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HORTICARE
COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT'S REPORT AND ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 2025
COMPANY NUMBER 2712532 (ENGLAND & WALES)
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HORTICARE
COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT'S REPORT AND ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 2025
CONTENTS
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| Legal and administrative details | 1 | my | |
| Council ofManagement's Report | 2to3 | ||
| Statement offinancial activities | 4 | ||
| Balance sheet | 5 | ||
| Notes to the account | 6to9 | “ | |
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| The following pages do notform part ofthe statutory accounts: | |||
| Accountants’ report | 10 | ||
| Detailedincomeandexpenditureaccount | 11 |
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HORTICARE
LEGAL AND ADMINSTRATIVE DETAILS
Horticare is a registered charity that has been formed for the relief of people with learning difficulties by the provision of specialised treatment and vocational training in horticulture. The company is limited by guarantee and does not have a share capital
Company registration number 2712532 Charity registration number 1011327 : Governing document Articles of Association , Governing body Ten trustees/directors . Members of the Council of Management Rosemary Lilian Robertshaw Margaret Sylvia Warner Susan Handforth BeverleyIrene MargaretHemingway Jones . “ Grace Thresh Richard Shaw Michael Ross Thorpe Keith Hill (appointed 19th August 2024) Linda Hill (appointed 19th August2024)
Secretary
Registered address
Bankers
Solicitors
Accountant
Rosemary Lilian Robertshaw
156 Wrenthorpe Lane Wrenthorpe Wakefield WF2 OPF Yorkshire Bank 6-10 Norhgate Wakefield WF1 1TA Disken & Co 20 Bond Street Dewsbury WF13 LAT lan M Anderson, F,C,A, 43 Bradford Road Tingley Wakefield WF3 1RG
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LINDHILL NURSERIES Tel:BATLEY ROAD,Email:01924 info@horticarewakefield.org.uk372433KIRKHAMGATE, WAKEFIELD WF2 OSH
Trustees’ Annual Report 01/07/24 to 30/06/25
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Registered charity number 1011327 Company Limited by Guarantee number 2712532 Governing document Articles of Association ‘ Governing body Ten trustees/directors * Trustees/directors are appointed by consensus of existing trustees/directors
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Rosemary Robertshaw Secretary Margaret Sylvia Warner Susan Handforth Beverley Hemingway Treasurer Irene Margaret Jones Chair Grace Thresh Michael Ross Thorpe Richard Shaw Linda Hill Keith Hill
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The charitable aims of Horticare are to provide training for people with learning disabilities, who are deemed likely to benefit from such training in horticultural methods, allied crafts or rural skills and the marketing of produce,
The trustees have regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
Our activities throughout the year, producing and selling a wide range of garden plants and operating a garden maintenance service throughout the Wakefield district, are of great public benefit, such as the gardening service for people no longer able to maintain their gardens and the local community who continue to patronise us in ever increasing numbers.
We receive very positive word-of-mouth recommendations from our customers who appreciate the choice and quality we offer and all produced by learning disabled people. They enjoy their time with us Chatting with our learning disabled trainees in a calm atmosphere. We promote our activities and =~ produce on Facebook and receive positive comments posted by customers. Our trainees enjoy helping customers and they in turn, see the positive side of learning disabilities.
Other activities encompass woodwork, general maintenance, crafts, life skills such as cooking, jam making and preserving home grown produce.
Our greenhouses and polytunnels have been full to capacity with a wide range of plants and our fresh vegetables are greatly appreciated. The garden service is fully occupied and our trainees enjoy coming to work at Horticare as much as ever.
Our volunteer helpers make a tremendous contribution to all aspects of our work, showing a great understanding of the ways in which each trainee is affected by their learning disability and how best to support them to achieve their potential, while at the same time applying health and safety safeguards.
CHAIR: 1 M JONES. SECRETARY: R. ROBERTSHAW REGISTERED CHARITY NO: 1011327. COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE. REGISTERED NO: 2712532 REGISTERED OFFICE: 156, WRENTHORPE LANE, WRENTHORPE. WAKEFIELD. WF2 OPF
They work closely with staff in all aspects of our varied programme and are extremely valued. Two more of our volunteers have become trustees of the charity, so are now involved in all aspects of our operation.
To further our objectives, we invest in ISF accounts, including Socially Responsible ones and our policy on reserves is as follows: -
The Trustees of Horticare believe that sound charity management is not about raising money to survive from one year to the next, or getting yourself out of the latest financial crisis. It is about planning and securing your future. We believe that strategies are needed to generate the resources necessary to underpin a strong and viable organisation, able to sustain itself into the future and develop the services its users need. Resources must also be sufficient to safeguard against factors outside our control that could disrupt our charitable work in the future, such as a sudden pandemic and financial constraints from central government affecting public services delivery by local authorities.
