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Registration number: 00026390

Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited

Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

 

Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Profit and Loss Account

2

Balance Sheet

3 to 4

Notes to the Financial Statements

4

Accountants' Report

5

 

Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited

Company Information

Chairman

G E Longmire

Directors

M Boles

R N Hodgson

R Sandford

Company secretary

R Sandford

Registered office

39 High Street
Battle
East Sussex
England
TN33 0EE

Accountants

Manningtons
Chartered AccountantsVictoria House
The Moor
Hawkhurst
Kent
TN18 4NR

 

Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited

Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

Note

2026
£

2025
£

Turnover

 

519,492

481,339

Other income

 

1,122

-

Staff costs

 

(29,550)

(26,924)

Depreciation and other amounts written off assets

 

(30,549)

(24,017)

Other charges

 

(317,502)

(265,177)

Profit before tax

 

143,013

165,221

Taxation

 

(42,244)

(46,296)

Profit for the year

 

100,769

118,925

 

Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited

(Registration number: 00026390)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2026

2026
£

2025
£

Fixed assets

1,048,198

752,129

Current assets

119,998

201,312

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

(193,262)

(47,773)

Net current (liabilities)/assets

(73,264)

153,539

Total assets less current liabilities

974,934

905,668

Accruals and deferred income

(29,813)

(21,116)

 

945,121

884,552

Capital and reserves

945,121

884,552

 

Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited

(Registration number: 00026390)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2026

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:
39 High Street
Battle
East Sussex
TN33 0EE
England

2

Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was 4 (2025 - 4).

For the financial year ending 31 March 2026 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 in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the micro entities regime and FRS 105 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard Applicable to the Micro-entities Regime.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 16 June 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
 

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G E Longmire

Chairman

 

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors on the Preparation of the Unaudited Statutory Accounts of
Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited
for the Year Ended 31 March 2026

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the accounts of Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited for the year ended 31 March 2026 as set out on pages 2 to 4 from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at
http://www.icaew.com/regulation.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 10 June 2019. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited and its Board of Directors as a body for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory accounts that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited. You consider that Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the accounts of Hastings Cottage Improvement Society Limited. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory accounts.

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Manningtons
Chartered Accountants
Victoria House
The Moor
Hawkhurst
Kent
TN18 4NR

9 September 2026