Company Registration No. 05208881 (England and Wales)
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
PAGES FOR FILING WITH REGISTRAR
LB GROUP
1 Vicarage Lane
Stratford
London
E15 4HF
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Balance sheet
1
Notes to the financial statements
2 - 9
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
- 1 -
2023
2022
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
5
461,803
505,680
Current assets
Debtors
6
265,227
263,250
Cash at bank and in hand
106,303
110,838
371,530
374,088
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
7
(290,721)
(375,820)
Net current assets/(liabilities)
80,809
(1,732)
Total assets less current liabilities
542,612
503,948
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
8
(20,033)
(30,097)
Provisions for liabilities
(38,475)
(70,231)
Net assets
484,104
403,620
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
11
2
2
Profit and loss reserves
484,102
403,618
Total equity
484,104
403,620
The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 27 March 2024 and are signed on its behalf by:
Mr J L O'Neill
Director
Company Registration No. 05208881
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
- 2 -
1
Accounting policies
Company information
Little Bear's Nursery School Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Suite 22 The Ongar Business Centre, The Gables, Fyfield Road, Ongar, England, CM5 0GA.
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.
1.2
Going concern
The directors have prepared detailed financial projections for the period ending true31 December 2023. These projections are based on assumptions that the directors considered to be reasonable and achievable.
After considering the above matters and current trading, the directors believe that the group will have adequate resources to meets its liabilities as they fall due and so to operate as a going concern for at least twelve months following the date of approval of these financial statements. The directors therefore consider it adequate to continue to apply the going concern basis for the preparing the financial statements.
1.3
Turnover
Turnover is recognised at the fair value of the consideration receivable for services provided in the normal course of business.
Turnover is attributable to the provision of pre-primary education.
Income is recognised in the period to which it relates with consideration made for accrued and deferred income where applicable based on inflows of money.
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:
Leasehold improvements
Over the lease term
Plant and equipment
25% on reducing balance
Fixtures and fittings
25% on reducing balance
Computers
25% straight line
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.
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
- 3 -
1.5
Impairment of fixed assets
At each reporting period end date, the company reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any). Where it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, the company estimates the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs.
Recoverable amount is the higher of fair value less costs to sell and value in use. In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the asset for which the estimates of future cash flows have not been adjusted.
If the recoverable amount of an asset (or cash-generating unit) is estimated to be less than its carrying amount, the carrying amount of the asset (or cash-generating unit) is reduced to its recoverable amount. An impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss, unless the relevant asset is carried at a revalued amount, in which case the impairment loss is treated as a revaluation decrease.
Recognised impairment losses are reversed if, and only if, the reasons for the impairment loss have ceased to apply. Where an impairment loss subsequently reverses, the carrying amount of the asset (or cash-generating unit) is increased to the revised estimate of its recoverable amount, but so that the increased carrying amount does not exceed the carrying amount that would have been determined had no impairment loss been recognised for the asset (or cash-generating unit) in prior years. A reversal of an impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss, unless the relevant asset is carried at a revalued amount, in which case the reversal of the impairment loss is treated as a revaluation increase.
1.6
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.
1.7
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.
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
- 4 -
Basic financial liabilities
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, 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.
1.8
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.
Changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as fair value hedges are recognised in profit or loss immediately, together with any changes in the fair value of the hedged asset or liability that are attributable to the hedged risk.
1.9
Taxation
The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.
Current tax
The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.
Deferred tax
Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.
The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
- 5 -
1.10
Employee benefits
The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of the cost of stock or fixed assets.
The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received.
Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the company is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.
1.11
Retirement benefits
Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.
1.12
Leases
Rentals payable under operating leases, including any lease incentives received, are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease except where another more systematic basis is more representative of the time pattern in which economic benefits from the leases asset are consumed.
1.13
Government grants
Government grants are recognised at the fair value of the asset received or receivable when there is reasonable assurance that the grant conditions will be met and the grants will be received.
A grant that specifies performance conditions is recognised in income when the performance conditions are met. Where a grant does not specify performance conditions it is recognised in income when the proceeds are received or receivable. A grant received before the recognition criteria are satisfied is recognised as a liability.
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
- 6 -
2
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are 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.
Critical judgements
The following judgements (apart from those involving estimates) have had the most significant effect on amounts recognised in the financial statements.
Useful economics lives of tangible assets
The annual depreciation charge for tangible assets is sensitive to changes in the estimated useful economic lives and residual values of the assets. The useful economic lives and residue value are re-assessed annually. They are amended when necessary to reflect current estimates, based on economic utilisation and the physical condition of assets. See note 5 for the carrying amount of the plant and machinery and note 1.4 for the useful economic lives for each class of assets.
Critical judgements
The following judgements (apart from those involving estimates) have had the most significant effect on amounts recognised in the financial statements.
Impairment of group loans
The Company makes an estimate of the recoverable value of group loans. When assessing the impairment of group loans management considers whether there is objective evidence of impairment including:
economic or legal reasons relating to the debtors financial difficult; and
observable data indicating that there has been a measurable decrease in the estimated future cash flows from a group of financial assets since the initial recognition of those asset.
