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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
CONTENTS
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
On 2 April 2025 the group disposed of its subsidiary undertakings, Furrows Limited and Security Investments (Industrial) Limited. This was to facilitate the transfer of the controlling interest of those companies to an employee ownership trust set up for the benefit of employees in the business. Furrows has always believed in the power of being firmly rooted in the community, working to create the best possible service for our customers. In our opinion, passing the controlling interest of the business to an employee ownership trust preserves and promotes all that makes the business special, in an exciting new way, for the future.
Subsequent to the disposal of Furrows Limited and Security Investments (Industrial) Limited the Company and Group has continued to operate its property investment portfolio. In the year to 31 December 2025 the Group generated an operating profit of £1.6m (2024: £4.2m) from turnover of £33.2m (2024: £117m). As at 31 December 2025 the Group had net assets of £22.6m (2024: £36.3m).
The business activities, financial condition and trading results are subject to risk factors and uncertainties that the Directors keep under review. The Directors are of the opinion that principal risks and uncertainties facing the Group relate to general economic and market conditions, which influence cost, pricing and the demand for its products and services as well as supply.
Economic risks and uncertainties brought about by the wider economic and geopolitical environment are also closely monitored by the Directors.
The Directors consider that the Group is well placed to continue in line with its business strategy.
The Group measures its financial performance and broader position by reference to key performance indicators. The key performance indicators used by the business include those relating to turnover, operating profit and net assets as referenced in the business review above.
The Group uses a range of other KPI's to monitor and measure performance within the business on a regular basis. These cover the whole business and reflect its evolving nature. KPI’s cover diverse areas of the business such as customer service and productivity.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
The board of directors consider, both individually and together, that they have acted in a way they consider, in good faith, would be most likely to promote the success of the Company for the benefit of its members as a whole (having regard to the stakeholders and matters set out in s172(1)(a) (f) of the Act) in the decisions taken during the year ended 31 December 2025.
Decision making at the Board
The Directors meet on a regular basis. When making decisions which are in the best interests of the Company and the Group they consider any potential impacts and risks for our customers, employees (both current and former employees, by reference to the Furrows pension Scheme, and as a future significant employer within our communities) and other stakeholders including our partners, suppliers, the communities in which we operate, and serve, and the environment and how they are to be managed.
Stakeholders
Our key stakeholders are our employees, customers, partners, suppliers, finance providers and the communities in which we operate. We take a current and future view in relation to all such stakeholders.
Sustainability
Furrows is a family business in its widest sense, and we consider the “Furrows Family” to be of great significance. We are proud that it has now provided employment, training and financial reward for its employees and owners and benefits for a wide group of stakeholders for over 100 years. When making business decisions we consider the needs of our current and future customers, employees, suppliers and the communities in which we operate to ensure we are conducting all our business relationships with integrity, as well as ongoing responsibilities for previous staff. The continued sustainability of the Company and the wider Group is paramount in our decision making, particularly in response to the challenging economic conditions and the Coronavirus pandemic.
Employees
Our people are fundamental to the delivery of our business plans. We aim to be a responsible employer in our approach to the pay and benefits our people receive. The health, safety and well being of our team is one of our primary considerations in the way we do business. We place considerable value on the involvement of our employees and continue to keep them informed on matters affecting them.
Customers
Engagement with customers who form the community we serve is key to our success. We are proud of our award-winning customer service and ensure that this is maintained through customer satisfaction surveys, social media, focus group meetings and a dedicated customer service team.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
Finance Providers
The Company seeks to make information available to financial stakeholders, including our relationship bank with whom we are proud to have had a strong relationship for over 100 years, as part of information provided about and by the Company and the Group.
Communities and environment
The Company and the Group aim to use their resources to create positive change for the communities and the environment in which we operate.
Business Conduct
The Board of Directors always strive to behave responsibly and ensure that the management of the Company and the Group operate the business in a responsible manner and with high standards of business conduct and governance.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
The Directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.
The Directors are responsible for preparing the Group strategic report, the Directors' report and the consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
In preparing these financial statements, the Directors are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the Group's financial statements 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 will continue in business.
