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REGISTERED NUMBER: 12939694 (England and Wales)




















Unaudited Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

for

Meritcheck Ltd

Meritcheck Ltd (Registered number: 12939694)






Contents of the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025




Page

Company Information 1

Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Financial Statements 3


Meritcheck Ltd

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025







DIRECTORS: Bambury
Mr O C Dale





REGISTERED OFFICE: Unit 1
Manor Farm , The Street
Bridgham
Norfolk
PE37 7XD





REGISTERED NUMBER: 12939694 (England and Wales)

Meritcheck Ltd (Registered number: 12939694)

Balance Sheet
31 March 2025

2025 2024
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Intangible assets 5 358,584 325,050
Tangible assets 6 893 1,423
359,477 326,473

CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 7 178,255 13,310
Investments 8 4 4
Cash at bank 22,895 5,156
201,154 18,470
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 9 879,575 769,748
NET CURRENT LIABILITIES (678,421 ) (751,278 )
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

(318,944

)

(424,805

)

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 1 1
Retained earnings (318,945 ) (424,806 )
(318,944 ) (424,805 )

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.

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

In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 21 December 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:





Mr O C Dale - Director


Meritcheck Ltd (Registered number: 12939694)

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

1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

Meritcheck Ltd 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.

2. STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE

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.

3. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements
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.

Intangible assets
Intangible assets are initially measured at cost. After initial recognition, intangible assets are measured at cost less any accumulated amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses.

Patents and licences are being amortised evenly over their estimated useful life of nil years.

Development costs are being amortised evenly over their estimated useful life of nil years.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Computer equipment - 20% on straight line basis

Impairment of fixed assets

A review for indicators of impairment is carried out at each reporting date, with the recoverable amount being estimated where such indicators exist. Where the carrying value exceeds the recoverable amount, the asset is impaired accordingly. Prior impairments are also reviewed for possible reversal at each reporting date.

For the purposes of impairment testing, when it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, an estimate is made of the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs. The cash-generating unit is the smallest identifiable group of assets that includes the asset and generates cash inflows that largely independent of the cash inflows from other assets or groups of assets.

For impairment testing of goodwill, the goodwill acquired in a business combination is, from the acquisition date, allocated to each of the cash-generating units that are expected to benefit from the synergies of the combination, irrespective of whether other assets or liabilities of the company are assigned to those units.

Meritcheck Ltd (Registered number: 12939694)

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

3. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Financial instruments
A financial asset or a financial liability is recognised only when the company becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at the transaction price, unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where it is recognised at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument.

Debt instruments are subsequently measured at amortised cost.

Where investments in non-convertible preference shares and non-puttable ordinary shares or preference shares are publicly traded or their fair value can otherwise be measured reliably, the investment is subsequently measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognised in profit or loss. All other such investments are subsequently measured at cost less impairment.

Other financial instruments, including derivatives, are initially recognised at fair value, unless payment for an asset is deferred beyond normal business terms or financed at a rate of interest that is not a market rate, in which case the asset is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument.

Other financial instruments are subsequently measured at fair value, with any changes recognised in profit or loss, with the exception of hedging instruments in a designated hedging relationship.

Financial assets that are measured at cost or amortised cost are reviewed for objective evidence of impairment at the end of each reporting date. If there is objective evidence of impairment, an impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss immediately.

For all equity instruments regardless of significance, and other financial assets that are individually significant, these are assessed individually for impairment. Other financial assets are either assessed individually or grouped on the basis of similar credit risk characteristics.

Any reversals of impairment are recognised in profit or loss immediately, to the extent that the reversal does not result in a carrying amount of the financial asset that exceeds what the carrying amount would have been had the impairment not previously been recognised

Taxation
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted.

Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

Deferred tax
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date.

Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

Foreign currencies
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date. Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of transaction. Exchange differences are taken into account in arriving at the operating result.

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.

Meritcheck Ltd (Registered number: 12939694)

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

4. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 1 (2024 - 4 ) .

5. INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Patents
and Development
licences costs Totals
£    £    £   
COST
At 1 April 2024 220 324,830 325,050
Additions - 33,534 33,534
At 31 March 2025 220 358,364 358,584
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2025 220 358,364 358,584
At 31 March 2024 220 324,830 325,050

6. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Computer
equipment
£   
COST
At 1 April 2024
and 31 March 2025 2,650
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2024 1,227
Charge for year 530
At 31 March 2025 1,757
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2025 893
At 31 March 2024 1,423

7. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2025 2024
£    £   
Trade debtors - 7,644
Amounts owed by group undertakings 175,417 3
VAT - 3,408
Prepayments and accrued income 2,838 2,255
178,255 13,310

8. CURRENT ASSET INVESTMENTS
2025 2024
£    £   
Shares in group undertakings 4 4

Meritcheck Ltd (Registered number: 12939694)

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

9. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2025 2024
£    £   
Trade creditors 30,348 26,116
Amounts owed to group undertakings 672,275 718,434
Tax 19,464 -
Social security and other taxes 4,009 4,405
VAT 5,565 -
Other creditors - 80
Directors' current accounts 146,829 -
Accruals and deferred income 1,085 20,713
879,575 769,748

10. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

Exceptional items include loan balances written off with companies under common control of £48,000 (2024 - £NIL) during the year ended 31st March 2025.

At the 31st March 2025, the company owed £30,000 (2024 - £30,000) to Horace Bull Ltd which is also under common control.