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Registration number: 05110576

Aspirations Care Limited
Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Aspirations Care Limited

Contents

Company Information | 1
Strategic Report | 2
Directors' Report | 3 to 4
Statement of Directors' Responsibilities | 5
Independent Auditor's Report | 6 to 8
Profit and Loss Account | 9
Balance Sheet | 10
Statement of Changes in Equity | 11
Notes to the Financial Statements | 12 to 20

Aspirations Care Limited

Company Information

Directors | C I Cameron M C G Melvin J Wilson-Kilgour

Registered office | Corinium House Barnwood Point Business Park Corinium Avenue Gloucester GL4 3HX

Bankers | Clydesdale Bank 40 St Vincent Place Glasgow G1 2HL

Auditors | Menzies LLP Chartered Accountants & Statutory Auditor 4th Floor, 95 Gresham Street London EC2V 7AB

Aspirations Care Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

The directors present their strategic report for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Principal activity

The principal activity of the company is that of the provision of supported living services.

Fair review of the business

This year shows significant progress from the previous year as the company continues to grow its high acuity offering, generating a 12% increase in turnover, and improve its operational metrics. The results for the year, which are set out in the profit and loss account, show turnover of £33,587,605 (2024 - £30,094,048) and an operating profit before exceptional items of £2,057,654 (2024 - £403,299). At 31 March 2025, the company had net assets of £4,443,628 (2024 - £2,688,708).

Given the nature of the business, the company's directors are of the opinion that key performance indicators are important. The company uses a number of indicators to monitor and improve the development, performance and the position of the business. Indicators are reviewed and altered to meet changes in both the internal and external environments. The directors analysis using key performance indicators is included within the business review above.

Principal risks and uncertainties

The management of the business and the execution of the strategy of the group to which the company belongs are subject to a number of risks. The key business risks and uncertainties affecting the group are considered to relate to the continued provision of adequate government funding and the ongoing compliance with current and future legislation affecting the sector.

Approved by the Board on 12 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

C I Cameron
Director

Aspirations Care Limited

Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Directors of the company

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

C I Cameron

M C G Melvin (appointed 30 May 2024)

J Wilson-Kilgour

C N Butcher (resigned 5 April 2024)

L A Davies (resigned 10 July 2024)

Financial instruments

Objectives and policies

The board constantly monitors the group's trading results and revises projections as appropriate to ensure that the company can meet its future obligations as they fall due.

Price risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and cash flow risk

The group to which the company belongs is exposed to the usual credit and cash flow risks associated with selling on credit and manages this through credit control procedures.

Going concern

The directors consider that, having reviewed both the funding arrangements for the group and the company and profit and cash flow forecasts for the next 12 months, that the company has sufficient resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.

Employment of disabled persons

The company’s policy is to consider the recruitment of disabled workers for those vacancies that they are able to fill. All necessary assistance with initial training courses is given. Once employed, a career plan is developed so as to ensure suitable opportunities for each disabled person. Arrangements are made, wherever possible, for retraining employees who become disabled, to enable them to perform work identified as appropriate to their aptitudes and abilities.

Employee involvement

The company encourages the involvement of employees in its management through regular departmental meetings.

Future developments

The external environment is expected to remain competitive going forward. However the directors remain confident that the group to which the company belongs to will improve its current level of performance in the future and will continue to trade as a going concern. The company has a number of new high acuity sites that are planned to be opened in the next 12-18 months which will significantly improve financial performance.

Disclosure of information to the auditors

Each director has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information. The directors confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditors are unaware.

Reappointment of auditors

In accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006, a resolution for the re-appointment of Menzies LLP as auditors of the company is to be proposed at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

Aspirations Care Limited

Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Approved by the Board on 12 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

C I Cameron
Director

Aspirations Care Limited

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The directors are responsible for preparing the Strategic Report, Directors' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have 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 directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are 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 directors are required to:

• | select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
• | make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
• | state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards has been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
• | 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 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.