3
Auditor's remuneration
2023
2022
Fees payable to the company's auditor and associates:
£
£
For audit services
Audit of the financial statements of the company
6,960
4,060
4
Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
2023
2022
Number
Number
Total
26
25
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
- 7 -
5
Tangible fixed assets
Leasehold improvements
Plant and equipment
Fixtures and fittings
Computers
Total
£
£
£
£
£
Cost
At 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023
464,328
96,152
80,534
7,153
648,167
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 July 2022
41,132
55,308
39,611
6,436
142,488
Depreciation charged in the year
23,216
10,211
10,332
117
43,876
At 30 June 2023
64,348
65,520
49,943
6,553
186,364
Carrying amount
At 30 June 2023
399,980
30,632
30,591
600
461,803
At 30 June 2022
423,196
40,844
40,923
717
505,680
6
Debtors
2023
2022
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Trade debtors
3,881
5,932
Amounts owed by group undertakings
238,691
234,999
Other debtors
22,655
22,319
265,227
263,250
Amounts owed by group undertakings are unsecured, interest free, have no fixed date of repayment and are repayable on demand.
7
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2023
2022
£
£
Bank loans
10,000
10,000
Trade creditors
26,448
78,980
Amounts owed to group undertakings
41,562
101,659
Taxation and social security
32,115
33,753
Other creditors
180,596
151,428
290,721
375,820
Amounts owed to group undertakings are unsecured, interest free, have no fixed date of repayment and are repayable on demand.
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
- 8 -
8
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
2023
2022
£
£
Bank loans
20,033
30,097
Included in bank loan total of £30,033 (2022: £40,097) (£10,000 included within one year) (2022: £10,000 included within one year) is the government business bounce back loan scheme. The loan is repayable over a term of 5 years and is secured by the Government guarantees.
9
Deferred taxation
The following are the major deferred tax liabilities and assets recognised by the company and movements thereon:
Liabilities
Liabilities
2023
2022
Balances:
£
£
Accelerated capital allowances
38,475
70,231
2023
Movements in the year:
£
Liability at 1 July 2022
70,231
Credit to profit or loss
(31,756)
Liability at 30 June 2023
38,475
The deferred tax liability set out above relates to accelerated capital allowances.
10
Pension commitments
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme for all qualifying employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. At the balance sheet date unpaid contributions of £1,865 (2022 - £1,444) were due to the fund.
11
Called up share capital
2023
2022
2023
2022
Ordinary share capital
Number
Number
£
£
Issued and fully paid
Ordinary shares of £1 each
2
2
2
2
LITTLE BEAR'S NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023
- 9 -
12
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 was unqualified.
Senior Statutory Auditor:
Richard Lane
Statutory Auditor:
LB Group Limited (Stratford)
13
Operating lease commitments
Lessee
At the reporting end date the company had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, as follows:
2023
2022
£
£
324,000
444,000
14
Related party transactions
The company has taken advantage of exemption, under the terms of Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', not to disclose related party transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries within the group.true
15
Parent company
The financial statements of the company are consolidated in the financial statements of Little Bear's Daycare Group Limited. These consolidated accounts are available from its register office Suite 22, The Ongar business centre, The Gables, Fyfield Road, Ongar, Essex, CM5 0GA
Little Bear's Daycare Group Limited is the smallest and largest group of undertakings to consolidate these financial statements.
In the opinion of the directors, there is no ultimate controlling party.
16
Guarantees
The company has entered into a cross guarantee that secures loans in the parent company, as well as other group companies, by way of a fixed and floating charge over all of its trade and assets.
2023-06-302022-07-01false27 March 2024CCH SoftwareCCH Accounts Production 2023.300No description of principal activityThis audit opinion is unqualifiedMr J L O'NeillMrs S S O'NeillMr J L O'Neillfalse052088812022-07-012023-06-30052088812023-06-30052088812022-06-3005208881core:LeaseholdImprovements2023-06-3005208881core:PlantMachinery2023-06-3005208881core:FurnitureFittings2023-06-3005208881core:ComputerEquipment2023-06-3005208881core:LeaseholdImprovements2022-06-3005208881core:PlantMachinery2022-06-3005208881core:FurnitureFittings2022-06-3005208881core:ComputerEquipment2022-06-3005208881core:CurrentFinancialInstrumentscore:WithinOneYear2023-06-3005208881core:CurrentFinancialInstrumentscore:WithinOneYear2022-06-3005208881core:Non-currentFinancialInstrumentscore:AfterOneYear2023-06-3005208881core:Non-currentFinancialInstrumentscore:AfterOneYear2022-06-3005208881core:CurrentFinancialInstruments2023-06-3005208881core:CurrentFinancialInstruments2022-06-3005208881core:ShareCapital2023-06-3005208881core:ShareCapital2022-06-3005208881core:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedLosses2023-06-3005208881core:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedLosses2022-06-3005208881bus:CompanySecretaryDirector12022-07-012023-06-3005208881core:LeaseholdImprovements2022-07-012023-06-3005208881core:PlantMachinery2022-07-012023-06-3005208881core:FurnitureFittings2022-07-012023-06-3005208881core:ComputerEquipment2022-07-012023-06-30052088812021-07-012022-06-3005208881core:LeaseholdImprovements2022-06-3005208881core:PlantMachinery2022-06-3005208881core:FurnitureFittings2022-06-3005208881core:ComputerEquipment2022-06-30052088812022-06-3005208881core:WithinOneYear2023-06-3005208881core:WithinOneYear2022-06-3005208881core:Non-currentFinancialInstruments2023-06-3005208881core:Non-currentFinancialInstruments2022-06-3005208881bus:PrivateLimitedCompanyLtd2022-07-012023-06-3005208881bus:SmallCompaniesRegimeForAccounts2022-07-012023-06-3005208881bus:FRS1022022-07-012023-06-3005208881bus:Audited2022-07-012023-06-3005208881bus:Director12022-07-012023-06-3005208881bus:Director22022-07-012023-06-3005208881bus:CompanySecretary12022-07-012023-06-3005208881bus:FullAccounts2022-07-012023-06-30xbrli:purexbrli:sharesiso4217:GBP