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Registration number: 01252230

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 December 2025

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Strategic Report

2 to 3

Directors' Report

4

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

5

Independent Auditor's Report

6 to 8

Profit and Loss Account

9

Statement of Comprehensive Income

10

Balance Sheet

11

Statement of Changes in Equity

12

Notes to the Financial Statements

13 to 26

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Company Information

Directors

C J Avery

R A Jeffery

D R Pritchard

R Hupfield

I Weakford

N Yellop

D Howgate

N Brown

Registered office

Long March
Daventry
NN11 4NR

Auditors

Blue Spire Limited
Chartered Accountants and Statutory AuditorsCawley Priory
South Pallant
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1SY

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2025

The directors present their strategic report for the year ended 31 December 2025.

Principal activity

The Company was incorporated in March 1976, and therefore this report marks its 50th Anniversary of its principal activity of the company which is the manufacture and sale of roofing and ventilation products.

Fair review of the business

The Company achieved sales of £15.78 million (2024: £16.27 million) with an operating profit of £1.087 million (2024: £532K).

Despite the small reduction of 3% in the turnover for the year, the Company achieved increase profitability, primarily as a result of the improved margins due to the completion in of the capital investment programme which commenced in 2023 and which was specifically targeted at enhancing production techniques and efficiencies.

Consequently, the gross profit margin for 2025 increased to 38% from the 34% achieved in 2024.

2025 also saw the successful introduction of a fully integrated computer system, a process which also commenced in 2023.

The Company will continue to invest in new plant and equipment and has a strong programme of Research and Development as it continues to enhance and add to its product range.

The Company’s financial position remains stable and, at the date of this report, it continues to have no short or long term borrowing.

Future trading

The UK housebuilding industry in 2026 is currently believed to be entering a transitional phase, and will potentially move out of the market downturn which started at the end of 2023.

The sector remains constrained by affordability issues, high financing costs, regulatory burdens, and subdued private demand and the unease created by the current wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are adding to that concern.

Due to the unsettled global economy, there is currently pressure in the market from raising raw material and shipment costs which by their nature are adding inflationary pressures to end user prices.

At best, the Company feels that 2026 is characterised as a year of stabilisation rather than expansion, with, hopefully, a stronger market recovery expected from 2027 onwards. The UK Government is still “pushing” its desire to substantially increase the rate of house building during its current term of office.

Inter Company dividends

The total of dividends paid during 2025 to its parent Company, Grinterley Limited, was £450,000 (2024: £521,455).

Grinterley Limited paid to its shareholders during 2025, interim dividends of £443,619 (2024: £345,037).


Financial summary

The amount of HP and bank loan debt as at the 31st December 2025 was £nil (2024: £1,360).

Turnover for the year was £ 15,777,246 (2024: £16,267,987).

The operating profit for the year was £1,086,992 (2024: £532,007).

The net profit before Dividends and taxation for the year was £1,072,823 (2024: £554,384).
 

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2025

Changes to the Board of Directors

Ian Weakford stepped down from his position as sales director on the 30th April 2025. The Company is pleased to confirm that from the 1st May 2025 he continued to serve on the Board in the capacity of a non-executive Director.

Neil Brown was appointed sales director on the 1st May 2025.

The 2024 Strategic Report recorded that David Yellop, a founder of the Company who served as a director of the Company from its incorporation in March 1976, had stepped down from the Board in August 2024.

However, we must now record that David passed away in September 2025 having devoted the majority of his working life to developing the Hambleside organisation in the UK.

In July 2026, the Board will be joined by Antony Thompson. He will be taking on the responsibilities of Managing Director as Chris Avery begins to withdraw.

Chris will step down as an executive director on the 31st March 2027, but will continue to serve on the Board in a non-executive role.

Principal risks and uncertainties

The Company is in a good financial position but it cannot be immune from the current global events and the effects that they are having on the UK.

The directors will endeavour to do all that they can be reasonably expected to do to protect the Company’s trading position and to develop the business in the interest of the Company’s shareholders, employees and stakeholders whilst seeking to minimise the areas of potential risk which may arise.

