Company registration number 11501969 (England and Wales)
TOTALLY WICKED BIDCO LIMITED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
PAGES FOR FILING WITH REGISTRAR
TOTALLY WICKED BIDCO LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Balance sheet
1
Notes to the financial statements
2 - 6
TOTALLY WICKED BIDCO LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
31 MARCH 2025
31 March 2025
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2025
2024
Notes
£
£
£
£
Current assets
Debtors
3
702,189
702,189
Cash at bank and in hand
388,364
2,061,606
1,090,553
2,763,795
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
4
(1,476)
(1,856,014)
Net current assets
1,089,077
907,781
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
749
749
Profit and loss reserves
1,088,328
907,032
Total equity
1,089,077
907,781
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 11 December 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:
Mr M J Saxton
Director
Company registration number 11501969 (England and Wales)
TOTALLY WICKED BIDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
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1
Accounting policies
Company information
Totally Wicked Bidco Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Stancliffe Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB2 2QR.
1.1
Accounting convention
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
This company is a qualifying entity for the purposes of FRS 102, being a member of a group where the parent of that group prepares publicly available consolidated financial statements, including this company, which are intended to give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the group. The company has therefore taken advantage of exemptions from the following disclosure requirements:
The financial statements of the company are consolidated in the financial statements of Totally Wicked Holdings Limited. These consolidated financial statements are available from the company's registered office.
1.2
Going concern
The directors are not aware of any material uncertainties affecting the company and consider that the company will have sufficient resources to continue trading for the foreseeable future. As a result, the directors have continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.true
1.3
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.
1.4
Financial instruments
The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
Financial instruments are recognised in the company's balance sheet when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally 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.
1.5
Equity instruments
Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
TOTALLY WICKED BIDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.6
Taxation
The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable.
Current tax
The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.
1.7
Employee benefits
The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of the cost of stock or fixed assets.
1.8
Retirement benefits
Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.
1.9
Leases
Rentals payable under operating leases, including any lease incentives received, are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease except where another more systematic basis is more representative of the time pattern in which economic benefits from the leases asset are consumed.
2
Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
2025
2024
Number
Number
Total
6
6
3
Debtors
2025
2024
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Corporation tax recoverable
177,188
177,188
Other debtors
1
1
177,189
177,189
2025
2024
Amounts falling due after more than one year:
£
£
Other debtors
525,000
525,000
Total debtors
702,189
702,189
TOTALLY WICKED BIDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
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4
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2025
2024
£
£
Corporation tax
94,702
Other taxation and social security
1,543,341
Other creditors
1,476
217,971
1,476
1,856,014
5
Audit report information
As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements, the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006.
The auditor's report is unqualified and includes the following:
Opinion
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 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.
Senior Statutory Auditor:
Simon Diggle
Statutory Auditor:
Pierce C A Limited
Date of audit report:
11 December 2025
6
Financial commitments, guarantees and contingent liabilities
This company, together with fellow group companies, has provided its bankers with a multilateral guarantee. At the balance sheet date an amount of £5,000,000 (2024 - £8,333,333) was outstanding in respect of this guarantee.
The company, together with fellow group companies, has provided a guarantee in favour of Mr F B N Cropper as Security Trustee which is secured over the assets of this and fellow group companies. At the balance sheet date the outstanding amount in respect of this guarantee was £11,162,853 (2024 - £19,755,334).
7
Operating lease commitments
As lessee
TOTALLY WICKED BIDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
7
Operating lease commitments
(Continued)
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At the reporting end date the company had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, as follows:
2025
2024
£
£
Total commitments
79,544
145,784
8
Events after the reporting date
Subsequent to the balance sheet date this company's ultimate holding company, Totally Wicked Holdings Limited, sold a majority shareholding to Wittyace UK Holding Limited.
TOTALLY WICKED BIDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
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9
Related party transactions
During the year, the company operated a loan account with a director of a former group company and at the balance sheet date the company was owed £525,000 (2024 - £525,000). Interest is being charged on the loan at 2.25%.