The directors present the strategic report for the year ended 31 January 2026.

The residential rental sector (low risk) is expected to remain strong, with the impact of higher interest rates, inflation and reduction of disposable income, affecting affordability for private buyers.

The overall size and diversity of the portfolio has given stability and protection from changes in market values and rent received.

Public Houses / Commercial properties are leased (not managed) which has given us protection from the recruitment challenges experienced in many sectors.

Commercial properties may have to be adapted in some instances i.e. large office buildings, due to the continuing expectation of some for working from home.

The cost of living crisis (energy costs etc) has encouraged a generally less transient lifestyle amongst tenants & this has therefore had a positive effect on turnover.

The Directors therefore are confident in anticipating increased levels of activity in the forthcoming year, returning sizable profits despite ongoing investment and that the balance sheet net asset position therefore is well protected.

The groups principal risks and uncertainties are:

- The general economic climate and the ability of tenants to maintain rental agreements.

- Operational risks associated with technology & high profile cyberattacks/ransomware software.

- Recruitment challenges posed in an uncertain employment market.

The key financial performance indicators used by the directors are rents received of £2,550,493 (2025: £2,454,148), profit before tax of £1,298,005 (2025: £530,486) and valuation of investment properties at £38,342,450 (2025: £37,882,450).

The Elizabeth Group Board have considered the requirements of Section 172 (1) reporting in the preparation of these financial statements. In making any key decision, the Board will always take into consideration the following factors (amongst others):

a) the likely consequences of any decision in the short, mid, and long term,    

b) the interests of the company's employees are measured and considered,    

c) the need to foster the company's business relationships with suppliers, customers, and any interaction with third party business partners,    

d) the impact of the company's operations on the local community and the general environment,    

e) the desirability of the company and its officers maintaining a strong reputation for high standards of business conduct and ethics,    

f) the need to act fairly and without favour, and to be seen to do so, with all employees within the Group of companies.    

The Board consider key decisions in the context of the above areas and record how these decisions have been made. Key decisions are defined as those listed as principal Agenda items, at a Board meeting, held from time to time.

The Board meet regularly throughout the year, both in person when appropriate, but also by 'Teams Meeting'. Therefore, all decisions are discussed in depth and considerations and conclusions recorded in the minutes. These decisions are also referenced against the business' codes of conduct and ethics, and in line with the industry recognised Trade Body's guidelines (in accordance with current EU and UK requirements), thus enabling the Directors to comply with their duties under S172 of the Companies Act 2006.

Our team are critical to the delivery of a positive customer experience across all aspects of our business. This has been recognised for a long period of time but has been brought more into focus because of the pandemic.

The business has significantly increased engagement with team members, through multiple communication channels including adopting new technology platforms to allow staff feedback via the Group HR system that all employees have access to, as well as frequent business updates and regular team meetings. Wherein not only are business decisions influenced, but where the contribution of each team member is recognised and encouraged.

The cascading of business plans and initiatives are tabled, and the increased value of 'listening sessions' are at the forefront to focus on increased health and wellbeing support for team members.

The Group encourages where possible, internal promotions and for staff to move between resorts, which increases an employee's responsibilities and experience alongside enhancing their career.

We recognise that our rental customers have made a substantial financial commitment during their tenure, and we encourage their feedback through exit surveys and online review platforms.

Our Directors

Our Directors have been the owners of the Group and business for over 10 years and their experience and industry knowledge are critical to shaping the future direction of their company. Their views are of paramount importance and value in all decision making. Their initiatives and considerations are tabled to the Board and create the backbone for all future strategic and directional decision making.

Our Suppliers

Our suppliers play a key part in enabling us to deliver a leading level of product and service to our customers. We seek to choose the best products and services to meet our requirements, and then develop effective, long-term relationships with the suppliers to create strong and enduring value over time. We review supplier performance regularly and have a formal cycle of re-tendering key supply contracts in place to ensure that products and services continue to be delivered in line with expectations for both our business and our customers.

We also ensure that all suppliers are engaged in discussing their own corporate and social responsibilities with our management team, on a regular basis, and we seek synergy in their outlook and future planning. We seek to acquire local produce and materials, and have local supplier preference to national contracts, albeit that can in turn mean at a greater cost.

