WST_ASSETS_LIMITED - Accounts
WST_ASSETS_LIMITED - Accounts
The directors present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2020.
The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:
Statement of directors' responsibilities
The directors are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgements 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 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.
Information relating to events after the reporting period is given in note 8 to the financial statements.
In accordance with the company's articles, a resolution proposing that McLintocks (NW) Limited be reappointed as auditor of the company will be put at a General Meeting.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.
give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 30 June 2020 and of its loss 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 opinion
Conclusions relating to going concern
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the ISAs (UK) require us to report to you where:
the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is not appropriate; or
the directors have not disclosed in the financial statements any identified material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt about the company’s ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting for a period of at least twelve months from the date when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Other information
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:
the information given in the directors' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
the directors' report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
adequate accounting records have not been kept, or 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; or we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemption in preparing the directors' report and take advantage of the small companies exemption from the requirement to prepare a strategic report.
As explained more fully in the directors' responsibilities statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
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 auditor's 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.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's member 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 member those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's 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 member for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
WST Assets Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is The Coach House, 25 Rhosddu Road, Wrexham, LL11 1EB.
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 £.
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.
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, 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.
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.
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
On 1 August 2016 the company entered into a 99 year lease with Wrexham Glyndwr University to lease the Racecourse football ground. The asset is recognised as an investment property in the statutory accounts. The lease has an interest rate of 7.5% with annual payments of £100,000 over the 99 year term.
On 1 August 2016 the company entered into a 99 year finance lease with Wrexham Glyndwr University to lease the Racecourse football ground. The asset is recognised as an investment property in the statutory accounts. The lease has an interest rate of 7.5% with annual payments of £100,000 over the 99 year term. The present value of total lease payments is £1,229,606.
The lease for the Racecourse football ground is guaranteed by Wrexham AFC Limited and Wrexham Football Supporters' Society Limited.
On 9 February 2021, 100% of the issued share capital in Wrexham AFC Limited was purchased by The R.R. McReynolds Company LLC, a company incorporated in the United States.
At the same date, Wrexham AFC Limited committed to a 25 year lease on the Racecourse football ground. The amount owing from Wrexham AFC Limited to the company at that point was written off.
The above are non-adjusting balance sheet events. As a result of the assessment of the events and conditions summarised above and based on information available at the date of approval of the financial statements, the company has concluded that there are no material impacts for year ended 30 June 2020.
At the balance sheet date, Wrexham AFC Limited and WST Assets Limited were subsidiaries of Wrexham Football Supporters' Society Limited (trading as Wrexham Supporters Trust).
The property is being rented to Wrexham AFC Limited at £100,000 per annum plus associated expenses recharged. During the year the company charged rent and associated expenses of £115,000 (2019: £130,000) and insurance of £10,786 (2019: £10,786) to Wrexham AFC Limited. As at 30 June 2020 the company was owed £40,093 (2019: £26,093) from Wrexham AFC Limited.
Wrexham Football Supporters' Society Limited (trading as Wrexham Supporters Trust) is the company's ultimate parent company and controlling party.
Wrexham Football Supporters' Society Limited is registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 and is owned by its members. As such there is no ultimate controlling party. The registered address for Wrexham Football Supporters' Society Limited is C/o McLintocks, The Coach House, 25 Rhosddu Road, Wrexham LL11 1EB.