Gentle Touch Care Services Limited - Abbreviated accounts 16.1

REGISTERED NUMBER: 04132204 (England and Wales)

Abbreviated Unaudited Accounts

for the Year Ended 31 March 2016

for

Gentle Touch Care Services Limited

Page

Company Information

1

Abbreviated Balance Sheet

2

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts

4

Chartered Certified Accountants' Report

6

DIRECTORS:

J A Coombes

K P Coombes

SECRETARY:

M W Jones

REGISTERED OFFICE:

1 Strands Barn

Strands Farm Lane

HORNBY

Lancashire

LA2 8JF

REGISTERED NUMBER:

04132204 (England and Wales)

ACCOUNTANTS:

Meiring Chartered Certified Accountants

Strands Barn

Strands Farm Lane

Hornby

LANCASTER

Lancashire

LA2 8JF

FIXED ASSETS

Tangible assets

2

6,783

9,332

CURRENT ASSETS

Stocks

271

321

Debtors

61,276

47,682

Cash in hand

31

44

61,578

48,047

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

55,007

36,821

NET CURRENT ASSETS

6,571

11,226

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

13,354

20,558

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due after more than one
year

(4,627

)

(6,719

)

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES

(239

)

(239

)

NET ASSETS

8,488

13,600

CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Called up share capital

3

100

Profit and loss account

8,388

13,500

SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS

8,488

13,600

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2016.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2016 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.

The abbreviated accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 19 August 2016 and were signed on its behalf by:

J A Coombes - Director

1.	ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the

Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2015).

Turnover

Turnover represents net invoiced sales of goods, excluding value added tax.

Tangible fixed assets

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life or, if held under a finance lease, over the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

Fixtures and fittings

-

20% on reducing balance

Motor vehicles

-

25% on reducing balance

Computer equipment

-

20% on cost

Stocks

Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and

slow moving items.

Deferred tax

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the

balance sheet date.

Hire purchase and leasing commitments

Assets obtained under hire purchase contracts or finance leases are capitalised in the balance sheet. Those

held under hire purchase contracts are depreciated over their estimated useful lives. Those held under finance

leases are depreciated over their estimated useful lives or the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

The interest element of these obligations is charged to the profit and loss account over the relevant period. The

capital element of the future payments is treated as a liability.

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the profit and loss account on a straight line basis over the

period of the lease.

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension

scheme are charged to the profit and loss account in the period to which they relate.

2.	TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Total

£

COST

At 1 April 2015

and 31 March 2016

23,293

DEPRECIATION

At 1 April 2015

13,961

Charge for year

2,549

At 31 March 2016

16,510

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31 March 2016

6,783

At 31 March 2015

9,332

3.	CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:

Number:

Class:

Nominal

31.3.16

31.3.15

value:

£

100

Ordinary

£1

100

The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors in respect of the company's annual

unaudited financial statements, from which the unaudited abbreviated accounts (set out on pages two to five)

have been prepared.

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the

financial statements of Gentle Touch Care Services Limited for the year ended 31 March 2016 which comprise the

Profit and Loss Account, the 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 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at http://www.accaglobal.com/rulebook.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Gentle Touch Care Services 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 Gentle Touch Care Services Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Gentle Touch Care Services Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with the requirements of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants as detailed at http://www.accaglobal.com/factsheet163. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Gentle Touch Care Services 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 Gentle Touch Care Services Limited. You consider that Gentle Touch Care Services 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 Gentle Touch Care Services 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.

Meiring Chartered Certified Accountants

Strands Barn

Strands Farm Lane

Hornby

LANCASTER

Lancashire

LA2 8JF

19 August 2016