Aspirations Care Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Aspirations Care Limited

Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of Aspirations Care Limited (the 'Company') for the year ended 31 March 2025, which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, 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 our opinion the financial statements:
•
• give a true and fair view of the state of the Company's affairs as at 31 March 2025 and of its profit/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 Auditors' 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 United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council'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 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.
Other information
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditors' 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.
Opinion on other matters 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 Strategic Report and Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
• the Strategic Report and Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Aspirations Care Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Aspirations Care Limited

Matters on which we are required to report by exception
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 and Directors' Report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which 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.
Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the Directors' Responsibilities Statement set out on page 5, the directors are 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 directors determine 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 directors are 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 directors either intend to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditors' 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 Auditors' 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:
The Company is subject to laws and regulations that directly affect the financial statements including financial reporting legislation. We determined that the following laws and regulations were most significant:
• The Companies Act 2006
• Financial Reporting Standard 102
• UK employment legislation
• UK tax legislation
We assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement items.
We understood how the Company is complying with those legal and regulatory frameworks by making inquiries to management and those responsible for legal and compliance procedures.
The engagement partner assessed whether the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence and capabilities to identify or recognise non-compliance with laws and regulations. He did not identify any issues in this area.

Aspirations Care Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Aspirations Care Limited

We assessed the susceptibility of the Company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur. Audit procedures performed by the engagement team included:
• Identifying and assessing the design effectiveness of controls management has in place to prevent and detect fraud;
• Understanding how those charged with governance considered and addressed the potential for override of controls or other inappropriate influence over the financial reporting process;
• Challenging assumptions and judgements made by management in its significant accounting estimates; and
• Identifying and testing journal entries, in particular any journal entries posted outside of the normal working patterns of the accounts team, or with unusual descriptions or account combinations.
As a result of the above procedures, we considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and identified the greatest potential for fraud in the following areas:
• The posting of unusual journals and complex transactions; or
• The use of management override of controls to manipulate results.
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 Auditors' 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 Auditors' 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.

Andrew Wooding (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Menzies LLP Chartered Accountants & Statutory Auditor
4th Floor, 95 Gresham Street
London
EC2V 7AB

13 November 2025

Aspirations Care Limited

Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Turnover | 3 | 33,587,605 | 30,094,048
Other operating income | 4 | - | 177,056
Cost of sales |  | (26,476,495) | (24,570,144)
Gross profit |  | 7,111,110 | 5,700,960
Administrative expenses |  | (5,369,280) | (5,398,594)
Operating (loss)/profit |  | 1,741,830 | 302,366
Taxation | 10 | 13,090 | (244,005)
Profit for the financial year |  | 1,754,920 | 58,361

The above results were derived from continuing operations.

The company has no recognised gains or losses for the year other than the results above (2024 - £nil).

Aspirations Care Limited

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Intangible assets | 11 | - | -
Tangible assets | 12 | 463,573 | 589,497
|  | 463,573 | 589,497
Current assets |  |  |
Debtors: Amounts falling due within one year | 13 | 13,359,304 | 12,654,510
Cash at bank and in hand | 14 | 1,229,167 | 99,571
|  | 14,588,471 | 12,754,081
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 15 | (10,522,152) | (10,557,121)
Net current assets |  | 4,066,319 | 2,196,960
Total assets less current liabilities |  | 4,529,892 | 2,786,457
Provisions for liabilities | 10 | (86,264) | (97,749)
Net assets |  | 4,443,628 | 2,688,708
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital | 18 | 2 | 2
Profit and loss account |  | 4,443,626 | 2,688,706
Total equity |  | 4,443,628 | 2,688,708

Approved and authorised by the Board on 12 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

C I Cameron
Director

Aspirations Care Limited

Statement of Changes in Equity for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

| Share capital £ | Profit and loss account £ | Total £
At 1 April 2024 | 2 | 2,688,706 | 2,688,708
Profit for the year | - | 1,754,920 | 1,754,920
At 31 March 2025 | 2 | 4,443,626 | 4,443,628

| Share capital £ | Profit and loss account £ | Total £
At 1 April 2023 | 2 | 2,630,345 | 2,630,347
Profit for the year | - | 58,361 | 58,361
At 31 March 2024 | 2 | 2,688,706 | 2,688,708

Aspirations Care 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 England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
Corinium House
Barnwood Point Business Park
Corinium Avenue
Gloucester
GL4 3HX

| 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 were prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006'.

