Company registration number 13833674 (England and Wales)
WYCOMBE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
PAGES FOR FILING WITH REGISTRAR
WYCOMBE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Balance sheet
1
Notes to the financial statements
2 - 6
WYCOMBE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
31 AUGUST 2025
31 August 2025
page 1
2025
2024
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
4
17,905
34,571
Current assets
Debtors
5
141,942
139,085
Cash at bank and in hand
91,104
25,429
233,046
164,514
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
6
(494,218)
(498,117)
Net current liabilities
(261,172)
(333,603)
Total assets less current liabilities
(243,267)
(299,032)
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
7
(627,266)
(469,733)
Net liabilities
(870,533)
(768,765)
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
1
1
Profit and loss reserves
(870,534)
(768,766)
Total equity
(870,533)
(768,765)
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The director of the company has elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 28 August 2026 and are signed on its behalf by:
A Khan
Director
Company registration number 13833674 (England and Wales)
WYCOMBE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
page 2
1
Accounting policies
Company information
Wycombe Preparatory School Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office can be found on the Company Information page.19 London Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 1BJ.
1.1
Accounting convention
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 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.
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. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
This 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:
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 of the company are consolidated in the financial statements of Alpha School Holdings Limited. These consolidated financial statements are available from its registered office.
1.2
Going concern
Atruet the time of approving the financial statements, the director has a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the director continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
1.3
Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes.
1.4
Tangible fixed assets
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:
Fixtures and fittings
25% on cost
WYCOMBE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
page 3
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 credited or charged to profit or loss.
1.5
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.
1.6
Financial instruments
The company 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 company's balance sheet when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with 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
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.
Classification of financial liabilities
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 company after deducting all of its liabilities.
Basic financial liabilities
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, 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.
1.7
Equity instruments
Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
1.8
Employee 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.
1.9
Retirement benefits
Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.
WYCOMBE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
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2
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 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.
3
Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
2025
2024
Number
Number
Total
24
34
4
Tangible fixed assets
Plant and machinery etc
£
Cost
At 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025
67,903
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 September 2024
33,332
Depreciation charged in the year
16,666
At 31 August 2025
49,998
Carrying amount
At 31 August 2025
17,905
At 31 August 2024
34,571
5
Debtors
2025
2024
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Trade debtors
91,986
99,298
Other debtors
49,956
39,787
141,942
139,085
WYCOMBE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
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6
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2025
2024
£
£
Trade creditors
93,376
87,601
Taxation and social security
76,250
24,168
Other creditors
324,592
386,348
494,218
498,117
7
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
2025
2024
£
£
Amounts owed to group undertakings
627,266
469,733
8
Audit report information
As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements, the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006.
The auditor's report is qualified and includes the following:
Disclaimer of opinion on financial statements
In our opinion, except for the effects of the matter described in the Basis for Qualified Opinion paragraph, the financial statements:
• give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 August 2025 and of its 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 qualified opinion
The financial statements for the period to 31 August 2025 include a disclaimer of opinion.
The basis of disclaimer of opinion is due to the issues and difficulty in obtaining sufficient audit evidence in relation to assets, liabilities, revenue and expenditure in the financial statements for the period. This issue has arisen due to the availability of supporting documentation ahead of urgent deadlines.
To this extent, as the auditor, we cannot confirm whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
Notwithstanding our disclaimer of an opinion on the financial statements, in the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit performed subject to the pervasive limitation described above, we have not identified material misstatements in the strategic report or the directors' report.
Arising from the limitation of our work referred to above:
• we have not obtained all the information and explanations that we considered necessary for the purpose of our audit: and
• we were unable to determine whether adequate accounting records have been kept.
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:
• returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
• the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
• certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made.
WYCOMBE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025
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Audit report information
(Continued)
page 6
Senior Statutory Auditor:
Darren Harding
Statutory Auditor:
Affinia (Crawley)
Date of audit report:
28 August 2026
9
Related party transactions
During the year, Alpha Schools Holdings Limited charged £120,000 (2024: £96,000) in head office charges.
10
Parent company
The parent entity of the company is Alpha Schools Holdings Limited.
Mr A Khan is the ultimate controlling party owning the majority of the issued share capital of the parent company.