 

Approved by the Board on 20 April 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

.........................................
C J Avery
Director

   
     
 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2025

The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.

Directors of the company

The directors who held office during the year were as follows:

C J Avery

R A Jeffery

D R Pritchard

R Hupfield

I Weakford

N Yellop

D Howgate

N Brown (appointed 1 May 2025)

Financial instruments

Objectives and policies

The directors have reviewed the financial risk management objectives and policies of the company. They do not believe there to be significant risks in this area. The company does not enter into any hedging instruments as there are not believed to be any material exposures. It does not enter into any financial instruments for speculative purposes.

Price risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and cash flow risk

Appropriate trade terms are negotiated with suppliers and customers. Management reviews these terms, the relationships with suppliers and customers and manages any exposure on normal trade terms. The company prepares regular forecasts of cash flow and liquidity with which the directors assess the ongoing cash commitments of the company as part of a strict cash flow management program.

Research and development

The company is investing in R&D as it continues to investigate all opportunities that are open to it.

Disclosure of information to the auditors

Each director has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditors are aware of that information. The directors confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditors are unaware.

Approved by the Board on 20 April 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

.........................................
C J Avery
Director

   
     
 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;

make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

state whether applicable United Kingdom Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and

prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and in accordance with FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Hambleside Danelaw Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2025, which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, Statement of Comprehensive Income, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 December 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.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinion on other matter prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

the information given in the Strategic Report and Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

the Strategic Report and Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report and the Directors' Report.

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Hambleside Danelaw Limited

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of directors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page 5, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor Responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material mistatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material mistatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:

We identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussions with management and those charged with governance, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the company's sector and activities.

We focused on the specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements, including Companies Act 2006, FRS102, employment law and data protection.

We assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and consideration of breaches throughout our testing.

Identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.

We assessed the susceptibility of the company's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur by:

Making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected, and alleged fraud; and

Considering the internal controls in place to mitigate the risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations.

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:

agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation.

enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation or claims.

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Hambleside Danelaw Limited

There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from the financial statements, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission, or misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

......................................
James O'Rourke FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Blue Spire Limited, Statutory Auditor

Cawley Priory
South Pallant
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1SY

18 May 2026

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 December 2025

Note

2025
£

2024
£

Turnover

3

15,777,246

16,267,987

Cost of sales

 

(9,710,969)

(10,734,693)

Gross profit

 

6,066,277

5,533,294

Administrative expenses

 

(4,979,285)

(5,001,287)

Operating profit

4

1,086,992

532,007

Other interest receivable and similar income

5

9,221

32,912

Interest payable and similar expenses

6

(23,390)

(10,535)

   

(14,169)

22,377

Profit before tax

 

1,072,823

554,384

Tax on profit

10

(117,904)

35,968

Profit for the financial year

 

954,919

590,352

The above results were derived from continuing operations.

The company has no recognised gains or losses for the year other than the results above.

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Statement of Comprehensive Income for the Year Ended 31 December 2025

2025
£

2024
£

Profit for the year

954,919

590,352

Total comprehensive income for the year

954,919

590,352

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

(Registration number: 01252230)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2025

Note

2025
£

2024
£

Fixed assets

 

Intangible assets

11

150,007

103,358

Tangible assets

12

3,891,553

4,015,559

 

4,041,560

4,118,917

Current assets

 

Stocks

13

2,595,453

2,535,184

Debtors

14

2,820,788

3,465,777

Cash at bank and in hand

 

1,704,201

685,807

 

7,120,442

6,686,768

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

16

(2,728,781)

(2,770,861)

Net current assets

 

4,391,661

3,915,907

Total assets less current liabilities

 

8,433,221

8,034,824

Provisions for liabilities

17

(1,025,717)

(1,132,239)

Net assets

 

7,407,504

6,902,585

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

445,588

445,588

Retained earnings

6,961,916

6,456,997

Shareholders' funds

 