We continue to actively review our working practices to ensure that not only are we as efficient a8. possible for the present time, but are as cost effective as possible for the future.
Our trainees work, learn and socialise at Horticare. As well as support with their work, our trainees are given help and advice with everyday problems and worries. The nature of their disabilities often makes simple events seem worrying and complicated, but sympathetic explanations can reassure them. We advise on all health and safety issues, keeping them safe while they demonstrate they are so much more than their disabilities. They are enthusiastic in their work, particularly in regard to helping other trainees less able than themselves.
This year we have again received donations from the Charles Brotherton Trust and our local community, Kirkhamgate Community Association, Lindale Methodist Church and St. Annes Church. These donations have been used to improve our facilities.
We continue to liaise with social services and the learning disability commissioning department of the local council, producing reports and assessments necessary for the social care side of our operation. We provide our service within our local council social care remit at very economical rates, appreciated in the present austere financial constraints that all councils are under.
We attend meetings and advise on learning disabilities matters gained through our experience in the field. Another public benefit is our advice to parents/carers about services and the rights that the Community Care Act 1993 and the Care Act 2014 give them and their learning disabled beneficiaries Our help and advice about any aspect of horticulture that is given to members of the public is another benefit. Most of all, the learning disabled members of the public who attend Horticare receive a great deal of benefit in their everyday lives.
We have continued to deliver the service Horticare was set up to do thirty five years ago by a group of dedicated parents. Our learning disabled trainees are given real work and inclusion in society, supported and instructed in many skills, realising their potential in a caring environment; the raison d’etre of Horticare.
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The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees.
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total Funds | Total Funds | ||
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| Note | Funds | Funds | 2025 | 2024 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | ||
| Income and Expenditure | |||||
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| Incoming Resources | |||||
| Salesand outwork | 44,273 | 44,273 | 41,809 | ||
| Training fees and tuition | 62,661 | 62,661 | 57,979 | ||
| Donations and gifts | 2,219 | 2,219 | 6,669 | ||
| Total Incoming Resources | 109,153 | 0 | 109,153 | 106,457 | |
| Resources Expended | ~ | “ | |||
| Direct charitable expenditure | 2 | 97793 | 0 | 97,793 | 93,863 |
| Management and administration | 3 | 2,604 | 2,604 | 2,872 | |
| Total resources expended | 4 | 100,397 | 0 | 100,397 | 96,735 |
| Net incoming resources before revaluations | |||||
| of investment assets | 8,756 | 0 | 8,756 | 9,722 | |
| Profiton revaluation of investment assets | 83 | 83 | 2,106 | ||
| Net movement in funds | 8,839 | 0 | 8,839 | 11,828 | |
| Balance broughtforward at 1 July 2023 | 203,073 | 203,073 | 191,245 | ||
| Balancecarriedforwardat30June2024 | 211,912 | 0 | 211,912 | 203,073 |
The notes on pages6 to 9 form part of these accounts
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HORTICARE
BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 JUNE 2025
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||
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| Note | £ | £ | £ | £ | |||
| Fixed Assets | |||||||
| Tangible assets | 5 | 62,824 | 62,824 | ||||
| Investments | 6 | 14,062 | 13,979 | ||||
| 76,886 | 76,803 | ||||||
| Current Assets | |||||||
| Stocks | 4,830 | 4875 | |||||
| Debtors | 7 | 1,909 | 1,129 | ||||
| Cash atbankand in hand | 128,898 | 121,329 | |||||
| 135,637 | 127,333 | . | |||||
| Creditors | |||||||
| Amounts falling due within one year | 8 | 611 | 1063 | ||||
| Net currentassets | 135,026 | 126,270 | |||||
| 211,912 | “ | 203,073 | |||||
| Funds | |||||||
| Restricted funds | 9 | 17,944 | 17,944 | ||||
| Unrestricted funds | 9 | 193,968 | 185,129 | ||||
| 211,912 | 203,073 |
For the financial year ended 30th June 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from Audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirements of the Act with regard to the accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.
Approved by the Council of Management on 18th August 2025.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime.
Margaret Jones Chair
The notes on pages6 to 9 form part of these accounts.
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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES
1.1 Basis of preparation of the accounts
These accounts are prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with applicable accounting standards and the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice: "Accounting by Charities”.
The company has taken advantage of the exemption in Financial Reporting Standard no 1 fromthe =~ requirement to produce a cash flow statement on the grounds that it is a small company.
1.2 Income
Income consists of all incoming resources (whether in the form of cash or other assets or in kind) other than incoming resources received for permanent endowment.