The Board and management are committed to ensuring that our operations are an integral part of the communities in which they are sited. We recognise our responsibilities in that regard and seek to ensure that we also support the community by sourcing produce locally and supporting local businesses and charities where appropriate with the general management team encouraged to engage directly with local community needs and local authorities.

The Board are also committed to ensuring that our business closely considers its impact on the environment in all its operations and continues to work closely with local planning authorities as well as environmental agencies and service providers in this regard.

The Board believes culture and ethos to be key in achieving long-term success and growth. Our high standards of business conduct are the direct result of a culture that focuses not only on achieving high levels of performance and maximising efficiency but doing so in a way that is sustainable and reflects our Directors' family values.

On behalf of the board

The directors present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 January 2026.

The principal activity of the group in the year under review was that of holding investment property.

The results for the year are set out on page 9.

An interim dividend of £360,000 per share on the Ordinary A £0.10 shares was paid throughout the year to 31 January 2026. The directors recommend that no final dividend be paid on these shares.

No interim dividends were paid on the Ordinary B £0.10 shares. The directors recommend that no final dividend be paid on these shares.

The total distribution of dividends for the year ended 31 January 2026 will be £360,000.

The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:

The company aims to minimise financial risk in its operations by the identification and mitigation of key risk areas. The key areas of risk identified by the directors are interest rate risk and liquidity risk.

Where appropriate the directors will consider fixing of interest rates, otherwise floating rate facilities are generally used.

Liquidity is monitored on a weekly basis by reference to the level of rental income. Periodically the directors prepare profit and cashflow forecasts.

Applications for employment by disabled persons are always fully considered, bearing in mind the aptitudes of the applicant concerned. In the event of members of staff becoming disabled, every effort is made to ensure that their employment within the group continues and that the appropriate training is arranged. It is the policy of the group that the training, career development and promotion of disabled persons should, as far as possible, be identical to that of other employees.

The group continued its practice of keeping employees informed of matters affecting them as employees and the financial economic factors affecting the performance of the group.

This is achieved through consultations with employees and a newsletter.

The auditors, Xeinadin Audit Limited, will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

As the group has not consumed more than 40,000 kWh of energy in this reporting period, it qualifies as a low energy user under the Regulations and is not required to report on its emissions, energy consumption or energy efficiency activities.

The directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the group and company, and of the profit or loss of the group for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

• state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the group and company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the group’s and company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the group and company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the group and company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

So far as each person who was a director at the date of approving this report is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the auditor of the company is unaware. Additionally, the directors individually have taken all the necessary steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of all relevant audit information and to establish that the auditor of the company is aware of that information.

We have audited the financial statements of Elizabeth Holdings Plc (the 'parent company') and its subsidiaries (the 'group') for the year ended 31 January 2026 which comprise the group statement of comprehensive income, the group balance sheet, the company balance sheet, the group statement of changes in equity, the company statement of changes in equity, the group statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the group's and the parent company's affairs as at 31 January 2026 and of the group's profit for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group and parent company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group's and parent company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:

• The information given in the strategic report and the directors' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

• The strategic report and the directors' report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the group and the parent company and their environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the strategic report or the directors' report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

• adequate accounting records have not been kept by the parent company, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

• the parent company financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

As explained more fully in the directors' responsibilities statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the parent company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the parent company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below.

We gained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the company and the industry in which it operates and considered the risk of the company of not complying with such laws and regulations, including fraud, where non-compliance could have a material impact on the financial statements. This included those regulations directly related to the financial statements, including financial reporting and tax legislation. In relation to the industry, this included health and safety and employment legislation.

The risks were discussed with the audit team and we remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit. We carried out specific procedures to address the risks identified as follows:

• Review of the control environment

• Meeting key personal responsible for specific functions relating to laws and regulations

• Review of legal fees incurred

• Agreeing the financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation

• Reviewing the key accounting policies and estimates

To address the risk of management override of controls, we carried out testing of journal entries and other adjustments for appropriateness and evaluated the business rationale of significant transactions outside of the normal course of business.

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion and misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the parent company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the parent company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the parent company and the parent company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

As permitted by section 408 of the Companies Act 2006, the company has not presented its own profit and loss account and related notes. The company’s profit for the year was £360,000 (2025 - £360,000 profit).

