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REGISTERED NUMBER: 04627736 (England and Wales)






















Unaudited Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 July 2025

for

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited (Registered number: 04627736)






Contents of the Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 July 2025




Page

Company Information 1

Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Financial Statements 4

Chartered Accountants' Report 8

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited

Company Information
for the year ended 31 July 2025







DIRECTORS: R D Lister
Mrs L Lister
Miss H Lister
D W Lister
C D Lister





SECRETARY: D W Lister





REGISTERED OFFICE: 12 Webster Court
Carina Park
Warrington
Cheshire
WA5 8WD





REGISTERED NUMBER: 04627736 (England and Wales)





ACCOUNTANTS: Bennett Brooks & Co Limited
Chartered Accountants
St George's Court
Winnington Avenue
Northwich
Cheshire
CW8 4EE

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited (Registered number: 04627736)

Balance Sheet
31 July 2025

2025 2024
Notes £ £
FIXED ASSETS
Intangible assets 4 288,568 144,201
Tangible assets 5 5,079 1,116
293,647 145,317

CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 6 1,235,491 1,053,401
Cash at bank 340,314 361,376
1,575,805 1,414,777
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 7 (290,804 ) (150,032 )
NET CURRENT ASSETS 1,285,001 1,264,745
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

1,578,648

1,410,062

CREDITORS
Amounts falling due after more than one year 8 (2,000 ) (10,143 )
NET ASSETS 1,576,648 1,399,919

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 85 85
Capital redemption reserve 15 15
Retained earnings 1,576,548 1,399,819
1,576,648 1,399,919

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

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 July 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.

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited (Registered number: 04627736)

Balance Sheet - continued
31 July 2025


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 30 July 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:




D W Lister - Director



Mrs L Lister - Director


X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited (Registered number: 04627736)

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 July 2025

1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) 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.

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 historical cost convention.

Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes.

Intangible assets
Intangible assets are initially measured at cost. After initial recognition, intangible assets are measured at cost less any accumulated amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses.

R&D costs are being amortised evenly over their estimated useful life of five years.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Plant and machinery etc - 25% on reducing balance

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.

Hire purchase and leasing commitments
Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

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.

3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 8 (2024 - 7 ) .

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited (Registered number: 04627736)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the year ended 31 July 2025

4. INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Other
intangible
assets
£
COST
At 1 August 2024 872,746
Additions 225,521
At 31 July 2025 1,098,267
AMORTISATION
At 1 August 2024 728,545
Charge for year 81,154
At 31 July 2025 809,699
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 July 2025 288,568
At 31 July 2024 144,201

5. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Plant and
machinery
etc
£
COST
At 1 August 2024 16,992
Additions 5,656
At 31 July 2025 22,648
DEPRECIATION
At 1 August 2024 15,876
Charge for year 1,693
At 31 July 2025 17,569
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 July 2025 5,079
At 31 July 2024 1,116

6. DEBTORS
2025 2024
£ £
Amounts falling due within one year:
Trade debtors 174,256 188,577
Other debtors 358,104 278,317
532,360 466,894

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited (Registered number: 04627736)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the year ended 31 July 2025

6. DEBTORS - continued
2025 2024
£ £
Amounts falling due after more than one year:
Amounts owed by participating interests 618,911 535,787
Other debtors 84,220 50,720
703,131 586,507

Aggregate amounts 1,235,491 1,053,401

7. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2025 2024
£ £
Bank loans and overdrafts 8,035 21,628
Trade creditors 36,396 39,065
Taxation and social security 185,953 62,287
Other creditors 60,420 27,052
290,804 150,032

8. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR
2025 2024
£ £
Bank loans 2,000 10,143

9. LEASING AGREEMENTS

Minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases fall due as follows:
2025 2024
£ £
Within one year 42,267 5,750
Between one and five years 129,350 -
171,617 5,750

10. DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES

The following advances and credits to directors subsisted during the years ended 31 July 2025 and 31 July 2024:

2025 2024
£ £
R D Lister
Balance outstanding at start of year 5,868 5,868
Amounts repaid (5,868 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year - 5,868

Mrs L Lister
Balance outstanding at start of year 18,473 7,797
Amounts advanced 4,071 10,676
Amounts repaid (3,891 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year 18,653 18,473

X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
Limited (Registered number: 04627736)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the year ended 31 July 2025

10. DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES - continued

Miss H Lister
Balance outstanding at start of year 7,305 -
Amounts advanced - 7,305
Amounts repaid (7,305 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year - 7,305

D W Lister
Balance outstanding at start of year 143,374 124,784
Amounts advanced 20,827 18,590
Amounts repaid (2,951 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year 161,250 143,374

C D Lister
Balance outstanding at start of year 59,525 60,066
Amounts advanced 10,113 -
Amounts repaid - (541 )
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year 69,638 59,525

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors
on the Unaudited Financial Statements of
X-Press Legal Services (Franchising)
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 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 X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) Limited for the year ended 31 July 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 X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) 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 X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) 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 X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) Limited and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) 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 X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) Limited. You consider that X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) 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 X-Press Legal Services (Franchising) 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.






Bennett Brooks & Co Limited
Chartered Accountants
St George's Court
Winnington Avenue
Northwich
Cheshire
CW8 4EE


30 July 2026