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REGISTERED NUMBER: 05295092 (England and Wales)

ABRIDGED UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

FOR

T APPLETON & SON LIMITED

| T APPLETON & SON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 05295092) |

CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

Page |

| Company Information | 1 |

| Abridged Balance Sheet | 2 |

| Notes to the Financial Statements | 4 |

| Chartered Certified Accountants' Report | 7 |

| T APPLETON & SON LIMITED |

COMPANY INFORMATION

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

| DIRECTORS: | Mr A E Sterne

| Mrs I A Sterne

| REGISTERED OFFICE: | 6 Market Place East

| Ripon

| North Yorkshire

| HG4 1BP

| REGISTERED NUMBER: | 05295092 (England and Wales)

| ACCOUNTANTS: | G L Barker & Co LLP

| Chartered Certified Accountants

| 49 Austhorpe Road

| Cross Gates

| Leeds

| LS15 8BA

| T APPLETON & SON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 05295092) |

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET

31 MARCH 2025

| 31.3.25 | 31.3.24 |

| Notes | £ | £ | £ | £ |

FIXED ASSETS

Tangible assets | 4 | 1,007,448 |  | 943,325 |  |

CURRENT ASSETS

Stocks | 78,354 |  | 67,678 |  |

Debtors | 58,350 |  | 70,422 |  |

Cash at bank and in hand | 51,878 |  | 137,000 |  |

188,582 |  | 275,100 |  |

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year | 282,152 |  | 302,947 |  |

NET CURRENT LIABILITIES | (93,570 | ) | (27,847 | ) |

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES | 913,878 |  | 915,478 |  |

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due after more than one year | 149,482 |  | 189,022 |  |

NET ASSETS | 764,396 |  | 726,456 |  |

CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Called up share capital | 100 |  | 100 |  |

Retained earnings | 764,296 |  | 726,356 |  |

SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS | 764,396 |  | 726,456 |  |

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2025.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:

(a) | ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and

(b) | preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.

| T APPLETON & SON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 05295092) |

ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET - continued

31 MARCH 2025

The financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

All the members have consented to the preparation of an abridged Balance Sheet for the year ended 31 March 2025 in accordance with Section 444(2A) of the Companies Act 2006.

In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Profit & Loss Account has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 4 November 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:

Mr A E Sterne - Director

Mrs I A Sterne - Director

| T APPLETON & SON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 05295092) |

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION

| T Appleton & Son 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" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

| Turnover

| Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes.

| Tangible fixed assets

| Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life or, if held under a finance lease, over the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

| Freehold property | - | in accordance with the property

| Plant and machinery | - | 5% on cost

| Fixtures and fittings | - | 10% on cost

| Motor vehicles | - | 20% on cost

| Stocks

| Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items.

| Hire purchase and leasing commitments

| Assets obtained under hire purchase contracts or finance leases are capitalised in the balance sheet. Those held under hire purchase contracts are depreciated over their estimated useful lives. Those held under finance leases are depreciated over their estimated useful lives or the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

| The interest element of these obligations is charged to profit or loss over the relevant period. The capital element of the future payments is treated as a liability.

| 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.

3. | EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

| The average number of employees during the year was 38 (2024 - 32 ) .

| T APPLETON & SON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 05295092) |

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

4. | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

| Totals

£ |

| COST

| At 1 April 2024 | 1,366,353 |  |

| Additions | 135,756 |  |

| Disposals | (56,000 | ) |

| At 31 March 2025 | 1,446,109 |  |

| DEPRECIATION

| At 1 April 2024 | 423,028 |  |

| Charge for year | 60,433 |  |

| Eliminated on disposal | (44,800 | ) |

| At 31 March 2025 | 438,661 |  |

| NET BOOK VALUE

| At 31 March 2025 | 1,007,448 |  |

| At 31 March 2024 | 943,325 |  |

| Fixed assets, included in the above, which are held under hire purchase contracts are as follows:

| Totals

£ |

| COST

| At 1 April 2024 | 56,000 |  |

| Disposals | (56,000 | ) |

| At 31 March 2025 | - |  |

| DEPRECIATION

| At 1 April 2024 | 44,800 |  |

| Eliminated on disposal | (44,800 | ) |

| At 31 March 2025 | - |  |

| NET BOOK VALUE

| At 31 March 2025 | - |  |

| At 31 March 2024 | 11,200 |  |

| T APPLETON & SON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 05295092) |

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

5. | DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES

| The following advances and credits to directors subsisted during the years ended 31 March 2025 and 31 March 2024:

| 31.3.25 |  | 31.3.24

£ | £ |

| Mr A E Sterne and Mrs I A Sterne

| Balance outstanding at start of year | 39,117 |  | 61,008 |  |

| Amounts repaid | (258 | ) | (21,891 | ) |

| Amounts written off | - |  | - |  |

| Amounts waived | - |  | - |  |

| Balance outstanding at end of year | 38,859 |  | 39,117 |  |

| Interest is charged on the overdrawn directors loan account at HMRC agreed rates.

CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS' REPORT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ON THE UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF

T APPLETON & SON LIMITED

The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors in respect of the company's annual unaudited financial statements. In accordance with the Companies Act 2006, the company is only required to file a Balance Sheet. Readers are cautioned that the Income Statement and certain other primary statements and the Report of the Directors are not required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies.

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of T Appleton & Son Limited for the year ended 31 March 2025 which comprise the Profit & Loss Account, Abridged Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at accaglobal.com/rulebook.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of T Appleton & Son Limited, as a body, in accordance with our terms of engagement. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of T Appleton & Son Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of T Appleton & Son Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with the requirements of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants as detailed at

https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/technical-activities/technical-resources-

search/2009/october/factsheet-163-audit-exempt-companies.html.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that T Appleton & Son Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of T Appleton & Son Limited. You consider that T Appleton & Son 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 financial statements of T Appleton & Son 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 financial statements.

G L Barker & Co LLP

Chartered Certified Accountants

49 Austhorpe Road

Cross Gates

Leeds

LS15 8BA

4 November 2025