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Registered number: SC585188
DIRECTORS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
CONTENTS
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
STRATEGIC REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
Wood Leisure is a multi-generational, family-owned and managed business with six top quality holiday parks in some of the most scenic areas of Scotland. Now 45 years since the Wood family founded the business, Wood Leisure are proud of their reputation for customer service and exceptional standards, numerous awards and experienced and committed personnel.
In 2025 we continued to be impacted by high interest rates, inflation in every sector, spiralling prices for gas and electricity and ever-increasing employee costs. The Real Living wage which we are proud to champion, will challenge us, coupled with the astonishing increase in costs created by the rise in National Insurance contributions now thrust on to the business. The day one rights imposed on us and changes to sick leave etc in new Employee Rights legislation further compounds our challenges and is definitely a disincentive to create more positions in the company. Whatever tactics the government think they are using to stimulate growth, they are certainly not stimulating growth in the hospitality and leisure sector. The Rates revaluation in Scotland alone has raised our costs for business rates across the holiday parks, some by almost 50%. Should we attempt to pass on these huge costs to our customers, we would certainly not be able to fill our touring pitches, not be able to attract visitors to our holiday hire caravans and lodges and not be able to sell our holiday homes because of resultant excessive pitch fees. In short we would not be competitive. We are definitely feeling the squeeze on profits for re-investment and capital growth.
As if all these governmental measures were not enough, the bombshell of Inheritance Tax legislation undermined the very fabric of family businesses across the UK, threatening to sabotage the future of all successful family companies in favour of big faceless corporations. Thankfully, demand for our holiday parks has continued to be good throughout 2025 despite the cost-of-living pressures suffered by our customers. Our Loyalty Programme which rewards our regular visitors has encouraged repeat visits and cross-selling across Wood Leisure holiday parks. Coupled with our reputation for customer care, our focus on family values, commitment to our employees, our branding, marketing and our award-winning continue to keep the spotlight on Wood Leisure and help to generate new enquiries and bookings. Sustainability and environmental impact are priorities for the Family as we progress towards Net Zero. All of the holiday parks offer EV chargers, operate a fleet of electric vehicles and electric park machinery and equipment. The installation of PIR lighting throughout our facilities and "Hive" remote heating controls in our holiday homes mean that we can monitor utility use and solar and biomass systems enhance our "green" credentials. Recycling in all its forms is prioritised throughout Wood Leisure demonstrated effectively in the programme of renovation of our existing holiday hire lodges and the re-use of these furnishings to upgrade our staff accommodations. Our commitment to the environment is further demonstrated by our promotion of Play it Green, planting trees throughout the world to off-set our carbon footprint. CHAS, a much-loved Scottish charity providing respite care for terminally ill children and teenagers, continues to be our fundraising focus. Wood Leisure's Highland COO, Woody, highlights the fundraising and was also instrumental to our prestigious award of "Parks Make Places" rewarding our local community involvement. Employee retention and progression are paramount to the success of the business so training and promotional opportunities, support for well-being and mental health, flexible working options and social interactions are key. Our brand new Hub and HR platform highlight our commitment to our highly valued teams and give the opportunity to streamline processes, enhance GDPR, promote our staff benefits, incentives and rewards, vital to attracting new skilled talent.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
Our Health and Safety Team continue to respond to ongoing compliance legislation to ensure the safety and security of our teams and our guests.
Major risk factors continue - high inflation and high interest rates stifling growth and re-investment. Retaining skilled and trained employees in hospitality is an on-going challenge and the spiralling costs and stresses of staffing continue to frustrate the management. The Scottish Government's proposed visitor levy will also cost, confuse and create unfairness in the accommodation sector and regional variations in tariffs threaten to heavily burden leisure businesses like Wood Leisure operating across different areas of Scotland. On-going conflicts in Europe and more recently the Middle East threaten to impact hugely on all of us by cutting off routes for the shipment of essential commodities and huge price increases in fuel costs. The uncertainty and nervousness these wars create inhibits forward holiday bookings and also inhibits investment in holiday homes. On a positive note, this uncertainty may actually create more of a demand for holidays in the UK and discourage overseas travel. Wood Leisure is poised to capitalise if home-based holidays become more popular - a brand new, upgraded website is almost ready to launch.
Future Focus
Wood Leisure continue to focus on perfecting the holiday park experience offered to our guests and our holiday home owners. The Family strive to offer exceptional and personalised customer experiences and industry-leading facilities and accommodations.