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except for, where disclosed in these accounting policies, certain items that are shown at fair value.

The presentational currency of the financial statements is Pounds Sterling, being the functional currency of the primary economic environment in which the company operates. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest Pound.

Summary of disclosure exemptions

The company has not presented a cash flow statement on the grounds that the company is a wholly owned subsidiary and a group cash flow statement is included in the financial statements of the ultimate parent company, Pine Topco Limited.

Name of parent of group

These financial statements are consolidated in the financial statements of Pine Topco Limited.

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

Going concern

The directors consider that, having reviewed both the funding arrangements for the group and the company and the profit and cash flow forecasts for the next 12 months that the company has sufficient resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.

Judgements and estimation uncertainty

These financial statements do not contain any significant judgements or estimation uncertainty.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for the provision of services in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. 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 are recognised based on the accrual model and are measured at the fair value of the asset received or receivable. Grants are classified as relating either to revenue or to assets. Grants relating to revenue are recognised in income over the period in which the related costs are recognised. Grants relating to assets are recognised over the expected useful life of the asset. Where part of a grant relating to an asset is deferred, it is recognised as deferred income.

Aspirations Care Limited

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

Tax

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

The current 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 on temporary differences arising between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts in the financial statements and on unused tax losses or tax credits in the company. Deferred tax is determined using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date.
The carrying amount of deferred tax assets are reviewed at each reporting date and a valuation allowance is set up against deferred tax assets so that the net carrying amount equals the highest amount that is more likely than not to be recovered based on current or future taxable profit.

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 over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class | Depreciation method and rate
Leasehold property | Over the term of the lease
Fixtures and fittings | 33% of cost per annum
Motor vehicles | 25% straight line / 25% reducing balance

Intangible assets

Goodwill arising on the acquisition of an entity represents the excess of the cost of acquisition over the company’s interest in the net fair value of the identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities of the entity recognised at the date of acquisition. Goodwill is initially recognised as an asset at cost and is subsequently measured at cost less accumulated amortisation and accumulated impairment losses. Goodwill is held in the currency of the acquired entity and revalued to the closing rate at each reporting period date.
Negative goodwill arising on an acquisition is recognised on the face of the balance sheet on the acquisition date and subsequently the excess up to the fair value of non-monetary assets acquired is recognised in profit or loss in the periods in which the non-monetary assets are recovered.

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
Goodwill | 10 years straight line

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 services performed in the ordinary course of business.
Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. All trade debtors are repayable within one year and are hence included at the undiscounted amount of the cash expected to be received. 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 debtors.

Aspirations Care Limited

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

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 all are repayable within one year and hence are included at the undiscounted amount of cash expected to be paid.

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.

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.

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.

Financial instruments
Classification
Financial instruments are classified and accounted for according to the substance of the contractual arrangement, as financial assets, financial liabilities or equity instruments. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities. Where shares are issued, any component that creates a financial liability of the company is presented as a liability on the balance sheet. The corresponding dividends relating to the liability component are charged as interest expenses in the profit and loss account.
Recognition and measurement
All financial assets and liabilities are initially measured at transaction price (including transaction costs), except for those financial assets classified as at fair value through profit or loss, which are initially measured at fair value (which is normally the transaction price excluding transaction costs), unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction. If an arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, the financial asset or financial liability is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument.

