Registration number: 05145030

Specialist Surface Preparation Limited

(Registration number: 05145030)
Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2025

	Note	2025 £	2024 £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets	4	106,608	146,536
Current assets
Stocks		3,558	2,209
Debtors	5	340,752	419,363
Cash at bank and in hand		735,148	709,310
		1,079,458	1,130,882
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year	6	(165,488)	(282,303)
Net current assets		913,970	848,579
Total assets less current liabilities		1,020,578	995,115
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year	6	(6,166)	(37,502)
Provisions for liabilities		(26,652)	(36,634)
Net assets		987,760	920,979
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital	8	500	500
Capital redemption reserve		500	500
Retained earnings		986,760	919,979
Shareholders' funds		987,760	920,979

Specialist Surface Preparation Limited

(Registration number: 05145030)
Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2025

For the financial year ending 31 July 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Director's 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 director acknowledges his 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 director has not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the director on 21 April 2026
 

Mr G S Burcham Director

Specialist Surface Preparation Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2025

1	General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England.

The address of its registered office is:
41 North Farm Road
Scunthorpe
North Lincolnshire
DN17 2AY

Registered number: 05145030

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 sale of goods and provision of services in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. Turnover is shown net of sales/value added tax, 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 and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, 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.

The current 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.

Specialist Surface Preparation Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2025

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between taxable profits and profits reported in the financial statements.

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

Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.

The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class	Depreciation method and rate
Furniture, fittings and equipment	15% per annum on cost
Motor vehicles	15% per annum 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 at the transaction price, 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 receivables.

Stocks

Stocks are stated at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell. Cost is determined using the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable 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 at the transaction price.

Specialist Surface Preparation Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2025

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs.

Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.

Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the company has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Leases

Leases are classified as finance leases whenever the terms of the lease transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the lessee.

Assets held under finance leases are recognised at the lower of their fair value at inception of the lease and the present value of the minimum lease payments. These assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the useful life of the asset and the lease term. The corresponding liability to the lessor is included in the balance sheet as a finance lease obligation.

Lease payments are apportioned between finance costs in the profit and loss account and reduction of the lease obligation so as to achieve a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability.

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 the director) during the year was 14 (2024 - 16).

Specialist Surface Preparation Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2025

4	Tangible assets

	Furniture, fittings and equipment  £	Motor vehicles  £	Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 August 2024	867,877	327,794	1,195,671
Additions	4,980	-	4,980
At 31 July 2025	872,857	327,794	1,200,651
Depreciation
At 1 August 2024	806,790	242,345	1,049,135
Charge for the year	21,400	23,508	44,908
At 31 July 2025	828,190	265,853	1,094,043
Carrying amount
At 31 July 2025	44,667	61,941	106,608
At 31 July 2024	61,087	85,449	146,536

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Debtors

	2025 £	2024 £
Trade debtors	323,271	387,656
Prepayments	2,653	2,512
Social security and other taxes	14,828	29,195
	340,752	419,363

Specialist Surface Preparation Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2025

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Creditors

	Note	2025 £	2024 £
Due within one year
Loans and borrowings	7	31,336	89,664
Trade payables		57,123	84,834
Social security and other taxes		72,412	101,924
Other payables		4,617	5,881
		165,488	282,303