The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and the Group and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The profit for the year, after taxation, amounted to £1,137,252 (2024 - £2,481,614).
Dividends of £3,041,519 were declared during the year (2024: £Nil).
The Directors who served during the year were:
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
The Group's operations expose it to a variety of financial risks that include credit risk, liquidity risk and interest rate risk. The Group has in place a risk management programme that seeks to limit the adverse effects on the financial performance of the Group by monitoring levels of debt finance and the related finance costs.
Credit risk - The Group has implemented policies that require appropriate credit checks on potential customers where credit sales are made. Liquidity risk - The Group actively maintains a mixture of long term and short term debt finance that is designed to ensure that it has sufficient available funds for operations and any planned expansions. Interest rate cash flow risk - The Group has interest bearing liabilities in the form of bank and financing facilities. Interest cash flows are monitored on a regular basis and interest rates are agreed at fixed rates where possible to ensure the certainty of future interest cash flows.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
This section includes our mandatory reporting of energy and greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, pursuant to the Companies (Directors’ Report) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Energy and Carbon Report) Regulations 2018, implementing the government’s Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) policy.
Our methodology to calculate our greenhouse gas emissions is based on the 'Environmental Reporting Guidelines: Including streamlined energy and carbon reporting guidance (March 2019)’, using DESNZ's 2024 and 2025 conversion factors as appropriate. In some cases, consumption has been extrapolated from available data or direct comparison made to a comparable period.
We report using a financial control approach to define our organisational boundary. We have reported all material emission sources required by the regulations for which we deem ourselves to be responsible and have maintained records of all source data and calculations. During the reporting period, we’ve invested £11k in solar panels at Telford. Additionally, our energy management programme is ongoing at a number of sites, including monitoring and targeted reporting of energy consumption on a daily basis. Through the service provided by our energy consultants, the energy management programme we run enables us to identify and address any consumption issues as and when they arrive, allowing us to eliminate unnecessary energy waste. The table below includes total energy consumption (reported as kWh) and greenhouse gas emissions for the sources required by the regulations, along with our intensity ratio.
Disclosure of engagement with employees, suppliers, customers and others are included in the Strategic Report.
Future developments are also disclosed in the Strategic Report.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
The auditors, WR Partners, will be proposed for reappointment in accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006.
This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
We have audited the financial statements of Furrows Holdings Limited (the 'Parent Company') and its subsidiaries (the 'Group') for the year ended 31 December 2025, which comprise the Consolidated income statement, the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position, the Company Statement of Financial Position, the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity, the Company Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes, including a summary of 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 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 or the 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.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditors' 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.
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
∙the information given in the Group 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 Group 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 its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Group strategic report or the Directors' report.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
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 Auditors' 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 Group financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
The audit team obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks that are applicable to the Company and the Group and determined that the most significant are those that relate to the reporting framework (FRS102 and the Companies Act 2006), the relevant tax compliance regulations, employment law, Health and Safety Regulations and the UK General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
We understood how the Company and the Group are complying with these frameworks by making enquiries of management and those responsible for legal and compliance procedures. We also reviewed board minutes to identify any recorded instances of irregularity or non compliance that might have a material impact on the financial statements.
We assessed the susceptibility of the Company and Group's financial statements to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur by meeting with key management to understand where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud. Based on our understanding our procedures involved enquiries of management and those charged with governance, manual journal entry testing, cashbook reviews for large and unusual items and the challenge of significant accounting estimates used in preparing the financial statements.
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, omission or misrepresentation.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Auditors' report.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
This report is made solely to the 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 Company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an Auditors' 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 Company and the Company's members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditors
Belmont House
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
SY2 6LG
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 03162759
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2025
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 03162759
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION (CONTINUED)
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2025
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 24 to 53 form part of these financial statements.
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 03162759
COMPANY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2025
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FURROWS HOLDINGS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: 03162759
COMPANY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION (CONTINUED)
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2025
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 24 to 53 form part of these financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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COMPANY STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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