REGISTERED NUMBER: 01389757 (England and Wales)

UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

FOR

WOODLANDS SCHOOLS LIMITED

Page

Company Information

1

Balance Sheet

2

Notes to the Financial Statements

3

Chartered Accountants' Report

7

DIRECTORS:

J K Lewis

B K Lewis

C A Lewis

L Lewis

REGISTERED OFFICE:

428 Rayleigh Road

Hutton

Essex

CM13 1SD

REGISTERED NUMBER:

01389757 (England and Wales)

ACCOUNTANTS:

THP Limited

Chartered Accountants

34-40 High Street

Wanstead

London

E11 2RJ

FIXED ASSETS

Tangible assets

5

1,922,012

2,346,427

Investments

6

1

1

1,922,013

2,346,428

CURRENT ASSETS

Debtors

7

1,079,899

1,560,615

Cash at bank

48,968

540,764

1,128,867

2,101,379

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

8

2,017,666

2,784,818

NET CURRENT LIABILITIES

(888,799

)

(683,439

)

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES

1,033,214

1,662,989

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due after more than one year

9

(416,622

)

(508,834

)

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES

(16,324

)

(16,324

)

NET ASSETS

600,268

1,137,831

CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Called up share capital

75,000

75,000

Share premium

1,084,076

1,084,076

Revaluation reserve

12

36,206

36,206

Capital redemption reserve

86

86

Retained earnings

(595,100

)

(57,537

)

SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS

600,268

1,137,831

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

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 August 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 Income Statement has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 28 May 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:

J K Lewis - Director

1.	STATUTORY INFORMATION

Woodlands Schools Limited 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.

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

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.

Revenue recognition

Revenue represents net invoiced school fees and related income, less a deferral for fees received in advance.

School fee income is recognised in the same accounting period as the relevant term to which they relate.

Tangible fixed assets

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write of the assets over their estimated useful lives.

Freehold Land and Buildings

Over 6 - 50 years

Fixtures and Fittings

Over 3 - 50 years

Computer Equipment

Over 5 - 20 years

Motor Vehicles

Over 6 years

Freehold land is not depreciated.

Investments in subsidiaries

Investments in subsidiary undertakings are recognised at cost.

Taxation

Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, 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.

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.

4.	EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 92 (2024 - 93 ) .

5.	TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Freehold

Fixtures

land and

and

Motor

Computer

buildings

fittings

vehicles

equipment

Totals

£

£

£

£

£

COST

At 1 September 2024

3,073,470

1,458,989

350,379

707,070

5,589,908

Additions

-

3,994

19,776

2,706

26,476

Disposals

-

-

(226,775

)

-

(226,775

)

At 31 August 2025

3,073,470

1,462,983

143,380

709,776

5,389,609

DEPRECIATION

At 1 September 2024

1,410,967

1,294,077

58,395

480,042

3,243,481

Charge for year

159,874

52,736

7,651

46,006

266,267

Eliminated on disposal

-

-

(42,151

)

-

(42,151

)

At 31 August 2025

1,570,841

1,346,813

23,895

526,048

3,467,597

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31 August 2025

1,502,629

116,170

119,485

183,728

1,922,012

At 31 August 2024

1,662,503

164,912

291,984

227,028

2,346,427

Included in cost of land and buildings is freehold land of £ 326,301 (2024 - £ 326,301 ) which is not depreciated.

Included in Freehold Land and Buildings is property that was revalued at open market value on 24 July 1992 at £657,212 (including subsequent additions at cost). On transition to FRS102 the company has used this valuation as deemed cost of the asset.

6.	FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS

Shares in

group

undertakings

£

COST

At 1 September 2024

and 31 August 2025

1

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31 August 2025

1

At 31 August 2024

1

7.

DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

2025

2024

£

£

Trade debtors

578,197

888,453

Amounts owed by group undertakings

16,443

14,891

Other debtors

5,175

-

Directors' current accounts

281,092

365,948

Corporation tax recoverable

104,575

104,575

Prepayments and accrued income

94,417

186,748

1,079,899

1,560,615

8.

CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

2025

2024

£

£

Hire purchase contracts (see note 10)

23,459

20,759

Trade creditors

344,385

1,144,228

Corporation tax

-

37,225

Social security and other taxes

99,715

85,599

VAT

121,378

-

Accruals and deferred income

1,428,729

1,497,007

2,017,666

2,784,818

9.

CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR

2025

2024

£

£

Hire purchase contracts (see note 10)

71,048

222,836

Director's loan

76,476

-

Long term deposits held

269,098

285,998

416,622

508,834

The director's loan account of J K Lewis is secured by way of a fixed and floating charge over the assets of the company.

10.	LEASING AGREEMENTS

Minimum lease payments fall due as follows:

Hire purchase

contracts

2025

2024

£

£

Net obligations repayable:

Within one year

23,459

20,759

Between one and five years

71,048

222,836

94,507

243,595

Non-cancellable

operating leases

2025

2024

£

£

Within one year

60,858

57,715

Between one and five years

54,392

50,236

115,250

107,951

The commitments relate to vehicles and IT equipment.

11.	SECURED DEBTS

Liabilities under hire purchase agreements are secured on the assets to which they relate.

12.

RESERVES

Revaluation

reserve

£

At 1 September 2024

and 31 August 2025

36,206

13.	DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES

During the year, amounts of £nil (2024: £110,299) were advanced to the former Director B K Lewis. Amounts of £28,760 were repaid in the year. At the year end a balance £281,093 (2024: £309,853) was due to the company. This was fully repaid in November 2025.

During the previous year £56,095 was advanced to the Director J K Lewis. During the year the Director loaned the Company a net figure of £132,571 and at the year end was owed £76,476 by the Company.

14.	POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS

Subsequent to the year end the company closed its school site at Great Warley.

15.	ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The ultimate controlling party is J K Lewis by virtue of his majority shareholding.

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 and certain other primary statements and the Report of the Directors are not required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies.

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of Woodlands Schools Limited for the year ended 31 August 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 us.

As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed within the ICAEW's regulations and guidance at http://www.icaew.com/en/membership/regulations-standards-and-guidance.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Woodlands Schools Limited, as a body, in accordance with our terms of engagement. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of Woodlands Schools Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Woodlands Schools Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Woodlands Schools Limited and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Woodlands Schools 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 loss of Woodlands Schools Limited. You consider that Woodlands Schools Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

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

THP Limited

Chartered Accountants

34-40 High Street

Wanstead

London

E11 2RJ

28 May 2026