Birrell Group Limited - Accounts to registrar (filleted) - small 18.2

Birrell Group Limited - Accounts to registrar (filleted) - small 18.2


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REGISTERED NUMBER: 10170067 (England and Wales)















Unaudited Financial Statements

for the Year Ended

31 December 2018

for

Birrell Group Limited

Birrell Group Limited (Registered number: 10170067)

Contents of the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 December 2018










Page

Company Information 1

Chartered Accountants' Report 2

Balance Sheet 3

Notes to the Financial Statements 5


Birrell Group Limited

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 December 2018







DIRECTORS: L R G Birrell
J A Birrell
Minority Venture Partners 3 Limited





REGISTERED OFFICE: 12 St Johns Business Park
Rugby Road
Lutterworth
Leicestershire
LE17 4HB





REGISTERED NUMBER: 10170067 (England and Wales)





ACCOUNTANTS: The Rowleys Partnership Ltd
Chartered Accountants
Charnwood House
Harcourt Way
Meridian Business Park
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE19 1WP

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors
on the Unaudited Financial Statements of
Birrell Group Limited


The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors in respect of the company's
annual unaudited financial statements. In accordance with the Companies Act 2006, the company is
only required to file a Balance Sheet. Readers are cautioned that the Income Statement and certain
other primary statements and the Report of the Directors are not required to be filed with the
Registrar of Companies.

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your
approval the financial statements of Birrell Group Limited for the year ended 31 December 2018 which
comprise the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and the related notes 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 within the ICAEW's regulations and guidance at http://www.icaew.com/en/membership/regulations-standards-and-guidance.

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

It is your duty to ensure that Birrell Group Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Birrell Group Limited. You consider that Birrell Group 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 financial statements of Birrell Group 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 financial statements.






The Rowleys Partnership Ltd
Chartered Accountants
Charnwood House
Harcourt Way
Meridian Business Park
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE19 1WP


12 April 2019

Birrell Group Limited (Registered number: 10170067)

Balance Sheet
31 December 2018

31.12.18 31.12.17
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Intangible assets 3 272,584 48,796
Investments 4 769,545 1,072,861
1,042,129 1,121,657

CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 5 173,503 50,000

CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 6 345,514 313,611
NET CURRENT LIABILITIES (172,011 ) (263,611 )
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

870,118

858,046

CREDITORS
Amounts falling due after more than
one year

7

467,368

627,763
NET ASSETS 402,750 230,283

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 9 1,139 1,139
Retained earnings 401,611 229,144
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 402,750 230,283

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 December 2018.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2018 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:
(a)ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the
Companies Act 2006 and
(b)preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company
as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with
the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the
Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.

Birrell Group Limited (Registered number: 10170067)

Balance Sheet - continued
31 December 2018


The financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Income Statement has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 12 April 2019 and were signed on its
behalf by:





L R G Birrell - Director


Birrell Group Limited (Registered number: 10170067)

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 December 2018


1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

Birrell Group Limited is a private company, limited by shares , registered in England and Wales. The
company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company
Information page.

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Preparation of consolidated financial statements
The financial statements contain information about Birrell Group Limited as an individual company
and do not contain consolidated financial information as the parent of a group. The company is
exempt under Section 399(2A) of the Companies Act 2006 from the requirements to prepare
consolidated financial statements.

Goodwill
Goodwill, being the amount paid in connection with the acquisition of a business in 2017, is being amortised evenly over its estimated useful life of ten years.

Intangible assets
Intangible assets are initially measured at cost. After initial recognition, intangible assets are
measured at cost less any accumulated amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses.

Book of business are being amortised evenly over their estimated useful life of ten years.

Taxation
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income
Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income
or directly in equity.

Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted.

Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been
enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.


Birrell Group Limited (Registered number: 10170067)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 December 2018


2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued
Deferred tax
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed
at the balance sheet date.

Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods
different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured
using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that
are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is
probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future
taxable profits.

3. INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Book of
Goodwill business Totals
£    £    £   
COST
At 1 January 2018 - 54,218 54,218
Additions - 3,037 3,037
Reclassification/transfer 251,640 - 251,640
At 31 December 2018 251,640 57,255 308,895
AMORTISATION
At 1 January 2018 - 5,422 5,422
Amortisation for year 25,164 5,725 30,889
At 31 December 2018 25,164 11,147 36,311
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 December 2018 226,476 46,108 272,584
At 31 December 2017 - 48,796 48,796

During the year an amount held previously as an investment was reclassified as goodwill. The
original company has ceased to exist and the trade absorbed into Birrell Group Limited. The
directors have chosen to write off the goodwill over 10 years.

Birrell Group Limited (Registered number: 10170067)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 December 2018


4. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS
Shares in
group
undertakings
£   
COST
At 1 January 2018 1,072,861
Impairments (51,676 )
Reclassification/transfer (251,640 )
At 31 December 2018 769,545
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 December 2018 769,545
At 31 December 2017 1,072,861

Transfer as detailed in note 4 of these financial statements.

5. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.12.18 31.12.17
£    £   
Amounts owed by group undertakings 172,425 -
Directors' current accounts - 50,000
Prepayments and accrued income 1,078 -
173,503 50,000

6. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.12.18 31.12.17
£    £   
Bank loans and overdrafts 181,060 245,525
Trade creditors 280 -
Amounts owed to group undertakings 148,810 -
Other creditors 15,364 67,040
Accruals and deferred income - 1,046
345,514 313,611

7. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR
31.12.18 31.12.17
£    £   
Bank loans - 1-2 years 135,000 118,800
Bank loans - 2-5 years 208,368 384,963
Other creditors 124,000 124,000
467,368 627,763

Birrell Group Limited (Registered number: 10170067)

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued
for the Year Ended 31 December 2018


8. SECURED DEBTS

The following secured debts are included within creditors:

31.12.18 31.12.17
£    £   
Bank loans 485,568 638,163

Bank loans are secured against the assets of the group.

9. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL




Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 31.12.18 31.12.17
value: £    £   
514 Ordinary A £1 514 514
111 Ordinary B £1 111 111
514 Ordinary C £1 514 514
1,139 1,139

10. DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES

The following advances and credits to a director subsisted during the years ended
31 December 2018 and 31 December 2017:

31.12.18 31.12.17
£    £   
G J F Birrell
Balance outstanding at start of year 50,000 -
Amounts advanced - 50,000
Amounts repaid (50,000 ) -
Amounts written off - -
Amounts waived - -
Balance outstanding at end of year - 50,000