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Registration number: 07800223

Wards Storage Ltd
Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 October 2025

Wards Storage Ltd

Contents

Company Information | 1
Balance Sheet | 2
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements | 3 to 7

Wards Storage Ltd

Company Information

Director | Christian Edward Ward

Registered office | Stone Barn, Pastures Farm Olney Road Yardley Hastings Northampton NN7 1HL

Accountants | Kaki Sher AIMS Accountants for Business38 Holford Way Luton Bedfordshire LU3 4EY

Wards Storage Ltd

(Registration number: 07800223)
Balance Sheet as at 31 October 2025

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Tangible assets | 4 | 437,914 | 1,805,243
Current assets |  |  |
Debtors | 5 | 302,325 | 63,653
Cash at bank and in hand |  | 640,597 | 6,621
|  | 942,922 | 70,274
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 6 | (203,845) | (230,589)
Net current assets/(liabilities) |  | 739,077 | (160,315)
Total assets less current liabilities |  | 1,176,991 | 1,644,928
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year | 6 | (231,601) | (473,276)
Provisions for liabilities |  | (70,600) | (41,770)
Net assets |  | 874,790 | 1,129,882
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital | 7 | 2 | 2
Revaluation reserve |  | - | 928,347
Retained earnings |  | 874,788 | 201,533
Shareholders' funds |  | 874,790 | 1,129,882

For the financial year ending 31 October 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 in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime and FRS 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard Applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’.

Approved and authorised by the director on 25 June 2026

......................................... Christian Edward Ward Director

Wards Storage Ltd

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

1 | General information

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

The address of its registered office is:
Stone Barn, Pastures Farm
Olney Road
Yardley Hastings
Northampton
NN7 1HL
United Kingdom

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the director on 25 June 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 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 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.

Wards Storage Ltd

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 October 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, except for revalued land and investment property where the tax rate that applies to the sale of the asset is used.

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
Motor vehicles | Straight line method at 25%
Plant and machinery | Straight line method at 10%
Office equipment | Straight line method at 25%

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.

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

Wards Storage Ltd

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

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.

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.

3 | Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including the director) during the year, was 3 (2024 - 14).

Wards Storage Ltd

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

4 | Tangible assets

| Land and buildings £ | Furniture, fittings and equipment £ | Motor vehicles £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 November 2024 | 1,500,000 | 196,705 | 370,531 | 2,067,236
Additions | - | 4,507 | 190,073 | 194,580
Disposals | (1,500,000) | - | - | (1,500,000)
At 31 October 2025 | - | 201,212 | 560,604 | 761,816
Depreciation
At 1 November 2024 | - | 104,920 | 157,073 | 261,993
Charge for the year | - | 19,121 | 42,788 | 61,909
At 31 October 2025 | - | 124,041 | 199,861 | 323,902
Carrying amount
At 31 October 2025 | - | 77,171 | 360,743 | 437,914
At 31 October 2024 | 1,500,000 | 91,785 | 213,458 | 1,805,243

Included within the net book value of land and buildings above is £Nil (2024 - £1,500,000) in respect of freehold land and buildings.

Revaluation

The fair value of the company's Land and buildings was revalued on 14 November 2024 by an independent valuer. . The name and qualification of the independent valuer are Paul Quy (Partner at Kirkby Diamond).
Had this class of asset been measured on a historical cost basis, the carrying amount would have been £Nil (2024 - £571,653).

5 | Debtors

Current | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Trade debtors | 35,675 | 38,446
Prepayments | 29,573 | 22,457
Other debtors | 237,077 | 2,750
| 302,325 | 63,653

Wards Storage Ltd

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

6 | Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due within one year |  |  |
Loans and borrowings |  | 76,392 | 95,800
Trade creditors |  | 63,103 | 35,871
Taxation and social security |  | 53,821 | 49,551
Other creditors |  | 10,529 | 49,367
|  | 203,845 | 230,589

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due after one year |  |  |
Loans and borrowings |  | 231,601 | 473,276

7 | Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

| 2025 | 2024
| No. | £ | No. | £
'A' ordinary share of £1 each | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
'B' ordinary share of £1 each | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 2