measured;
- it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity;
- the stage of completion of the contract at the end of the reporting period can be measured reliably; and
- the costs incurred and the costs to complete the contract can be measured reliably.

Foreign currency transactions and balances

Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recorded at the functional currency rate prevailing at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated into the respective functional currency of the entity at the rates prevailing on the reporting period date. Non-monetary items carried at fair value that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rate on the date when the fair value is re-measured.

Non-monetary items measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are not retranslated.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, except that a change attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between taxable profits and profits reported in the financial statements.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised when it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

R&D credits are recognised with the tax charge/credit in the Financial Statements when amounts due can be reliably estimated and there is sufficient certainty of receipt.

Intangible assets

Intangible assets are initially recognised at cost. After recognition, under the cost model, intangible assets are measured at cost less any accumulated amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses.

At each reporting date the company assesses whether there is any indication of impairment. If such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is determined which is the higher of its fair value less costs to sell and its value in use. An impairment loss is recognised where the carrying amount exceeds the recoverable amount.

All intangible assets are considered to have a finite useful life. If a reliable estimate of the useful life cannot be made, the useful life shall not exceed ten years.

Amortisation

Amortisation is provided on intangible assets so as to write off the cost, less any estimated residual value, over their useful life as follows:

Asset class

Amortisation method and rate

Development expenditure

straight line over four years

Investments

Investments in equity shares which are publicly traded or where the fair value can be measured reliably are initially measured at fair value, with changes in fair value recognised in profit or loss. Investments in equity shares which are not publicly traded and where fair value cannot be measured reliably are measured at cost less impairment.


Interest income on debt securities, where applicable, is recognised in income using the effective interest method. Dividends on equity securities are recognised in income when receivable.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

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.

Trade debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for merchandise sold or services performed 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.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable 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.

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the profit and loss account over the period of the relevant borrowing.

Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.

Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the company has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Provisions

Provisions are recognised when the company has an obligation at the reporting date as a result of a past event, it is probable that the company will be required to settle that obligation and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Defined contribution pension obligation

A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the company has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as employee benefit expense when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

3

Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including the director) during the year, was 9 (2023 - 23).

4

Loss before tax

Arrived at after charging/(crediting)

2024
£

2023
£

Depreciation expense

-

17,563

Amortisation expense

820,627

735,370

5

Intangible assets

Development expenditure
 £

Computer software
 £

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 January 2024

8,267,524

209,815

8,477,339

Additions internally developed

22,038

-

22,038

At 31 December 2024

8,289,562

209,815

8,499,377

Amortisation

At 1 January 2024

6,538,728

209,815

6,748,543

Amortisation charge

820,627

-

820,627

At 31 December 2024

7,359,355

209,815

7,569,170

Carrying amount

At 31 December 2024

930,207

-

930,207

At 31 December 2023

1,728,796

-

1,728,796

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

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Investments

2024
£

2023
£

Investments in subsidiaries

997

997

Subsidiaries

£

Cost or valuation

At 1 January 2024

997

At 31 December 2024

997

Carrying amount

At 31 December 2024

997

At 31 December 2023

997

Details of undertakings

Details of the investments (including principal place of business of unincorporated entities) in which the company holds 20% or more of the nominal value of any class of share capital are as follows:

Undertaking

Registered office

Holding

Proportion of voting rights and shares held

2024

2023

Subsidiary undertakings

Maistro Inc

12021 Orange St
STE 600
One Commerce Centre
Wilminton
DE 19801

USA

Ordinary

100%

100%

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Debtors

Current

Note

2024
£

2023
£

Trade debtors

 

153,943

228,663

Amounts owed by related parties

13

-

16,279

Prepayments

 

13,543

32,655

   

167,486

277,597

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

8

Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Note

2024
£

2023
£

Due within one year

 

Loans and borrowings

12

6,000

7,000

Trade creditors

 

126,978

174,456

Amounts owed to group undertakings and undertakings in which the company has a participating interest

13

105,717

86,251

Taxation and social security

 

34,669

75,094

Accruals and deferred income

 

395,648

240,947

Other creditors

 

7,184

17,334

 

676,196

601,082

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

Note

2024
£

2023
£

Due after one year

 

Loans and borrowings

12

28,028

33,032

Other non-current financial liabilities

 

21,920,234

21,659,484

 

21,948,262

21,692,516

Other non-current financial liabilities relate to amounts owed to the parent company.

9

Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

2024

2023

No.

£

No.

£

Ordinary shares of £0.001 each

15,204,520

15,205

15,204,520

15,205

Ordinary 'A' shares of £0.001 each

4,414,230

4,414

4,414,230

4,414

19,618,750

19,619

19,618,750

19,619

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

10

Reserves

Share premium - The amount of ordinary capital contributed in excess of the nominal value of each Ordinary share.
Share-based payment reserve - Reserve for share-based payments on options granted during the current or prior period, not yet exercised.
Profit and loss reserve - All other net gains and losses and transactions with owners not recognised elsewhere.
Capital contribution reserve - Amounts invested in the company by its parent entity not in the form of Ordinary shares.

11

Share-based payments

The company’s parent, Maistro Limited, has an approved EMI scheme in place to issue share options to employees of the company. During the year, no options over the shares of the company’s parent, Maistro Limited, were issued. During the year 200,654 options lapsed or were surrendered.

During the year, Maistro Limited undertook a share consolidation to convert its existing £1 Ordinary shares into £300 Ordinary shares. Following the consolidation and at the year end, 362 share options were in existence. The options vest provided the employees remain in the service of Maistro UK Limited for a period of between 2 and 4 years from the grant date but only on condition of an exit event arising. No charge has
been recognised in respect of these options (2023 - £nil) as vesting is contingent on a sale.

12

Loans and borrowings

Non-current loans and borrowings

2024
£

2023
£

Bank borrowings

28,028

33,032

Current loans and borrowings

2024
£

2023
£

Bank borrowings

6,000

7,000

13

Related party transactions

The company is exempt under FRS102 33.1A from the requirement to disclose transactions with group companies that are wholly owned.

During the year the company made purchases of £139,645 (2023 - £92,946) from companies of which the director holds significant influence. At 31 December 2024 a balance of £14,594 (2023 - £9,702) was included in trade creditors in respect of purchases made.

 

Maistro UK Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

14

Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The company's immediate parent is Maistro Limited, incorporated in England & Wales.

 The most senior parent entity producing publicly available financial statements is Maistro Limited.