Aspirations Care Limited

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

Financial instruments (continued)
Impairment
Assets, other than those measured at fair value, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each balance sheet date. If there is objective evidence of impairment, an impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss as described below.
A non financial asset is impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after initial recognition, the estimated recoverable value of the asset has been reduced. The recoverable amount of an asset is the higher of its fair value less costs to sell and its value in use.
The recoverable amount of goodwill is derived from measurement of the present value of the future cash flows of the cash-generating units ('CGUs') of which the goodwill is a part. Any impairment loss in respect of a 'CGU' is allocated first to the goodwill attached to that CGU, and then to other assets within that CGU on a pro-rata basis.
Where indicators exist for a decrease in impairment loss, the prior impairment loss is tested to determine reversal. An impairment loss is reversed on an individual impaired asset to the extent that the revised recoverable value does not lead to a revised carrying amount higher than the carrying value had no impairment been recognised. Where a reversal of impairment occurs in respect of a CGU, the reversal is applied first to the assets (other than goodwill) of the CGU on a pro-rata basis and then to any goodwill allocated to that CGU.
For financial assets carried at amortised cost, the amount of an impairment is the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows, discounted at the financial asset’s original effective interest rate.
For financial assets carried at cost less impairment, the impairment loss is the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the best estimate of the amount that would be received for the asset if it were to be sold at the reporting date.
Where indicators exist for a decrease in impairment loss, and the decrease can be related objectively to an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the prior impairment loss is tested to determine reversal. An impairment loss is reversed on an individual impaired financial asset to the extent that the revised recoverable value does not lead to a revised carrying amount higher than the carrying value had no impairment been recognised.

| 3 | Turnover

The total turnover of the company for the year has been derived from its principal activity wholly undertaken in the United Kingdom.

| 4 | Other operating income

The analysis of the company's other operating income for the year is as follows:

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Infection control grants | - | 177,056

| 5 | Operating profit

Arrived at after charging

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Depreciation expense | 249,800 | 334,288
Operating lease expense - property (includes void costs) | 1,309,835 | 1,002,677
Operating lease expense - plant and machinery | 7,788 | 18,772

Aspirations Care Limited

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

| 6 | Exceptional items

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Exceptional administrative expenses | 315,824 | 100,933

Exceptional items in the current year comprise £253,995 of staff restructuring costs and £61,829 of other exceptional costs.
Exceptional items in the prior year comprised predominantly of staff severance packages and restructuring costs.

| 7 | Staff costs

The aggregate payroll costs (including directors' remuneration) were as follows:

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Wages and salaries | 24,108,305 | 22,838,209
Social security costs | 1,971,833 | 1,677,230
Pension costs, defined contribution scheme | 427,141 | 380,040
| 26,507,279 | 24,895,479

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, analysed by category was as follows:

| 2025 No. | 2024 No.
Administration and support | 64 | 67
Care | 978 | 986
| 1,042 | 1,053

| 8 | Directors' remuneration

Directors' remuneration has been borne by a fellow group company.

| 9 | Auditors' remuneration

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Audit fees | 25,000 | 20,000

Aspirations Care Limited

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

| 10 | Taxation

Tax (credited)/charged in the income statement

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Current taxation |  |
UK corporation tax adjustment to prior periods | (1,605) | (1,752)
Deferred taxation |  |
Arising from origination and reversal of timing differences | (11,485) | 245,757
Tax (receipt)/expense in the profit and loss account | (13,090) | 244,005

The tax on profit before tax for the year is higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK (2024 - higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK) of 25% (2024 - 25%).
The differences are reconciled below:

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Profit before tax | 1,741,830 | 302,366
Corporation tax at standard rate | 435,458 | 75,592
Effect of expense not deductible in determining taxable profit (tax loss) | - | 5,072
Effect of tax losses | - | 28,814
Deferred tax credit relating to changes in tax rates or laws | (11,485) | -
Decrease in UK and foreign current tax from adjustment for prior periods | (1,605) | (1,752)
Tax increase from effect of capital allowances and depreciation | 45,975 | 136,279
Tax decrease arising from group relief | (481,433) | -
Total tax (credit)/charge | (13,090) | 244,005

Deferred tax

Deferred tax assets and liabilities

2025 | Liability £
Fixed asset timing differences | 106,044
Tax losses carried forward | (10,565)
Short term timing differences | (9,215)
| 86,264

2024 | Liability £
Fixed asset timing differences | 117,530
Tax losses carried forward | (10,565)
Short term timing differences | (9,216)
| 97,749

As at 31 March 2025, the company had £42,262 (2024 - £42,262) of taxable losses available to carry forward to offset against future profits. A deferred tax asset of £10,565 (2024 - £10,565) has been recognised at 25%.

