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Registration number: 08196585

Urban Birds Limited
Unaudited Filleted Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

Urban Birds Limited

Contents

Company Information | 1
Balance Sheet | 2
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements | 3 to 8

Urban Birds Limited

Company Information

Director | Mr Erik Gerstenmaier

Registered office | 13 Herbert Road Bromley BR2 9SH

Accountants | Field Sullivan Limited 9 Hare & Billet Road Blackheath SE3 0RB

Urban Birds Limited

(Registration number: 08196585)
Balance Sheet as at 31 August 2025

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Tangible assets | 5 | - | 552
Current assets |  |  |
Debtors | 6 | 36,171 | 33,179
Cash at bank and in hand |  | 9,085 | 5,827
|  | 45,256 | 39,006
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 7 | (44,595) | (36,319)
Net current assets |  | 661 | 2,687
Total assets less current liabilities |  | 661 | 3,239
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year | 7 | - | (2,750)
Net assets |  | 661 | 489
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital | 9 | 1 | 1
Retained earnings |  | 660 | 488
Shareholders' funds |  | 661 | 489

For the financial year ending 31 August 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Director's 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 director acknowledges his 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 director has not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the director on 7 August 2026

......................................... Mr Erik Gerstenmaier Director

Urban Birds Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

1 | General information

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

The address of its registered office is:
13 Herbert Road
Bromley
BR2 9SH

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the director on 7 August 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.

Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the director is 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 periods in which the estimate is revised where revisions affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revisions affects both current and future periods.

Urban Birds Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

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 and after eliminating sales within the company.
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 when the service is performed, if the service straddles more than one accounting period, income is recognised on pro rata basis.

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current 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 income 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.

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.

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
Office equipment | 25% straight line

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

Trade debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for merchandise sold or services performed in the ordinary course of business.
Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.

Urban Birds Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if the company does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.
Trade creditors are recognised initially at the transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

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.

Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Equity instruments are measured at the fair value of the cash or other resources received or receivable, net of the direct costs of issuing the equity instruments. If payment is deferred and the time value of money is material, the initial measurement is on a present value basis.

Dividends

Dividend distribution to the company’s shareholders is recognised as a liability in the financial statements in the reporting period in which the dividends are declared.

3 | Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including the director) during the year, was 1 (2024 - 1).

Urban Birds Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

4 | Taxation

Tax charged/(credited) in the income statement

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Current taxation |  |
UK corporation tax | 18,545 | 15,098

5 | Tangible assets

| Furniture, fittings and equipment £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 September 2024 | 6,169 | 6,169
At 31 August 2025 | 6,169 | 6,169
Depreciation
At 1 September 2024 | 5,617 | 5,617
Charge for the year | 552 | 552
At 31 August 2025 | 6,169 | 6,169
Carrying amount
At 31 August 2025 | - | -
At 31 August 2024 | 552 | 552

6 | Debtors

Current | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Trade debtors | 12,240 | -
Other debtors | 23,931 | 33,179
| 36,171 | 33,179

Urban Birds Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

7 | Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

| Note | 2025 £ | 2024 £
Due within one year |  |  |
Loans and borrowings | 8 | 2,750 | 3,000
Social security and other taxes |  | 4,861 | 5,873
Accruals |  | 3,240 | 3,108
Income tax liability |  | 33,744 | 24,338
|  | 44,595 | 36,319
Due after one year |  |  |
Loans and borrowings | 8 | - | 2,750

8 | Loans and borrowings

Non-current loans and borrowings

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Bank borrowings | - | 2,750

Current loans and borrowings

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Bank borrowings | 2,750 | 3,000

9 | Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

| 2025 | 2024
| No. | £ | No. | £
Ordinary share capital of £1 each | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1

Urban Birds Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2025

10 | Dividends

|  | 2025 |  | 2024
|  | £ |  | £
Interim dividend of £64,000.00 (2024 - £56,000.00) per ordinary share |  | 64,000 |  | 56,000

11 | Related party transactions

Director's remuneration

The director's remuneration for the year was as follows:

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Remuneration | 10,041 | 12,570

Summary of transactions with other related parties

Erik Gerstenmaier
(Director and shareholder)
During the year director was paid dividends totalling £64,000 (2024: £56,000) and a salary of £10,041 (2024: £12,570). In addition he withdrew £62,850 (2024: £70,659), incurred £780 (2024: £780) of expenditure on the company's behalf and paid for personal expenses of £1,941 (2024: £3,357). At the balance sheet date the amount due to the company from Erik Gerstenmaier was £23,931 (2024: £32,396), this has been repaid since the year end.