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REGISTERED NUMBER: 04653492 (England and Wales)















Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

for

Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited

Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited (Registered number: 04653492)






Contents of the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2026




Page

Company Information 1

Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Financial Statements 4


Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 March 2026







Directors: S Howell
P Tolworthy
R Hide





Registered office: Unit 5 Crowbush Farm
Luton Road
Toddington
Dunstable
LU5 6HU





Registered number: 04653492 (England and Wales)





Accountants: Pinkham Blair
Chartered Accountants
87a High Street
The Old Town
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HP1 3AH

Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited (Registered number: 04653492)

Balance Sheet
31 March 2026

2026 2025
Notes £ £ £ £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 4 89,398 141,314

Current assets
Stocks 32,106 63,167
Debtors 5 685,372 622,537
Cash at bank 55,720 18,408
773,198 704,112
Creditors
Amounts falling due within one year 6 714,379 688,508
Net current assets 58,819 15,604
Total assets less current liabilities 148,217 156,918

Creditors
Amounts falling due after more than
one year

7

(17,131

)

(69,562

)

Provisions for liabilities (20,480 ) (29,689 )
Net assets 110,606 57,667

Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited (Registered number: 04653492)

Balance Sheet - continued
31 March 2026

2026 2025
Notes £ £ £ £
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital 9 4 4
Capital redemption reserve 96 96
Retained earnings 110,506 57,567
Shareholders' funds 110,606 57,667

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2026.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2026 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.

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 6 August 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:





R Hide - Director


Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited (Registered number: 04653492)

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

1. Statutory information

Herts Mechanical Handling Services 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.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its estimated useful life.
Plant and machinery etc - 50% on cost and 25% on cost

Stocks
Work in progress is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value.

Cost is calculated using the first-in, first-out method and includes all purchase, transport, and handling costs in bringing stocks to their present location and condition.

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.


Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited (Registered number: 04653492)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

2. Accounting policies - continued
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 26 (2025 - 27 ) .

Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited (Registered number: 04653492)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

4. Tangible fixed assets
Plant and
machinery
etc
£
Cost
At 1 April 2025 279,155
Additions 4,800
Disposals (27,745 )
At 31 March 2026 256,210
Depreciation
At 1 April 2025 137,841
Charge for year 56,716
Eliminated on disposal (27,745 )
At 31 March 2026 166,812
Net book value
At 31 March 2026 89,398
At 31 March 2025 141,314

5. Debtors: amounts falling due within one year
2026 2025
£ £
Trade debtors 514,269 409,255
Other debtors 171,103 213,282
685,372 622,537

6. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2026 2025
£ £
Bank loans and overdrafts 55,219 78,656
Hire purchase contracts (see note 8) 43,467 43,468
Trade creditors 137,688 108,961
Taxation and social security 249,162 176,038
Other creditors 228,843 281,385
714,379 688,508

Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited (Registered number: 04653492)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

7. Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
2026 2025
£ £
Bank loans - 18,355
Hire purchase contracts (see note 8) 17,131 51,207
17,131 69,562

8. Leasing agreements

Minimum lease payments fall due as follows:

Hire purchase
contracts
2026 2025
£ £
Net obligations repayable:
Within one year 43,467 43,468
Between one and five years 17,131 51,207
60,598 94,675

Non-cancellable
operating leases
2026 2025
£ £
Within one year 20,842 22,421
Between one and five years 10,479 27,479
31,321 49,900

9. Called up share capital

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 2026 2025
value: £ £
2,998 Ordinary A £0.001 2.98 2.98
999 Ordinary B £0.001 0.99 0.99
1 Ordinary C £0.001 0.01 0.01
1 Ordinary D £0.001 0.01 0.01
1 Ordinary E £0.001 0.01 0.01
4 4

Herts Mechanical Handling Services
Limited (Registered number: 04653492)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

10. Directors' advances, credits and guarantees

The following advances and credits to directors subsisted during the years ended 31 March 2026 and 31 March 2025:

2026 2025
£ £
S Howell
Balance outstanding at start of year 140,775 140,273
Amounts advanced 74,616 502
Amounts repaid (109,000 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year 106,391 140,775

R Hide
Balance outstanding at start of year (1,521 ) 8,790
Amounts advanced 62,271 -
Amounts repaid (60,750 ) (10,311 )
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year - (1,521 )

The loans to S Howell and R Hide are interest bearing at HM Revenue & Customs approved rates.