7,407,504

6,902,585

Approved and authorised by the Board on 20 April 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
 

.........................................
C J Avery
Director

.........................................
D Howgate
Director

 
     
 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Statement of Changes in Equity for the Year Ended 31 December 2025

Share capital
£

Retained earnings
£

Total
£

At 1 January 2025

445,588

6,456,997

6,902,585

Profit for the year

-

954,919

954,919

Dividends

-

(450,000)

(450,000)

At 31 December 2025

445,588

6,961,916

7,407,504

Share capital
£

Retained earnings
£

Total
£

At 1 January 2024

445,588

6,388,100

6,833,688

Profit for the year

-

590,352

590,352

Dividends

-

(521,455)

(521,455)

At 31 December 2024

445,588

6,456,997

6,902,585

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

1

General information

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

The address of its registered office is:
Long March
Daventry
NN11 4NR

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 20 April 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 were prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006'.

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.

Parent undertaking

Grinterley Limited holds 100% of the share capital of Hambleside Danelaw Limited therefore the company is included in the consolidated financial statements filed by Grinterley Limited and are exempt from preparing a Statement of Cashflows. Financial statements for Grinterley Limited can be found on Companies House.
Grinterley Limited's registered office is Cawley Priory, South Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1SY.

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.

Foreign currency transactions and balances

Foreign currency transactions are initially recognised by applying to the foreign currency amount the spot exchange rate between the functional currency and the foreign currency at the date of the transaction.

Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency at the balance sheet date are translated using the closing rate.

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 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.

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 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, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class

Depreciation method and rate

Plant and machinery

at variable rates on reducing balance and straight line

Fixtures and fittings

at variable rates on reducing balance and straight line

Improvements to leasehold buildings

2.5% - 25% reducing balance

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

Patents, concessions, licences, trade marks

Period of cover

Research & development

Estimated economic life of the project

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 receivables.

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

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.

The cost of finished goods and work in progress comprises direct materials and, where applicable, direct labour costs and those overheads that have been incurred in bringing the inventories to their present location and condition. At each reporting date, stocks are assessed for impairment. If stocks are impaired, the carrying amount is reduced to its selling price less costs to complete and sell; the impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss.

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 initially at the transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the profit and loss account over the period of the relevant borrowing.

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.

Provisions

Provisions are recognised when the company has an obligation at the reporting date as a result of a past event, it is probable that the company will be required to settle that obligation and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.

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 profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

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.

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

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.

Financial instruments

Financial instruments are classified and accounted for, according to the substance of the contractual arrangement, as financial assets, financial liabilities or equity instruments. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities. Where shares are issued, any component that creates a financial liability of the company is presented as a liability in the balance sheet. The corresponding dividends relating to the liability component are charged as interest expense in the profit and loss account.
 

3

Revenue

The analysis of the company's turnover for the year from continuing operations is as follows:

2025
£

2024
£

Sale of goods

15,777,246

16,267,987

The analysis of the company's turnover for the year by market is as follows:

2025
£

2024
£

UK

15,539,056

16,089,287

Europe

238,190

178,700

15,777,246

16,267,987

4

Operating profit

Arrived at after charging/(crediting)

2025
£

2024
£

Depreciation expense

417,784

345,679

Amortisation expense

17,033

53,245

Operating lease expense - plant and machinery

207,919

189,816

5

Other interest receivable and similar income

2025
£

2024
£

Interest income on bank deposits

5,203

27,778

Other finance income

4,018

5,134

9,221

32,912

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

6

Interest payable and similar expenses

2025
£

2024
£

Interest on obligations under finance leases and hire purchase contracts

188

657

Foreign exchange gains

23,202

9,878

23,390

10,535

7

Staff costs

The aggregate payroll costs (including directors' remuneration) were as follows:

2025
£

2024
£

Wages and salaries

3,208,815

3,160,825

Social security costs

392,053

322,176

Pension costs, defined contribution scheme

164,417

238,702

Other employee expense

58,671

52,289

3,823,956

3,773,992

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, analysed by category was as follows:

