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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The directors present their company strategic report accompanying the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
Performance for the year ended 31 December 2024 was acceptable in the face of continued market uncertainty and disruption caused by the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Cost-of-Living challenges, political upheaval in the UK and internationally, and emergence of new development constraints pertaining to the Building Safety Act. The Directors continued to balance the need for investment in our people with prudent risk management. Our record of year-on-year revenue growth was maintained. Our margin reduced both proportionally and in absolute terms due to the impacts of increased costs, including investment in our next business plan, succession planning, and sector & location diversification associated with future business resilience and opportunity. This stemmed from performance in the last third of the year where there was increased inertia in some of our target markets. We remained able to make significant progress in support of our mission of "Driving Industry Change. Delivering Better Outcomes. Creating Future Places" with our work continuing as masterplan project and cost managers for the Earls Court Development Company on their masterplan covering 40 acres of West London, as well as other major regeneration projects in Brent Cross, Wandsworth, Reading and Cambridge. Cast has further reinforced its position as an expert at the forefront of industry change and launched “Verified by Cast”, which supports specifiers to remove guesswork from their supplier searches and confidently build their supply chains.
The key business risk and uncertainty affecting the company relates to the impact of regional conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East coupled with UK political volatility, and regulatory change which all have had implications on business confidence in property investment and development, the macro-economic environment and construction viability. The directors remain focused on prudent financial risk management. The combined impact of funding an increased tax burden, inflation, hardening payment terms and the need to invest in our strategy further reinforces the need to focus on cash. The Directors have reviewed the shape of the business and made prudent provisions in the 2024 accounts to ensure the business enters 2025 and the final year of our current business plan with stability and a platform for growth.
Given the straightforward nature of the business the directors are of the opinion that analysis using KPl's is not necessary for an understanding of the development, performance or position of the business.
This report was approved by the board on 30 September 2025 and signed on its behalf.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
The directors are responsible for preparing the Strategic report, the Directors' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the Company's financial statements and then apply them consistently;
∙make judgments 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 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 to 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.
The profit for the year, after taxation, amounted to £2,214,597 (2023 - £3,318,688).
During the year dividends of £2,755,635 (2023 - £4,595,883) were paid.
The directors who served during the year were:
The company continues to trade profitably and to pursue opportunities to improve its performance and financial position.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.
After the year end Barnes Roffe LLP resigned as auditors due to the transfer of its audit business and its successor Barnes Roffe Audit Limited was appointed by the directors under s485 Companies Act 2006.
This report was approved by the board on
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CAST CONSULT LIMITED
We have audited the financial statements of Cast Consult Limited (the 'Company') for the year ended 31 December 2024, which comprise the Statement of comprehensive income, the Balance sheet, the Statement of cash flows, the Statement of changes in equity and the related notes, 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 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.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CAST CONSULT LIMITED (CONTINUED)
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.
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the 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.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CAST CONSULT LIMITED (CONTINUED)
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:
Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with law and regulations, was as follows: • The engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations; • We identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussion with directors and other management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the construction sector that the company operates in; • The specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the company, are as follows; • Companies Act 2006 • FRS102 • Health and Safety legislation • Employment legislation • ISO9001 • Tax legislation • We assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management, reviewing board minutes and relevant correspondence; and • Laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team at the planning meeting, and during the audit as any further laws and regulation were identified. The audit team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit;
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CAST CONSULT LIMITED (CONTINUED)
We assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur by:
• Making enquires of management as to where they consider there was susceptibility to fraud and their knowledge of actual suspected and alleged fraud; • Considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations; • Reviewing the financial statements and testing the disclosures against supporting documentation; • Performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected trends or anomalies; • Inspecting and testing journal entries to identify unusual or unexpected transactions; • Assessing whether judgement and assumptions made in determining significant accounting estimates, including cost accruals, were indicative of management bias; and • Investigating the rationale behind significant transactions, or transactions that are unusual or outside the company’s usual course of business. The areas that we identified as being susceptible to misstatement through fraud were: • Management bias in the estimates and judgements made; • Management override of controls; and • Posting of unusual journals or transactions. Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.
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 Auditor's 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.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF CAST CONSULT LIMITED (CONTINUED)
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditor
1st Floor
73-81 Southwark Bridge Road
London
SE1 0NQ
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 09882722
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2024
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 13 to 22 form part of these financial statements.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Cast Consult Limited is a private company limited by shares and incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office address of the company is Charles Lake House, Claire Causeway, Crossways Business Park, Dartford, Kent, DA2 6QA.
The principal activity of the company is that of real estate and construction consultancy.
2.Accounting policies
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention unless otherwise specified within these accounting policies and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006.
The following principal accounting policies have been applied:
• the amount of revenue can be measured reliably; • it is probable that the Company will receive the consideration due under the contract; • 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. If it is not possible to distinguish between the research phase and the development phase of an internal project, the expenditure is treated as if it were all incurred in the research phase only.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Depreciation is charged so as to allocate the cost of assets less their residual value over their estimated useful lives, on a combination of straight line and reducing balance bases..
Depreciation is provided on the following basis:
The assets' residual values, useful lives and depreciation methods are reviewed, and adjusted prospectively if appropriate, or if there is an indication of a significant change since the last reporting date.
Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing the proceeds with the carrying amount and are recognised in profit or loss.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Provisions are measured as the best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation, taking into account the related risks and uncertainties.
The company only enters into basic financial instrument transactions that result in the recognition of financial assets and liabilities like trade and other debtors and creditors, loans from banks and other third parties, loans to related parties and investments in ordinary shares.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Analysis of turnover by country of destination:
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
There were no factors that may affect future tax charges.
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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CAST CONSULT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. The pension charge represents contributions payable by the company to the fund and amounted to £251,800 (2023: £201,005). Contributions totaling £46,881 (2023 : £41,412) were payable to fund at the balance sheet date and are included in other creditors, amounts falling due within one year.
The company is not controlled by any one party.
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