| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| Unaudited Financial Statements |
| for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 |
| for |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| Unaudited Financial Statements |
| for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 |
| for |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 04610534) |
| Contents of the Financial Statements |
| for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 |
| Page |
| Company Information | 1 |
| Balance Sheet | 2 |
| Notes to the Financial Statements | 4 |
| Chartered Accountants' Report | 8 |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED |
| Company Information |
| for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 |
| DIRECTORS: |
| SECRETARY: |
| REGISTERED OFFICE: |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| ACCOUNTANTS: |
| Chartered Accountants |
| Llanover House |
| Llanover Road |
| Pontypridd |
| Rhondda Cynon Taff |
| CF37 4DY |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 04610534) |
| Balance Sheet |
| 31 December 2024 |
| 31.12.24 | 31.12.23 |
| Notes | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| FIXED ASSETS |
| Tangible assets | 4 |
| CURRENT ASSETS |
| Stocks |
| Debtors | 5 |
| CREDITORS |
| Amounts falling due within one year | 6 |
| NET CURRENT LIABILITIES | ( |
) | ( |
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| TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES |
| CREDITORS |
| Amounts falling due after more than one year |
7 |
( |
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( |
) |
| PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES | ( |
) | ( |
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| NET ASSETS |
| CAPITAL AND RESERVES |
| Called up share capital |
| Revaluation reserve | 9 |
| Retained earnings |
| SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS |
| 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. |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 04610534) |
| Balance Sheet - continued |
| 31 December 2024 |
| The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 04610534) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements |
| for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 |
| 1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION |
| Castle Court Funeral Home Limited is a |
| 2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
| Basis of preparing the financial statements |
| 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 |
| Fixtures and fittings | - |
| Motor vehicles | - |
| Computer equipment | - |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 04610534) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
| for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 |
| 4. | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS |
| Fixtures |
| Freehold | and | Motor | Computer |
| property | fittings | vehicles | equipment | Totals |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| COST OR VALUATION |
| At 1 January 2024 |
| Disposals | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| At 31 December 2024 |
| DEPRECIATION |
| At 1 January 2024 |
| Charge for year |
| Eliminated on disposal | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| At 31 December 2024 |
| NET BOOK VALUE |
| At 31 December 2024 |
| At 31 December 2023 |
| Cost or valuation at 31 December 2024 is represented by: |
| Fixtures |
| Freehold | and | Motor | Computer |
| property | fittings | vehicles | equipment | Totals |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| Valuation in 2008 | 190,000 | - | - | - | 190,000 |
| Cost | 60,000 | 779 | 597,037 | 659 | 658,475 |
| 250,000 | 779 | 597,037 | 659 | 848,475 |
| If freehold property had not been revalued it would have been included at the following historical cost: |
| 31.12.24 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Cost | 60,000 | 60,000 |
| Value of land in freehold land and buildings | 60,000 | 60,000 |
| Freehold property was valued on an open market basis on 31 December 2008 by the director . |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 04610534) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
| for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 |
| 4. | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS - continued |
| Fixed assets, included in the above, which are held under hire purchase contracts are as follows: |
| Motor |
| vehicles |
| £ |
| COST OR VALUATION |
| At 1 January 2024 |
| and 31 December 2024 |
| DEPRECIATION |
| At 1 January 2024 |
| Charge for year |
| At 31 December 2024 |
| NET BOOK VALUE |
| At 31 December 2024 |
| At 31 December 2023 |
| 5. | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
| 31.12.24 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Trade debtors |
| Amounts recoverable on contract |
| Other debtors |
| 6. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
| 31.12.24 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Bank loans and overdrafts |
| Hire purchase contracts |
| Trade creditors |
| Taxation and social security |
| Other creditors |
| 7. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR |
| 31.12.24 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Hire purchase contracts |
| CASTLE COURT FUNERAL HOME LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 04610534) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
| for the Year Ended 31 December 2024 |
| 8. | SECURED DEBTS |
| The following secured debts are included within creditors: |
| 31.12.24 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Bank overdrafts |
| Hire purchase contracts | 189,095 | 224,571 |
| The bank loans are secured by a charge over the company's assets. The hire purchase liability is secured by a charge over the assets financed by those agreements. |
| 9. | RESERVES |
| Revaluation |
| reserve |
| £ |
| At 1 January 2024 |
| and 31 December 2024 |
| 10. | DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES |
| The following advances and credits to directors subsisted during the years ended 31 December 2024 and 31 December 2023: |
| 31.12.24 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Balance outstanding at start of year | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| Amounts advanced |
| Amounts repaid | ( |
) | ( |
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| Amounts written off | - | - |
| Amounts waived | - | - |
| Balance outstanding at end of year | ( |
) | ( |
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| Balance outstanding at start of year | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| Amounts advanced |
| Amounts repaid | ( |
) | ( |
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| Amounts written off | - | - |
| Amounts waived | - | - |
| Balance outstanding at end of year | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| 11. | RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES |
| During the year, total dividends of £127,250 (2023 - £117,000) were paid to the directors . |
| 12. | ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY |
| The ultimate controlling party is |
| During the year the company was under the control of Mr A J Humphrey a majority shareholder and director. |
| Chartered Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors |
| on the Unaudited Financial Statements of |
| Castle Court Funeral Home 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 Castle Court Funeral Home Limited for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the Income Statement, Balance Sheet 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 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed within the ICAEW's regulations and guidance at http://www.icaew.com/en/membership/regulations-standards-and-guidance. |
| This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Castle Court Funeral Home 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 Castle Court Funeral Home Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Castle Court Funeral Home Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Castle Court Funeral Home Limited and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report. |
| It is your duty to ensure that Castle Court Funeral Home 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 Castle Court Funeral Home Limited. You consider that Castle Court Funeral Home 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 Castle Court Funeral Home 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. |
| Chartered Accountants |
| Llanover House |
| Llanover Road |
| Pontypridd |
| Rhondda Cynon Taff |
| CF37 4DY |