2025
No.

2024
No.

Production

44

43

Administration and support

41

41

85

84

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

8

Directors' remuneration

The directors' remuneration for the year was as follows:

2025
£

2024
£

Remuneration

347,520

334,353

In respect of the highest paid director:

2025
£

2024
£

Remuneration

136,691

134,030

9

Auditors' remuneration

2025
£

2024
£

Audit of the financial statements

11,500

11,500

Other fees to auditors

All other non-audit services

18,643

18,716


 

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

10

Taxation

Tax charged/(credited) in the profit and loss account

2025
£

2024
£

Current taxation

UK corporation tax

185,968

56,240

UK corporation tax adjustment to prior periods

(56,240)

(251,478)

129,728

(195,238)

Deferred taxation

Arising from origination and reversal of timing differences

(11,824)

159,270

Tax expense/(receipt) in the income statement

117,904

(35,968)

The tax on profit before tax for the year is the same as the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK (2024 - the same as the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK) of 25% (2024 - 25%).

The differences are reconciled below:

2025
£

2024
£

Profit before tax

1,072,823

554,384

Corporation tax at standard rate

268,206

138,596

Decrease in UK current tax from adjustment for prior periods

(56,240)

(251,478)

Tax increase/(decrease) from effect of capital allowances and depreciation

21,049

(49,577)

Decrease from effect of patent box adjustments

(72,467)

(41,397)

Effect of expense not deductible in determining taxable profit (tax loss)

16,773

30,447

Tax decrease arising from group relief

(17,812)

-

Deferred tax (credit)/expense relating to changes in tax rates or laws

(11,824)

159,270

Tax decrease from effect of adjustment in research and development tax credit

(29,740)

(17,668)

Other tax effects for reconciliation between accounting profit and tax expense

(41)

(4,161)

Total tax charge/(credit)

117,904

(35,968)

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

Deferred tax

Deferred tax assets and liabilities

2025

Asset
£

Liability
£

Accelerated capital allowances

-

827,051

-

827,051

2024

Asset
£

Liability
£

Accelerated capital allowances

-

838,875

-

838,875

11

Intangible assets

Goodwill
 £

Trademarks, patents and licenses
 £

Research and development
 £

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 January 2025

258,539

140,323

540,418

939,280

Additions acquired separately

-

-

63,681

63,681

At 31 December 2025

258,539

140,323

604,099

1,002,961

Amortisation

At 1 January 2025

258,539

140,323

437,060

835,922

Amortisation charge

-

-

17,032

17,032

At 31 December 2025

258,539

140,323

454,092

852,954

Carrying amount

At 31 December 2025

-

-

150,007

150,007

At 31 December 2024

-

-

103,358

103,358

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

12

Tangible assets

Land and buildings
£

Fixtures & fittings
 £

Plant & machinery
£

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 January 2025

607,870

1,144,417

6,086,575

7,838,862

Additions

-

24,085

269,693

293,778

At 31 December 2025

607,870

1,168,502

6,356,268

8,132,640

Depreciation

At 1 January 2025

263,606

632,037

2,927,660

3,823,303

Charge for the year

19,855

74,789

323,140

417,784

At 31 December 2025

283,461

706,826

3,250,800

4,241,087

Carrying amount

At 31 December 2025

324,409

461,676

3,105,468

3,891,553

At 31 December 2024

344,264

512,380

3,158,915

4,015,559

Included within the net book value of land and buildings above is £324,409(2024 - £344,265) in respect of long leasehold land and buildings.
 

