| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| Unaudited Financial Statements |
| for the Period 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2025 |
| for |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| Unaudited Financial Statements |
| for the Period 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2025 |
| for |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited (Registered number: 03665335) |
| Contents of the Financial Statements |
| for the Period 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2025 |
| Page |
| Company Information | 1 |
| Chartered Certified Accountants' Report | 2 |
| Statement of Financial Position | 3 |
| Notes to the Financial Statements | 4 |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited |
| Company Information |
| for the Period 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2025 |
| Directors: |
| Registered office: |
| Registered number: |
| Accountants: |
| Chartered Certified Accountants |
| 19 Welling High Street |
| Welling |
| Kent |
| DA16 1TR |
| Chartered Certified Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors |
| on the Unaudited Financial Statements of |
| Notting Hill Copyrights 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 Statement of Financial Position. 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 Notting Hill Copyrights Limited for the period ended 31 March 2025 which comprise the Statement of comprehensive income, Statement of Financial Position 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 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at accaglobal.com/rulebook. |
| This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Notting Hill Copyrights 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 Notting Hill Copyrights Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Notting Hill Copyrights Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with the requirements of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants as detailed at |
| https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/technical-activities/technical-resources- |
| search/2009/october/factsheet-163-audit-exempt-companies.html. |
| To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report. |
| It is your duty to ensure that Notting Hill Copyrights 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 Notting Hill Copyrights Limited. You consider that Notting Hill Copyrights Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the period. |
| We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements of Notting Hill Copyrights 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. |
| Chartered Certified Accountants |
| 19 Welling High Street |
| Welling |
| Kent |
| DA16 1TR |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited (Registered number: 03665335) |
| Statement of Financial Position |
| 31 March 2025 |
| 31.3.25 | 31.12.23 |
| Notes | £ | £ |
| Current assets |
| Debtors | 4 |
| Investments | 5 |
| Creditors |
| Amounts falling due within one year | 6 |
| Net current assets/(liabilities) | ( |
) |
| Total assets less current liabilities | ( |
) |
| Capital and reserves |
| Called up share capital | 7 |
| Retained earnings | ( |
) | ( |
) |
| Shareholders' funds | ( |
) |
| 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 were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited (Registered number: 03665335) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements |
| for the Period 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2025 |
| 1. | Statutory information |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited is a |
| 2. | Accounting policies |
| Basis of preparing the financial statements |
| Going concern |
| The Notting Hill Music Group continue to work closely with Kobalt Music Services Limited who administer the Group's catalogue, seeking out and collecting royalties throughout most territories in the World excluding Japan and the Far East where we have long standing arrangements with Sony and Sony ATV. |
| The groups bankers, Coutts & Co., continue to be supportive of the Group in its ongoing development having considered the off balance sheet value of its catalogue. The entrance into the market of a number of heavily funded acquisition vehicles hungry for music copyrights continues to push the value of the catalogue ever upwards with comparable song catalogues now achieving multiples in excess of 20 times annual NPS. |
| The Directors continue to pursue their dual focus on extending retention of rights periods with existing clients to enhance catalogue value whilst adding a few high-quality new writers & producers to its roster each year to maintain growth in current hit royalty income. The policy is working brilliantly with records breaking income quarters regularly being posted. |
| There has been an increase in the volume of synchronisations placed in films, television and adverts and the public continue to initiate billions of streams from the Group's catalogue throughout the world from the likes of Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. With uplift in publishing income from streaming coming from the final Copyright Royalty Board ruling in the USA (an improvement of some 40% on previous streaming rates) the company is already seeing a dramatic uptick in streaming earnings which now forms the bedrock of our royalty income. |
| Turnover |
| Turnover is derived from the Company's principal activity and is accounted for on an earned basis. Royalties receivable are credited to profit or loss when earned. |
| Turnover is recognised to the extent that it is probable that the economic benefits will flow to the Company and the turnover can be reliably measured. Turnover is measured as the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. |
| Taxation |
| Taxation for the period comprises current tax. Tax is recognised in the Statement of comprehensive income, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity. |
| Current 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 statement of financial position date. |
| Foreign currencies |
| Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange ruling at the statement of financial position date. Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of transaction. Exchange differences are taken into account in arriving at the operating result. |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited (Registered number: 03665335) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
| for the Period 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2025 |
| 2. | Accounting policies - continued |
| Advances to artists |
| Advances to artists are expensed in the year they are incurred. |
| Valuation of investments |
| Investments relate to current copyright catalogues, which are valued at the lower of acquisition costs for the purchase of the catalogues or the recoverable amounts from royalty receipts. The royalty receipts are recognised on an earned basis. |
| 3. | Employees and directors |
| The average number of employees during the period was |
| 4. | Debtors: amounts falling due within one year |
| 31.3.25 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Amounts owed by group undertakings |
| Amounts due from group undertakings are unsecured, interest free and repayable on demand. |
| 5. | Current asset investments |
| 31.3.25 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Current copyright catalogues |
| 6. | Creditors: amounts falling due within one year |
| 31.3.25 | 31.12.23 |
| £ | £ |
| Trade creditors |
| Amounts owed to group undertakings |
| Amounts owed to group undertakings are unsecured, interest free and repayable on demand. |
| There is a general fixed charge over the Company's copyright catalogue. |
| The bank overdraft facility which was not utilised at the year end in the parent company, The Notting Hill Music Group Limited, is secured by way of a composite guarantee between Notting Hill Music (UK) limited, Notting Hill Copyrights Limited and The Notting Hill Music Group Limited and a mortgage Debenture by Notting Hill Music (UK) Limited dated 09 April 2010. |
| 7. | Called up share capital |
| Allotted, issued and fully paid: |
| Number: | Class: | Nominal | 31.3.25 | 31.12.23 |
| value: | £ | £ |
| Ordinary | 1 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Notting Hill Copyrights Limited (Registered number: 03665335) |
| Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
| for the Period 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2025 |
| 8. | Ultimate controlling party |
| The ultimate parent and controlling party is The Notting Hill Music Group Limited, a limited company registered in England and Wales. |