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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
The Directors present their report and financial statements for the year ended 30th June 2025.
It was with great pleasure that, in March 2025, we received notification that our continued work at the Royal Palaces had been seen to be of sufficient quality for the company to be granted the Royal Warrant of Appointment to The King as lifting equipment manufacturers and engineers. This comes with a responsibility to not only continue with our superb work but to develop as a more sustainable business. We are already committed to this, but we have to demonstrate year on year improvement to maintain the Warrant.
The Board, as always, remains cautious and maintains a strong financial position with investment focussed on efficiency, quality and sustainability. This was the first year with Sidetracker Engineering forming an internal division within Penny Engineering Ltd. which has led to further cost savings and profitability within the group. There has been a significant investment with Hallam University through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership to develop a class-leading multi-directional forklift truck. Progress is on target for the new truck to be put to market before June 2026. The company name change to Penny Engineering and subsequent marketing campaigns have brought an increase in sales of non-core product ranges such as our lighting winch systems, nuclear decommissioning solutions and solid tyre pressing equipment. As all sectors remain turbulent due to the worldwide political situation the growth in what are currently non-core ranges are a focus for growth. The £1M programme of investment in environmental and sustainability related improvements continued with new offices and welfare facilities at the Sidetracker factory with 100% LED lighting, improved insulation and low energy appliances. Trials of an EV van for our service engineers in London is still underway as we continue to pursue our sustainability goals. More solar panels plus battery storage are planned for 2026. Turnover during the past financial year was at an excellent level considering the economic uncertainty. Total sales for the year amounted to £10,069,188 with export sales at record levels. Building new links with overseas customers and strengthening old links is a key priority along with the promotion of non-core ranges.
The Board’s cautious approach and high levels of re-investment in the past has kept the company at the forefront of technology with respected products, efficient systems and low overheads. The Company has no borrowing requirement. Most components are UK or EU sourced with little reliance on the Far East. The diverse customer base allows marketing resource to be redirected should any one sector suffer a down-turn.
The directors use a number KPls in measuring the performance of the business, as follows:
• Trends in turnover year on year • Profit before tax as a percentage of turnover • Return on capital employed • Trends in cashflow • Debtor Days and Creditor Days • Trends in output by product • Health and safety statistics • Net promoter score and Trust pilot reviews. • Monitoring of energy consumption.
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
The Company is committed to conducting its business in an ethically responsible manner and this commitment has been recognised in that the operating and management systems have been certified as meeting the standards required by ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), EN 1090 (Factory Production Control), ISO 9001 (Quality Management) as well as Cyber Essentials and Fit 4 Nuclear. The topic of corporate, social and environmental governance continues to be greatly important to the business and during the last financial year the board and senior leadership team’s focus is to ensure sustainability, support for our local community and protection of the environment.
The Company's operations expose it to a variety of financial risks that include the effects of credit risk and exchange rate risk. The company monitors and acts in each of these areas as follows:
Credit Risk The Company has implemented policies that require appropriate credit checks on potential customers before sales are made, in addition, credit checks are made on those customers who are deemed to be a significant credit risk to the company. The company also monitors all court judgements made against its customers and makes appropriate adjustments in the light of this information. Exchange Rate Risk The Company monitors its exposures in the foreign currencies in which it regularly transacts in order to protect against excessive fluctuations.
This report was approved by the board on 19 November 2025 and signed on its behalf.
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2025.
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 judgements 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 £492,044 (2024 - £234,999).
The directors who served during the year were:
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.
The auditors, Shorts, will be proposed for reappointment in accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006.
This report was approved by the board on
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
We have audited the financial statements of Penny Engineering Limited (the 'Company') for the year ended 30 June 2025, which comprise the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings, the Balance Sheet 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).
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.
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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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED (CONTINUED)
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.
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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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF PENNY ENGINEERING 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 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:
Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:
∙the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
∙through discussions with the directors and other management and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the clients business, we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the Company; and
∙focusing on the specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the Company, we assessed the extent of compliance with those laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting relevant correspondence.
We assessed the susceptibility of the Company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:
∙making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud; and
∙considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulation.
To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:
∙performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
∙reviewed journal entries to identify unusual transactions;
∙assessed whether judgements and assumptions made in determining the accounting estimates were indicative of potential bias; and
∙investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions.
In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
∙agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation;
∙reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance;
∙enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims; and
∙reviewing and correspondence with HMRC, relevant regulators and the Company’s legal advisors.
There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws andregulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED (CONTINUED)
compliance
Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.
Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.
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.
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.
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditor
2 Ashgate Road
Derbyshire
S40 4AA
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND RETAINED EARNINGS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 01380206
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 30 JUNE 2025
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf on
The notes on pages 11 to 26 form part of these financial statements.
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
Penny Engineering Limited is a private company limited by shares, incorporated in England and Wales (registered number: 01380206). Its registered office is Station Road, Clowne, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 4AB. The principal activity of the Company continued to be that of design, manufacture, installation and service of bespoke lifting equipment. Products include vehicle mounted cranes, goods lifts, winch systems for chandeliers, multi-directional fork-lift trucks and equipment for the nuclear decommissioning industry.
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 preparation of financial statements in compliance with FRS 102 requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires management to exercise judgement in applying the Company's accounting policies (see note 3).
The following principal accounting policies have been applied:
Functional and presentation currency
Transactions and balances
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
2.Accounting policies (continued)
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Depreciation is charged so as to allocate the cost of assets less their residual value over their estimated useful lives, as follows:
The depreciation rates used are
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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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
2.Accounting policies (continued)
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.
Debt instruments (other than those wholly repayable or receivable within one year), including loans and other accounts receivable and payable, are initially measured at present value of the future cash flows and subsequently at amortised cost using the effective interest method. Debt instruments that are payable or receivable within one year, typically trade debtors and creditors, are measured, initially and subsequently, at the undiscounted amount of the cash or other consideration expected to be paid or received. However, if the arrangements of a short-term instrument constitute a financing transaction, like the payment of a trade debt deferred beyond normal business terms or in case of an out-right short-term loan that is not at market rate, the financial asset or liability is measured, initially at the present value of future cash flows discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument and subsequently at amortised cost, unless it qualifies as a loan from a director in the case of a small company, or a public benefit entity concessionary loan. Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amount reported in the Balance Sheet when there is an enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
The company makes estimates and assumptions concerning the future. The resulting accounting estimates will, by definition, seldom equal the related actual results. The estimates and assumptions that have the greatest level of uncertainty are addressed below: (i) Stock provisioning When calculating the stock provision, management considers the nature and condition of the inventory, as well as applying assumptions around anticipated saleability of stock. The carrying value of stock after making such a provision was £2,188,780 (2024: £2,303,629). (ii) Impairment of debtors The company makes an estimate of the recoverable value of trade and other debtors. When assessing impairment of trade and other debtors, management considers factors including the current credit rating of the debtor, the ageing profile of debtors and historical experience. The amount of trade debtors after making such provision was £1,265,798 (2024: £1,006,584). (iii) Warranty provision Based upon previous experience and the particular profile of the sales at the time the company has made an estimate in respect of a warranty provision of £100,867 (2024: £92,682).
Analysis of turnover by country of destination:
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
10.Taxation (continued)
There were no factors that may affect future tax charges.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
Subsidiary undertakings (continued)
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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PENNY ENGINEERING LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
Share premium account
Capital redemption reserve
Profit and loss account
The company operates a defined contributions pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the company to the fund and amounted to £247,810 (2024: £218,493).
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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