Company registration number: 11857820
Annual report and unaudited financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2026
for
Sprouts Childcare Limited
Pages for filing with the Registrar
Company registration number: 11857820
Sprouts Childcare Limited
Balance sheet
as at 31 March 2026
2026 2025
Note £ £ £ £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 4 6,169 5,716
6,169 5,716
Current assets
Debtors 5 57,907 35,903
Cash at bank and in hand 80,305 44,797
138,212 80,700
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
6 (81,235) (83,830)
Net current assets/(liabilities) 56,977 (3,130)
Total assets less current liabilities 63,146 2,586
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year
7 - (1,325)
Provisions for liabilities (1,172) (1,086)
NET ASSETS 61,974 175
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital 4 4
Profit and loss account 61,970 171
TOTAL EQUITY 61,974 175
The company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies for the year ended 31 March 2026.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities to comply with the Companies Act 2006 in respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements.
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Company registration number: 11857820
Sprouts Childcare Limited
Balance sheet - continued
as at 31 March 2026
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 Profit and loss account has not been delivered to the Registrar.
These financial statements were approved by the Board of directors and authorised for issue on 20 July 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
C Sherwood, Director
20 July 2026
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Sprouts Childcare Limited
Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2026
1 Company information
Sprouts Childcare Limited is a private company registered in England and Wales. Its registered number is 11857820. The company is limited by shares. Its registered office is Lytchett House, 13 Freeland Park, Poole, Dorset, BH16 6FA.
2 Accounting policies
Basis of preparing the financial statements
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. The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention.
Going concern
In preparing these financial statements, the directors have assessed whether there are any material uncertainties related to events or conditions that cast significant doubt upon the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. In making this assessment, the directors take into account all available information about the future which is at least 12 months from the date that the financial statements are authorised for issue.
The directors consider that the company has adequate resources to continue in business for the foreseeable future and that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.
Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, Value Added Tax and other sales taxes.
Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life or, if held under a finance lease, over the lease term, whichever is the shorter.
Plant and machinery etc.:
Plant and machinery - 25% straight line
Taxation
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred taxation. Tax is recognised in the Profit and loss account, 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.
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Sprouts Childcare Limited
Notes to the financial statements - continued
for the year ended 31 March 2026
2 Accounting policies - continued
Deferred taxation
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 been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date 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 probably that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.
Retirement benefits
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company’s pension scheme are charged to profit and loss in the period to which they relate.
3 Average number of employees
During the year the average number of employees was 55 (2025 - 42).
4 Tangible fixed assets
Plant and machinery etc.

£
Cost
At 1 April 2025 13,747
Additions 2,743
At 31 March 2026 16,490
Depreciation
At 1 April 2025 8,031
Charge for year 2,290
At 31 March 2026 10,321
Net book value
At 31 March 2026 6,169
At 31 March 2025 5,716
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Sprouts Childcare Limited
Notes to the financial statements - continued
for the year ended 31 March 2026
5 Debtors
2026 2025
£ £
Trade debtors - (1)
Directors' loan accounts 57,185 33,850
Other debtors 722 1,322
Prepayments and accrued income - 732
57,907 35,903
6 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2026 2025
£ £
Bank loans and overdrafts 2,543 10,980
Trade creditors - 20,000
Taxation 50,577 42,570
Accruals and deferred income 28,115 10,280
81,235 83,830
7 Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
2026 2025
£ £
Bank loans - 1,325
8 Advances, credit and guarantees granted to directors
The following advances and credits to directors subsisted during the years ended 31 March 2026 and 31 March 2025.
2026 2025
£ £
Balance outstanding at start of year 22,701 (26)
Amounts advanced 52,307 55,876
Amounts repaid (40,915) (33,149)
Balance outstanding at end of year 34,093 22,701
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Sprouts Childcare Limited
Notes to the financial statements - continued
for the year ended 31 March 2026
8 Advances, credit and guarantees granted to directors - continued
2026 2025
£ £
Balance outstanding at start of year 11,148 (25)
Amounts advanced 47,441 44,420
Amounts repaid (35,497) (33,247)
Balance outstanding at end of year 23,092 11,148
9 Share capital
The issued share capital of the company is as follows: 2 ordinary shares at the nominal value of £1 2 A ordinary shares at the nominal value of £1 All shares are fully paid. Each ordinary share carries one vote and is entitled to dividends.




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