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Registration number: 01549039

Dimbleby Partners Limited
Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements Year Ended 31 March 2025

Chartered Accountants

Dimbleby Partners Limited

Contents

Company Information | 1
Accountants' Report | 2
Balance Sheet | 3
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements | 4 to 7

Dimbleby Partners Limited

Company Information

Director | Mr Jonathan Dimbleby

Company secretary | Ms Stella Joan Keeley

Registered office | Unity Chambers 34 High East Street Dorchester Dorset DT1 1HA

Accountants | Edwards and Keeping Limited Unity Chambers 34 High East Street Dorchester Dorset DT1 1HA

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Director on the Preparation of the Unaudited Statutory Accounts of
Dimbleby Partners Limitedfor 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 Dimbleby Partners Limited for the year ended 31 March 2025 as set out on pages 3 to 7 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 Dimbleby Partners Limited, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 13 November 2024. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of Dimbleby Partners Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Dimbleby Partners 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 Dimbleby Partners Limited and its Board of Directors as a body for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Dimbleby Partners 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 Dimbleby Partners Limited. You consider that Dimbleby Partners 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 Dimbleby Partners 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.

Edwards and Keeping Limited
Unity Chambers
34 High East Street
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1HA

6 October 2025

Dimbleby Partners Limited

(Registration number: 01549039)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Tangible assets | 4 | 15,305 | 15,252
Other investments | 5 | 114,743 | 110,392
|  | 130,048 | 125,644
Current assets |  |  |
Debtors | 6 | 6,529 | 14,978
Cash at bank and in hand |  | 159,412 | 124,202
|  | 165,941 | 139,180
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 7 | (50,987) | (44,606)
Net current assets |  | 114,954 | 94,574
Net assets |  | 245,002 | 220,218
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital | 8 | 100 | 100
Profit and loss account |  | 244,902 | 220,118
Shareholders' funds |  | 245,002 | 220,218

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.

Director's 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 director acknowledges his 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 in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

These financial statements have been 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 director has not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the director on 1 October 2025

Mr Jonathan Dimbleby
Director

Dimbleby Partners Limited

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

1 | General information

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

The address of its registered office is:
Unity Chambers
34 High East Street
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1HA
England

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.

Going concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.

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.

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.

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.

Dimbleby Partners Limited

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

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
Fixtures, Fittings and Equipment | 33.33% straight line
Motor Vehicles | 20% reducing balance

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.

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.

Dividends

Dividend distribution to the company’s shareholders is recognised as a liability in the financial statements in the reporting period in which the dividends are declared.

3 | Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including the director) during the year, was 2 (2024 - 2).

Dimbleby Partners Limited

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

4 | Tangible assets

| Furniture, fittings and equipment £ | Motor vehicles £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 April 2024 | 22,429 | 35,887 | 58,316
Additions | 4,699 | - | 4,699
Disposals | (13,987) | - | (13,987)
At 31 March 2025 | 13,141 | 35,887 | 49,028
Depreciation
At 1 April 2024 | 21,876 | 21,188 | 43,064
Charge for the year | 1,593 | 2,940 | 4,533
Eliminated on disposal | (13,874) | - | (13,874)
At 31 March 2025 | 9,595 | 24,128 | 33,723
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2025 | 3,546 | 11,759 | 15,305
At 31 March 2024 | 553 | 14,699 | 15,252

5 | Fixed asset investments

| Other investments £ | Total £
Non-current investments
Cost or valuation
At 1 April 2024 | 110,392 | 110,392
Accrued interest | 4,351 | 4,351
At 31 March 2025 | 114,743 | 114,743
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2025 | 114,743 | 114,743

6 | Debtors

Current | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Trade debtors | 5,566 | 10,647
Prepayments | 888 | 2,821
Other debtors | 75 | 1,510
| 6,529 | 14,978

Dimbleby Partners Limited

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

7 | Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due within one year |  |
Taxation and social security | 17,627 | 20,360
Accruals and deferred income | 2,750 | 3,815
Other creditors | 30,610 | 20,431
| 50,987 | 44,606

8 | Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

| 2025 | 2024
| No. | £ | No. | £
A Ordinary shares of £1 each | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75
B Ordinary shares of £1 each | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25
| 100 | 100 | 100 | 100

9 | Dividends

Interim dividends paid

|  | 2025 £ |  | 2024 £
Interim dividend of £256.00 (2024 - £560.00) per each A Ordinary shares |  | 19,200 |  | 42,000
Interim dividend of £256.00 (2024 - £560.00) per each B Ordinary shares |  | 6,400 |  | 14,000
|  | 25,600 |  | 56,000