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Registration number: 03396922

Martin Bown & Co Ltd
Unaudited Filleted Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 30 June 2025

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

Contents

Company Information | 1
Balance Sheet | 2 to 3
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements | 4 to 8

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

Company Information

Directors | P. M. Martin D. A. Billington S. P. Steele

Registered office | Westwood House 78 Loughborough Road Quorn Loughborough Leicestershire LE12 8DX

Accountants | Robert Whowell & Partners LLP Chartered AccountantsWestwood House 78 Loughborough Road Quorn Loughborough Leicestershire LE12 8DX

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

(Registration number: 03396922)
Balance Sheet as at 30 June 2025

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Intangible assets | 4 | - | -
Current assets |  |  |
Debtors | 5 | 509,672 | 660,777
Cash at bank and in hand |  | 327,918 | 403,508
|  | 837,590 | 1,064,285
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 6 | (369,563) | (561,193)
Net current assets |  | 468,027 | 503,092
Net assets |  | 468,027 | 503,092
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital | 7 | 145,000 | 145,000
Retained earnings |  | 323,027 | 358,092
Shareholders' funds |  | 468,027 | 503,092

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

(Registration number: 03396922)
Balance Sheet as at 30 June 2025

For the financial year ending 30 June 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities:

• | The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476; and
• | The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the directors have not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 26 January 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

.........................................

P. M. Martin
Director

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 June 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:
Westwood House
78 Loughborough Road
Quorn
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE12 8DX

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 26 January 2026.

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 have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A smaller entities - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006 (as applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime).

Basis of preparation

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

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. Turnover is shown net of returns, rebates and discounts.
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.

Tax

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

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 June 2025

The current income 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.

Goodwill

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. Goodwill is amortised over its useful life, which shall not exceed ten years if a reliable estimate of the useful life cannot be made.

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 on cost

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 merchandise sold or services performed in the ordinary course of business.
Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. 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.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Trade creditors 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 subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 June 2025

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 the profit and loss account 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.

Dividends

Dividend distribution to the company’s shareholders is recognised as a liability in the financial statements in the reporting period in which the dividends are declared.

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.

3 | Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was 10 (2024 - 10).

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 June 2025

4 | Intangible assets

| Goodwill £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 July 2024 | 180,000 | 180,000
At 30 June 2025 | 180,000 | 180,000
Amortisation
At 1 July 2024 | 180,000 | 180,000
At 30 June 2025 | 180,000 | 180,000
Carrying amount
At 30 June 2025 | - | -
At 30 June 2024 | - | -

5 | Debtors

Current | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Trade debtors | 198,882 | 348,492
Amounts owed by related parties | 285,327 | 285,327
Prepayments | 24,051 | 26,958
Other debtors | 1,412 | -
| 509,672 | 660,777

6 | Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due within one year |  |
Trade creditors | 318,873 | 508,447
Taxation and social security | 4,157 | 24,731
Accruals and deferred income | 33,019 | 14,633
Other creditors | 13,514 | 13,382
| 369,563 | 561,193

Martin Bown & Co Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 June 2025

7 | Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

| 2025 | 2024
| No. | £ | No. | £
Ordinary shares of £1 each | 145,000 | 145,000 | 145,000 | 145,000

8 | Related party transactions

During the year dividends amounting to £nil (2024 - £3,333) were paid to directors.