Aspirations Care Limited

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

| 11 | Intangible assets

| Goodwill £
Cost
At 1 April 2024 and at 31 March 2025 | 1,050,000
Amortisation
At 1 April 2024 and at 31 March 2025 | 1,050,000
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2024 and at 31 March 2025 | -

| 12 | Tangible assets

| Leasehold improvements £ | Fixtures and fittings £ | Motor vehicles £ | Total £
Cost
At 1 April 2024 | 667,113 | 2,324,741 | 54,531 | 3,046,385
Additions | - | 123,876 | - | 123,876
At 31 March 2025 | 667,113 | 2,448,617 | 54,531 | 3,170,261
Depreciation
At 1 April 2024 | 644,260 | 1,758,097 | 54,531 | 2,456,888
Charge for the year | 2,878 | 246,922 | - | 249,800
At 31 March 2025 | 647,138 | 2,005,019 | 54,531 | 2,706,688
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2025 | 19,975 | 443,598 | - | 463,573
At 31 March 2024 | 22,853 | 566,644 | - | 589,497

| 13 | Debtors

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Trade debtors | 2,392,427 | 2,594,090
Amounts owed by group undertakings | 9,757,920 | 8,903,134
Accrued income | 829,874 | 725,735
Other debtors | 1,226 | 31,697
Prepayments | 377,857 | 399,854
| 13,359,304 | 12,654,510

| 14 | Cash and cash equivalents

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Cash on hand | 3,968 | 1,107
Cash at bank | 1,225,199 | 98,464
| 1,229,167 | 99,571

Aspirations Care Limited

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

| 15 | Creditors

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due within one year |  |
Trade creditors | 920,892 | 1,268,825
Amounts due to group undertakings | 8,148,256 | 8,018,034
Social security and other taxes | 441,935 | 396,152
Other creditors | 106,781 | 58,076
Accrued expenses | 904,288 | 816,034
| 10,522,152 | 10,557,121

| 16 | Pension and other schemes

Defined contribution pension scheme

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The pension cost charge for the year represents contributions payable by the company to the scheme and amounted to £427,141 (2024 - £380,040).
Contributions totalling £86,454 (2024 - £77,537) were payable to the scheme at the end of the year and are included in creditors.

| 17 | Obligations under operating leases

Operating leases - land and buildings

The total of future minimum lease payments is as follows:

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Not later than one year | 66,180 | 16,648
Later than one year and not later than five years | 132,489 | 34,738
| 198,669 | 51,386

| 18 | Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

| 2025 | 2024
| No. | £ | No. | £
Ordinary shares of £1 each | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2

| 19 | Contingent liabilities

The company is bound by an intra-group cross guarantee in respect of bank debt with other members of the group headed by its ultimate parent undertaking, Pine Topco Limited. The maximum amount the company could become liable for at 31 March 2025 was £1,750,000 (2024 - £1,750,000).

| 20 | Related party transactions

During the year, £nil was paid to Eton Bridge Partners Limited in recruitment fees (2024 - £44,000). This company is also controlled by Elysian Capital II LP.

Aspirations Care Limited

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

| 21 | Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The company's immediate parent is Pine Bidco Limited, incorporated in England and Wales.
The ultimate parent is Pine Topco Limited, incorporated in England and Wales.
The most senior parent entity producing publicly available financial statements is Pine Topco Limited.The ultimate controlling party is Elysian Capital II LP.