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

Assets held under finance leases and hire purchase contracts

The net carrying amount of tangible assets includes the following amounts in respect of assets held under finance leases and hire purchase contracts:

2025
£

2024
£

Plant & machinery

-

20,596

   

13

Stocks

2025
£

2024
£

Raw materials and consumables

1,116,663

1,161,121

Work in progress

6,562

1,150

Finished goods and goods for resale

1,472,228

1,372,913

2,595,453

2,535,184

14

Debtors

Current

Note

2025
£

2024
£

Trade debtors

 

2,383,556

2,765,371

Amounts owed by related parties

23

-

6,529

Prepayments

 

437,232

437,221

Income tax asset

 

-

256,656

   

2,820,788

3,465,777

15

Cash and cash equivalents

2025
£

2024
£

Cash on hand

344

864

Cash at bank

701,138

104,190

Other cash and cash equivalents

1,002,719

580,753

1,704,201

685,807

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

16

Creditors

Note

2025
£

2024
£

Due within one year

 

Loans and borrowings

20

-

1,360

Trade creditors

 

1,450,704

1,727,248

Amounts due to related parties

23

6,181

-

Social security and other taxes

 

452,984

394,212

Outstanding defined contribution pension costs

 

100

271

Other payables

 

5,985

11,544

Accruals

 

735,228

636,226

Corporation tax liability

10

77,599

-

 

2,728,781

2,770,861

17

Provisions for liabilities

Dryseal guarantee reserve
£

Deferred tax
£

Daventry rent & dilapidations provision
£

Total
£

At 1 January 2025

10,000

838,875

283,364

1,132,239

Increase (decrease) in existing provisions

-

(11,824)

(94,698)

(106,522)

At 31 December 2025

10,000

827,051

188,666

1,025,717

Dryseal guarantee reserve:
The company has a legal responsibility for claims which arise from the guarantees issued by it in relation to the Dryseal Roofing System, including agreeing that the beneficiaries of such guarantees should be entitled to enforce them directly against the company.
Based on the companies historic claim experience the contingent liability is not considered material. The costs of any claims is charged directly to the companies profit and loss account. In addition the company has a guarantee claim reserve within the balance sheet of £10,000.

Daventry rent and dilapidations provision:
A provision of £98,666 is included within these financial statements in respect of the potential liability for dilapidations relating to the building occupied by the Company at Daventry at the end of its lease in 2031. An additional provision of £90,000 has been included for backdated rent as a result of the rent review carried out by the council at April 2025. It was agreed that the backdated rent would be paid over 2 years finishing in April 2027. This rent provision covers the remainder of the payments due to April 2027.
 

18

Pension and other schemes

Defined contribution pension scheme

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The pension cost charge for the year represents contributions payable by the company to the scheme and amounted to £164,417 (2024 - £238,702).

Contributions totalling £100 (2024 - £271) were payable to the scheme at the end of the year and are included in creditors.

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

19

Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

2025

2024

No.

£

No.

£

Equity ordinary shares of £1 each

445,588

445,588

445,588

445,588

       

20

Loans and borrowings

2025
£

2024
£

Current loans and borrowings

Hire purchase contracts

-

1,360

21

Obligations under leases and hire purchase contracts

Finance leases

The total of future minimum lease payments is as follows:

2025
£

2024
£

Not later than one year

-

1,359

 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

Operating leases

The total of future minimum lease payments is as follows:

2025
£

2024
£

Not later than one year

666,157

655,347

Later than one year and not later than five years

2,113,514

1,993,632

Later than five years

376,296

721,242

3,155,967

3,370,221

The amount of non-cancellable operating lease payments recognised as an expense during the year was £681,424 (2024 - £637,820).

22

Dividends

Final dividends paid

   

2025
£

 

2024
£

Final dividends of £0.4488 (2024 - £0.393) per each ordinary share

 

200,000

 

175,000

         

Interim dividends paid

   

2025
£

 

2024
£

Interim dividends of £0.561 (2024 - £0.778) per each ordinary share

 

250,000

 

346,455

         
 

Hambleside Danelaw Limited

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

23

Related party transactions

Summary of transactions with parent

The parent (Grinterley Limited) carried out management services and administration for the subsidiary (Hambleside Danelaw Limited) and received £510,000 (2024: £480,000) in return for these services.

During the year the company recharged costs to Grinterley Limited. At the year end Hambleside Danelaw Limited owed £6,181 to Grinterley Limited (2024: £6,529 was owed from Grinterley Limited).

 

24

Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The company's immediate parent is Grinterley Limited, incorporated in England and Wales.