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REGISTERED NUMBER: SC310529 (Scotland)

Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

for

Cocoa Black Limited

| Cocoa Black Limited (Registered number: SC310529) |

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

Page |

| Balance Sheet | 1 |

| Chartered Accountant's Report | 3 |

| Cocoa Black Limited (Registered number: SC310529) |

Balance Sheet

31 October 2025

| 31.10.25 | 31.10.24 |

£ | £ | £ | £ |

FIXED ASSETS | 45,904 |  | 63,042 |  |

CURRENT ASSETS | 118,348 |  | 103,487 |  |

PREPAYMENTS AND ACCRUED INCOME | 8,950 |  | - |  |

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year | (86,475 | ) | (117,079 | ) |

NET CURRENT ASSETS/(LIABILITIES) | 40,823 |  | (13,592 | ) |

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES | 86,727 |  | 49,450 |  |

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due after more than one year | (107,547 | ) | (140,946 | ) |

ACCRUALS AND DEFERRED INCOME | (35,452 | ) | (21,773 | ) |

NET LIABILITIES | (56,272 | ) | (113,269 | ) |

CAPITAL AND RESERVES | (56,272 | ) | (113,269 | ) |

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION

| Cocoa Black Limited is a private company, limited by shares , registered in Scotland. The company's registered number and registered office address are as below:

| Registered number: | SC310529

| Registered office: | Woodbine Cottage

| Eddleston

| Peebles

| Borders

| EH45 8PJ

| The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£).

2. | AVERAGE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

| The average number of employees during the year was 13 (2024 - 14 ) .

3. | DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES

| Mr and Mrs D Hinks have made loans to the company with no repayment date or interest charge.

| The balances as at 31 October 2025 are £41,342 (2024 £33,475).

| Cocoa Black Limited (Registered number: SC310529) |

Balance Sheet - continued

31 October 2025

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

4. | SECURED CREDITORS AND OTHER FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS

| Secured Creditors

| Finance lease creditors in the balance sheet of £13,047 (2024 £18,739) are secured against fixed assets with a net book value of £14,728 (2024 £22,763).

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 October 2025.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 October 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 in accordance with the micro-entity provisions and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 14 April 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:

Mrs R Hinks - Director

D Hinks - Director

Chartered Accountant's Report to the Board of Directors

on the Unaudited Financial Statements of

Cocoa Black 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 is not required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies.

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, I have prepared for your approval the financial statements of Cocoa Black Limited for the year ended 31 October 2025 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 me.

As a practising member of ICAS, I am subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at https://icas.com/icas-framework-preparation-of-accounts.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Cocoa Black Limited, as a body, in accordance with my terms of engagement. My work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of Cocoa Black Limited and state those matters that I have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Cocoa Black Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with the requirements of ICAS as detailed at https://icas.com/icas-framework-preparation-of-accounts. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and its Board of Directors, as a body, for my work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Cocoa Black 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 Cocoa Black Limited. You consider that Cocoa Black Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

I have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements of Cocoa Black Limited. For this reason, I have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to me and I do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory financial statements.

Gall Robertson CA

Tweedside Park

Tweedbank

Galashiels

Selkirkshire

TD1 3TE

14 April 2026