REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES

Registration number: SC502456

Simpson Farms Limited

Contents

Accountants' Report	1
Balance Sheet	2
Notes to the Financial Statements	4

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors on the Preparation of the Unaudited Statutory Accounts of
Simpson Farms Limited
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the accounts of Simpson Farms Limited for the year ended 31 March 2025 as set out on pages 2 to 11 from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at http://www.icaew.com/regulation.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Simpson Farms Limited, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 30 May 2024. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of Simpson Farms Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Simpson Farms Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Simpson Farms Limited and its Board of Directors as a body for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Simpson Farms Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory accounts that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Simpson Farms Limited. You consider that Simpson Farms Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the accounts of Simpson Farms Limited. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory accounts.

Dodd & Co Limited
Chartered Accountants
FIFTEEN Rosehill
Montgomery Way
Rosehill Estate
CARLISLE
CA1 2RW

19 August 2025

Simpson Farms Limited

(Registration number: SC502456)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

	Note	2025 £	2024 £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets	5	4,135,401	3,829,304
Current assets
Stocks		1,857,628	1,802,630
Debtors	6	552,978	448,422
		2,410,606	2,251,052
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year	7	(1,901,397)	(2,041,127)
Net current assets		509,209	209,925
Total assets less current liabilities		4,644,610	4,039,229
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year	7	(2,071,865)	(2,140,301)
Provisions for liabilities		(711,969)	(613,855)
Net assets		1,860,776	1,285,073
Capital and reserves
Allotted, called up and fully paid share capital		260,100	260,100
Profit and loss account		1,600,676	1,024,973
Total equity		1,860,776	1,285,073

Simpson Farms Limited

(Registration number: SC502456)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025 (continued)

For the financial year ending 31 March 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities:

•	The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476; and
•	The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the directors have not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 19 August 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
 

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P R D Simpson

Director

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S E Simpson

Director

Simpson Farms Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

1	General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in Scotland.

The address of its registered office is:
Culscadden Farm
Garlieston
NEWTON STEWART
DG8 8AD

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 - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006.

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.

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 when the amount of revenue can be reliably measured; it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity; and specific criteria have been met for each of the company's activities.

Government grants

Government grants such as the basic payment scheme are included in the profit and loss account when all the necessary conditions for receipt have been met.

Grants relating to revenue are recognised in the profit and loss account on a systematic basis over the periods in which the related costs are recognised for which the grant is intended to compensate.

Grants for the purpose of giving immediate financial support with no future related costs to be incurred are recognised in the profit and loss account when the grant proceeds become receivable.

Other grants
Other grants in respect of capital expenditure are credited to a deferred income account and are released to profit over the expected useful lives of the relevant assets on a basis consistent with the depreciation policy.

Simpson Farms Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)

Basic payment scheme

The amount paid in connection with the purchase of the basic payment scheme entitlement was amortised over the useful economic life of that entitlement, and has now been fully amortised.

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred 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.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.

The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class	Depreciation method and rate
Land and buildings	4% straight line
Plant and equipment	5% and 15% reducing balance
Motor vehicles	25% reducing balance
Office equipment	3 year straight line

Land and buildings relate to tenants improvements on land leased by the company from the shareholders. As the long term intention is for the farming operation to continue, it is deemed a true and fair view to depreciate the assets on a 4% straight line basis over their useful economic life, and not the duration of the lease.

Simpson Farms Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)

Trade debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for the sale of goods 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.

Stocks

Trading stock is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after due regard for obsolete and slow moving stocks. The cost of livestock represents the purchase cost plus any additional costs of rearing the animal. Net realisable value is based on selling price less anticipated selling costs. Crop stock is valued at fair value less any anticipated costs to sell.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Trade creditors 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 where due after more than one year.

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.

Simpson Farms Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)

Leases

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

Leases are classified as finance leases whenever the terms of the lease transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the lessee.

Assets held under finance leases are recognised at the lower of their fair value at inception of the lease and the present value of the minimum lease payments. These assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the useful life of the asset and the lease term. The corresponding liability to the lessor is included in the balance sheet as a finance lease obligation.

Lease payments are apportioned between finance costs in the profit and loss account and reduction of the lease obligation so as to achieve a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability.

Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Equity instruments are measured at the fair value of the cash or other resources received or receivable, net of the direct costs of issuing the equity instruments. If payment is deferred and the time value of money is material, the initial measurement is on a present value basis.

Preference shares are classified as equity when the shares are redeemable in the future at the option of the company.

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 directors) during the year, was 22 (2024 - 23).

Simpson Farms Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)

4	Intangible assets

	Basic payment scheme  £	Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 April 2024	85,791	85,791
At 31 March 2025	85,791	85,791
Amortisation
At 1 April 2024	85,791	85,791
At 31 March 2025	85,791	85,791
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2025	-	-

Simpson Farms Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)

5	Tangible assets

	Land and buildings £	Plant and equipment  £	Motor vehicles  £	Office equipment £	Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 April 2024	1,975,194	3,197,043	79,266	13,688	5,265,191
Additions	-	700,397	49,738	2,493	752,628
Disposals	-	(135,579)	(27,557)	(2,280)	(165,416)
At 31 March 2025	1,975,194	3,761,861	101,447	13,901	5,852,403
Depreciation
At 1 April 2024	355,375	1,034,044	40,280	6,188	1,435,887
Charge for the year	79,007	261,160	10,184	3,309	353,660
Eliminated on disposal	-	(50,240)	(21,018)	(1,287)	(72,545)
At 31 March 2025	434,382	1,244,964	29,446	8,210	1,717,002
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2025	1,540,812	2,516,897	72,001	5,691	4,135,401
At 31 March 2024	1,619,819	2,162,999	38,986	7,500	3,829,304

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Debtors

	2025 £	2024 £
Trade debtors	452,223	375,407
Other debtors	100,755	73,015
	552,978	448,422

Simpson Farms Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (continued)

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Creditors

	Note	2025 £	2024 £
Due within one year
Loans and borrowings	8	1,266,872	1,495,144
Trade creditors		437,620	391,101
Taxation and social security		4,830	4,094
Corporation tax liability		86,131	-
Other creditors		105,944	150,788
		1,901,397	2,041,127
Due after one year
Loans and borrowings	8	1,962,566	2,019,321
Other creditors		109,299	120,980
		2,071,865	2,140,301