Faskally Woods, officially opened by First Minister John Swinney in Spring 2025 is now emulating Wood Leisure's very high standards and this new holiday park is creating huge positivity for the future of Wood Leisure.
The Company measures KPIs on a monthly basis as part of its internal control processes and management accounts function.
The KPIs are on turnover, profitability and performance.
There are no other key performance indicators that the Company uses to measure performance.
This report was approved by the board on 9 October 2026 and signed on its behalf.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 January 2026.
The directors are responsible for preparing the Strategic report, the Directors' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the Company's financial statements and then apply them consistently;
∙make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
∙prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The profit for the year, after taxation, amounted to £229,404 (2025 - £698,487).
Dividends of £61,200 were paid during the year (2025 - £81,600).
The directors who served during the year were:
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
The auditors, Sumer Auditco Limited, will be proposed for reappointment in accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006.
This report was approved by the board on
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
We have audited the financial statements of Wood Leisure Holiday Parks Limited (the 'Company') for the year ended 31 January 2026, which comprise the Statement of income and retained earnings, the Analysis of net debt, the Statement of financial position, the Statement of cash flows and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditors' report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the Annual Report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
∙the information given in the Strategic report and the Directors' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
∙the Strategic report and the Directors' report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic report or the Directors' report.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED (CONTINUED)
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an Auditors' report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
We gained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the company and the industry in which it operates, and considered the risk of acts by the company that were contrary to applicable laws and regulations, including fraud. We designed audit procedures to respond to the risk, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion. We focussed on laws and regulations which could give rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements, including, but not limited to, the Companies Act 2006 and UK tax legislation. Our tests included agreeing the financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation, enquiries with management. There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it. As in all our audits, we also addressed the risk of management override of internal controls, including testing journals and evaluating whether there was evidence of bias by the directors that represented a risk of material misstatement due to fraud.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Auditors' report.
This report is made solely to the Company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an Auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company's members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants & Statutory Auditors
14 City Quay
DD1 3JA
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND RETAINED EARNINGS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
REGISTERED NUMBER: SC585188
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT 31 JANUARY 2026
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf on
The notes on pages 12 to 26 form part of these financial statements.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
ANALYSIS OF NET DEBT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
Wood Leisure Holiday Parks Limited is a private company, limited by shares, domiciled in Scotland with registration number SC585188. The registered office is Wood Leisure Head Office, Blairgowrie Holiday Park, Rattray, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, United Kingdom, PH10 7AL.
2.Accounting policies
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention unless otherwise specified within these accounting policies and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006.
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The preparation of financial statements in compliance with FRS 102 requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires management to exercise judgment in applying the Company's accounting policies (see note 3).
The following principal accounting policies have been applied:
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Grants of a revenue nature are recognised in the Statement of income and retained earnings in the same period as the related expenditure. The Company operates a defined contribution plan for its employees. A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which the Company pays fixed contributions into a separate entity. Once the contributions have been paid the Company has no further payment obligations. The contributions are recognised as an expense in the Income Statement when they fall due. Amounts not paid are shown in accruals as a liability in the Statement of Financial Position. The assets of the plan are held separately from the Company in independently administered funds.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Goodwill
Other intangible assets
All intangible assets are considered to have a finite useful life. If a reliable estimate of the useful life cannot be made, the useful life shall not exceed ten years.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Land is not depreciated. Depreciation on other assets is charged so as to allocate the cost of assets less their residual value over their estimated useful lives, as listed.
Depreciation is provided on the following basis:
The assets' residual values, useful lives and depreciation methods are reviewed, and adjusted prospectively if appropriate, or if there is an indication of a significant change since the last reporting date.
Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing the proceeds with the carrying amount and are recognised in profit or loss.
Provisions are measured as the best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation, taking into account the related risks and uncertainties.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
2.Accounting policies (continued)
The Company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 “Basic Financial Instruments” of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
Financial instruments are recognised in the Company's Statement of financial position 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.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
Intangible fixed assets are amortised over their useful lives. The actual lives of the assets are assessed annually and may vary depending on a number factors. In re-assessing asset lives, factors such as contractual or other legal rights are taken into account. Tangible fixed assets are depreciated over their useful lives taking into account residual values where appropriate. The actual lives of the assets and the residual values are assessed annually and may vary depending on a number of factors. In re-assessing asset lives, factors such as, product life cycles and maintenance programmes are taken into account. Residual value assessments consider issues such as future market conditions, the remaining life of the asset and projected disposal values.
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
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WOOD LEISURE HOLIDAY PARKS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
The only factors affecting tax charges are those imposed by HMRC.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2026
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