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Company Registration number: 06437976

The String of Horses Limited
Annual Report and Unaudited
Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 30 November 2025

The String of Horses Limited

Contents

Pages

Balance sheet | 1 to 2
Notes to the financial statements | 3 to 8

The String of Horses Limited

Balance Sheet as at 30 November 2025

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Tangible assets | 5 | 873,823 | 811,161
Current assets |  |  |
Stocks | 6 | 1,920 | 980
Cash at bank and in hand |  | 13,629 | 44,054
|  | 15,549 | 45,034
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 7 | (345,641) | (362,848)
Net current liabilities |  | (330,092) | (317,814)
Total assets less current liabilities |  | 543,731 | 493,347
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year | 7 | (103,504) | (98,577)
Provisions for liabilities |  | (21,765) | (3,526)
Net assets |  | 418,462 | 391,244
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital |  | 100 | 100
Retained earnings |  | 418,362 | 391,144
Shareholders' funds |  | 418,462 | 391,244

The String of Horses Limited

Balance Sheet as at 30 November 2025 (continued)

For the financial year ending 30 November 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities:

• | The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476; and
• | The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the directors have not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 9 July 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

......................................... Mr C C Ramsay Company secretary and director

Company registration number: 06437976

The String of Horses Limited

Notes to the financial statements for the Year Ended 30 November 2025

1 | GENERAL INFORMATION

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
The String Of Horses
Faugh
Heads Nook
Carlisle
CA8 9EG

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 9 July 2026.

2 | ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A smaller entities - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006 (as applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime).

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.

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

The String of Horses Limited

Notes to the financial statements for the Year Ended 30 November 2025 (continued)

2 | ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)

Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported. These estimates and judgements are continually reviewed and are based on experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for the sale of goods and provision of services in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. Turnover is shown net of sales/value added tax, returns, rebates and discounts.
The company recognises revenue when:
The amount of revenue can be reliably measured;
it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity;
and specific criteria have been met for each of the company's activities.

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, except that a change attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

The current corporation tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between taxable profits and profits reported in the financial statements.
Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised when it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.
Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.
The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

The String of Horses Limited

Notes to the financial statements for the Year Ended 30 November 2025 (continued)

2 | ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class | Depreciation method and rate
Plant and machinery | 20% reducing balance
Land and buildings | 0% charge
Fixtures and fittings | 20% reducing balance

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the profit and loss account over the period of the relevant borrowing.
Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.
Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the company has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Leases

Leases are classified as finance leases whenever the terms of the lease transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the lessee.
Assets held under finance leases are recognised at the lower of their fair value at inception of the lease and the present value of the minimum lease payments. These assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the useful life of the asset and the lease term. The corresponding liability to the lessor is included in the balance sheet as a finance lease obligation.
Lease payments are apportioned between finance costs in the profit and loss account and reduction of the lease obligation so as to achieve a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability.

The String of Horses Limited

Notes to the financial statements for the Year Ended 30 November 2025 (continued)

2 | ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)

Financial instruments

Classification
A financial asset or a financial liability is recognised only when the company becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Recognition and measurement
Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at the transaction price.
Impairment
Financial assets that are measured at cost or amortised cost are reviewed for objective evidence of impairment at the end of each reporting date. If there is objective evidence of impairment, an impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss immediately.
Any reversals of impairment are recognised in profit or loss immediately, to the extent that the reversal does not result in a carrying amount of the financial asset that exceeds what the carrying amount would have been had the impairment not previously been recognised.

3 | STAFF NUMBERS

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was 16 (2024 - 17).

4 | PROFIT BEFORE TAX

Arrived at after charging/(crediting)

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Depreciation expense | 6,301 | 6,025

The String of Horses Limited

Notes to the financial statements for the Year Ended 30 November 2025 (continued)

5 | TANGIBLE ASSETS

| Land and buildings £ | Fixtures and fittings £ | Motor vehicles £ | Plant and machinery £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 December 2024 | 787,060 | 74,681 | - | 11,401 | 873,142
Additions | - | - | 68,505 | 458 | 68,963
At 30 November 2025 | 787,060 | 74,681 | 68,505 | 11,859 | 942,105
Depreciation
At 1 December 2024 | - | 53,861 | - | 8,120 | 61,981
Charge for the year | - | 4,164 | 1,427 | 710 | 6,301
At 30 November 2025 | - | 58,025 | 1,427 | 8,830 | 68,282
Carrying amount
At 30 November 2025 | 787,060 | 16,656 | 67,078 | 3,029 | 873,823
At 30 November 2024 | 787,060 | 20,820 | - | 3,281 | 811,161

Included within the net book value of land and buildings above is £787,060 (2024 - £787,060) in respect of freehold land and buildings.

The String of Horses Limited

Notes to the financial statements for the Year Ended 30 November 2025 (continued)

6 | STOCKS

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Stocks | 1,920 | 980

7 | CREDITORS

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due within one year |  |
Loans and borrowings | 46,559 | 37,007
Trade creditors | 9,989 | 34,568
Taxation and social security | 30,756 | 31,011
Accruals and deferred income | 2,122 | 800
Other creditors | 256,215 | 259,462
| 345,641 | 362,848

Creditors include bank loans and overdrafts and net obligations under finance lease and hire purchase contracts which are secured of £46,559 (2024 - £37,007).

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due after one year |  |
Loans and borrowings | 103,504 | 98,577

Creditors include bank loans and overdrafts and net obligations under finance lease and hire purchase contracts which are secured of £103,504 (2024 - £98,577).