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

Elizabeth Holdings Plc ("the company") is a public limited company domiciled and incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Merchant House, 33 Fore Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England IP4 1JL..

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, [modified to include the revaluation of freehold properties and to include investment properties and certain financial instruments at fair value]. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

The company is a qualifying entity for the purposes of FRS 102, being a member of a group where the parent of that group prepares publicly available consolidated financial statements, including this company, which are intended to give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the group. The company has therefore taken advantage of exemptions from the following disclosure requirements for parent company information presented within the consolidated financial statements:

• Section 7 ‘Statement of Cash Flows’: Presentation of a statement of cash flow and related notes and disclosures;

• Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instrument Issues: Interest income/expense and net gains/losses for financial instruments not measured at fair value; basis of determining fair values; details of collateral, loan defaults or breaches, details of hedges, hedging fair value changes recognised in profit or loss and in other comprehensive income;

• Section 26 ‘Share based Payment’: Share-based payment expense charged to profit or loss, reconciliation of opening and closing number and weighted average exercise price of share options, how the fair value of options granted was measured, measurement and carrying amount of liabilities for cash-settled share-based payments, explanation of modifications to arrangements;

• Section 33 ‘Related Party Disclosures’: Compensation for key management personnel.

The financial statements consolidate the accounts of Elizabeth Holdings Plc and all of its subsidiary undertakings.

When the group was restructured, so that Elizabeth Holdings Plc became the new ultimate parent undertaking of the group after acquiring the whole of the issued share capital of Ryan Elizabeth Holdings Plc by a share for share exchange, the transaction was accounted for using merger accounting. All previous acquisitions by the group have been accounted for using acquisition accounting.

Elizabeth Inns Limited and Q Ball Lease Company Limited are only 50% owned by Elizabeth Holdings Plc. Given the other 50% is owned by the ultimate controlling party, the subsidiary is fully consolidated.

All of the subsidiary undertakings' year ends are coterminous and uniform accounting policies are applied throughout the group.

At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

Turnover is measured at the fair value of the rent and services consideration received or receivable net of VAT and trade discounts.

Where a premium is charged on the granting of a lease such income is taken to the profit and loss account over the expected length of the lease.

Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.

Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:

The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is recognised in the profit and loss account.

Properties whose fair value can be measured reliably are held under the revaluation model and are carried at a revalued amount, being their fair value at the date of valuation less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses. The fair value of the land and buildings is usually considered to be their market value.

Revaluation gains and losses are recognised in other comprehensive income and accumulated in equity, except to the extent that a revaluation gain reverses a revaluation loss previously recognised in profit or loss or a revaluation loss exceeds the accumulated revaluation gains recognised in equity; such gains and loss are recognised in profit and loss.

Investment property, which is property held to earn rentals and/or for capital appreciation, is initially recognised at cost, which includes the purchase cost and any directly attributable expenditure. Subsequently it is measured at fair value at the reporting end date. Changes in fair value are recognised in profit and loss.

Equity investments are measured at fair value through profit or loss, except for those equity investments that are not publicly traded and whose fair value cannot otherwise be measured reliably, which are recognised at cost less impairment until a reliable measure of fair value becomes available.

In the parent company financial statements, investments in subsidiaries, associates and jointly controlled entities are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost less any accumulated impairment losses.

The group has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

Financial instruments are recognised in the group's balance sheet when the group becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amounts presented in the financial statements when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Other financial assets, including investments in equity instruments which are not subsidiaries, associates or joint ventures, are initially measured at fair value, which is normally the transaction price. Such assets are subsequently carried at fair value and the changes in fair value are recognised in profit or loss, except that investments in equity instruments that are not publicly traded and whose fair values cannot be measured reliably are measured at cost less impairment.

Financial assets, other than those held at fair value through profit and loss, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date.

Financial assets are impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the financial asset, the estimated future cash flows have been affected. If an asset is impaired, the impairment loss is the difference between the carrying amount and the present value of the estimated cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.

If there is a decrease in the impairment loss arising from an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the impairment is reversed. The reversal is such that the current carrying amount does not exceed what the carrying amount would have been, had the impairment not previously been recognised. The impairment reversal is recognised in profit or loss.

Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the group transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party.

Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the group after deducting all of its liabilities.

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Derivatives, including interest rate swaps and forward foreign exchange contracts, are not basic financial instruments. Derivatives are initially recognised at fair value on the date a derivative contract is entered into and are subsequently re-measured at their fair value. Changes in the fair value of derivatives are recognised in profit or loss in finance costs or finance income as appropriate, unless hedge accounting is applied and the hedge is a cash flow hedge.

Debt instruments that do not meet the conditions in FRS 102 paragraph 11.9 are subsequently measured at fair value through profit or loss. Debt instruments may be designated as being measured at fair value through profit or loss to eliminate or reduce an accounting mismatch or if the instruments are measured and their performance evaluated on a fair value basis in accordance with a documented risk management or investment strategy.

Financial liabilities are derecognised when the group's contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.

The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.

The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The group’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.

Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.

The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset if, and only if, there is a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.

The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of the cost of stock or fixed assets.

Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.

In the application of the group’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the group and company during the year was:

Their aggregate remuneration comprised:

The actual charge for the year can be reconciled to the expected charge for the year based on the profit or loss and the standard rate of tax as follows:

The carrying value of land and buildings comprises:

The freehold properties were revalued on a fair value basis as at 31 January 2026 by Countrywide, Chartered Surveyors. In the opinion of the directors that value is not materially different as at the balance sheet date.

The revaluation surplus is disclosed in note 28.

Freehold properties are carried at valuation. If the assets were measured using the cost model, the carrying amounts would be as follows:

The investment properties were revalued on a fair value basis by Countrywide, Chartered Surveyors. Approximately one third of properties are revalued as at each balance sheet date. Thus all investment properties are revalued at least once in a three year period. At the year end the directors assess those properties valued in prior years to ensure that the value shown has not materially changed.

Revaluation gains of £675,000 (2025: £284,750) have been included in profit and loss for the year and subsequently transferred to the fair value reserve.

Investment properties of £23,215,000 (2025: £23,010,000) are pledged as security for liabilities.

If fixed asset investments had not been revalued they would have been included at the following historical cost:

Fixed asset investments were valued on a fair value basis basis on 31 January 2026 by Mr R W Lang, a director.

Details of the company's subsidiaries at 31 January 2026 are as follows:

Financial assets measured at amortised cost comprise trade and other receivables, loans and amounts receivable from related undertakings.

Financial assets measured at fair value through profit and loss comprise of other listed investments.

Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost comprise long term loans, trade and other creditors and amounts payable to related undertakings.

The long-term loans are secured by fixed charges over the group's investment properties as indicated on note 16.

The group currently owes two loan balances.

Loan 1 has a total balance due at the balance sheet date of £2,577,131 (2025: £2,676,987). The loan term is five years with a maturity date of 29 April 2026. The interest rate applied to the loan is at a margin of 3% fixed for a fixed rate period, changing to a floating rate at the end of the period. The loan is interest only with interest payments made quarterly and a capital repayable at the end of the term. Interest in the year on this loan amounted to £79,103 (2025: £96,935).

Loan 2 has a total balance due at the balance sheet date of £3,754,237 (2025: £3,912,866). The loan term is five years with a maturity date of 29 April 2026. The interest rate applied to the loan is at a margin of 3% fixed for a fixed rate period, changing to a floating rate at the end of the period. The loan is interest only with interest payments made quarterly and a capital repayable at the end of the term. Interest in the year on this loan amounted to £138,018 (2025: £144,113).

Both loans are part of the same financial covenants group.

The following are the major deferred tax liabilities and assets recognised by the group and company, and movements thereon:

A defined contribution pension scheme is operated for all qualifying employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the group in an independently administered fund.

Fair value reserve relates to investment property revaluations, shown net of deferred tax.

The remuneration of key management personnel is as follows.

The following amounts were outstanding at the reporting end date:

The following amounts were outstanding at the reporting end date:

In addition to the above, included within debtors due within one year is £2,761,712 (2025: £2,205,866) due from the ultimate beneficial owner. The loan is unsecured, interest-bearing at the HMRC approved rate, and has no formal repayment terms.

The controlling party is R W Cattermole.