1.3 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation
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Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost or their estimated value in the instance of donated assets less depreciation which is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost or valuation, less their estimated residual value, over the expected useful lives on the following bases:
Plant & equipment 25% per annum on net book value Motor vehicles 25% per annum on net book value
1.4 Funds
Where grants or donations are received subject to specific conditions then any accounting movements relating to these receipts are held in a separate restricted fund. Otherwise all other accounting movements are reflected through the unrestricted fund.
1.5 Investment assets
Investment assets are included in the balance sheet at their market value at the balance sheet date.
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HORTICARE
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total Funds | Total Funds | ||
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| Funds | Funds | 2025 | 2024 | ||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | ||
| 2 DIRECT CHARITABLE EXPENDITURE | |||||
| Change in stock of plants | 45 | 45 | 559 | ||
| Purchase of plants and seeds | 15038 | 15,038 | 19,157 - | . | |
| Wages | 62720 | 62,720 | 59,659 | ||
| Garden tools | 422 | 422 | 634 | ||
| Kitchen and food | 1109 | 1,109 | 1,640 | ||
| Insurance | 3131 | 3,131 | 2,697 | ||
| Heat and light | 2908 | 2,908 | 2,276 | ||
| Repairs and renewals | 8834 | 8,834 | 2,985 | ||
| Motor and travelling | 2412 | 2,412 | 3,083 | ||
| Cleaning | 372 | 372_ | 144 = | ||
| Waste disposal | 802 | 802 | 1,029 | ||
| 97793 | 0 | 97,793 | 93,863 | ||
| 3 MANAGEMENTAND ADMINISTRATION | |||||
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| Printing, postage and stationery | 241 | 241 | 384 | ||
| Professional fees | 773 | 773 | 134 | ||
| Telephone | 1,140 | 1,140 | 851 | ||
| Sundry | 290 | 290 | 402 | ||
| Equipment testing | 160 | 160 | 1,101 | ||
| 2,604 | 0 | 2,604 | 2,872 |
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4 TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED
| Staff | Other | Total funds | Totalfunds | ||
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| costs | Depreciation | costs | 2025 | 2024 | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Provision of training | 62,720 | 35,073 | 97,793 | 93,863 | |
| Management and administration | 2,604 | 2,604 | 2,872 | ||
| 62,720 | 0 | 37,677 | 100,397 | 96,735 |
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HORTICARE
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
5 TANGIBLE ASSETS
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|Improvements|Plant &|Motor|
|Funds|Buildings|Equipment|Vehicles|Total|
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|Cost|or|valuation|
|Balance|at|1|July|2024|28,390|65,132|12,222|105,744|
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|Disposals|
|28,390|65,132|12,222|0|105,744|
|Depreciation|
|Balance|at|1|July|2024|5,768|27,815|9,337|0|42,920|
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|5,768|27,815|9,337|0)|42,920|
|Net|Book|Value|
|Balance|at|30|June|2025|22,622|37,317|2,885|0|62,824|
|Balance|at|30|June|2024|22,622|37,317|2,885|0|62,824|
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6 INVESTMENTS
Listed investments
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|2025|2024|
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|Balances|at|1|July|2023|13,979|11,873|
|Investment|repaid|0|0|
|Profit/(Loss)|on|revaluation|83|2106|
|14,062|__|13,979|
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|7|DEBTORS|
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|£|£|
|Trade|debtors|1909|1129|
|Other|debtors|ie)|0|
|1909|1129|
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HORTICARE
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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
8 CREDITORS: amounts falling due after one year
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||
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| £ | £ | |||||
| Creditors | and | accruals | 611 | 1063 | . |
9 ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS
| Unrestricted | Restricted | |||
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| funds | funds | Total | ||
| £ | £ | £ | ||
| Fixed assets | 59,442 | 17,444 | 76,886 | “ |
| Current assets | 134,526 | 500 | 135,026 | |
| 193,968 | 17,944 | 211,912 |
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HORTICARE
Accountant's Report on unaudited accounts of of the Trustees of Horticare
As described on page 5 you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts for the year ended 30 June 2024 set out on pages 4 to 9 and you consider that the company is exempt from an audit and a report under S249A(1) of the Companies Act 1985.
in accordance with your instructions, | have compiled these unaudited accounts in order to assist you to fulfil your statutory responsibilities, from the accounting records and explanations supplied to me. a) anandercon_dO~ 42 en ccsueeeeeceees Date: 18th August 2025
lan M Anderson FCA 43 Bradford Road Tingley Wakefield WF3 1RG
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HORTICARE
DETAILED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
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|Income|
|Sales|and|outwork|44,273|41,809|
|Training|fees|and|tuition|62,661|57,979...|
|Donations|and|gifts|2,219|6,669|2|
|Clothing|0|0|
|109,153|106,457,|
|Indirect|expenditure|
|Printing,|postage|and|stationery|241|384|
|TelephoneProfessional|fees|1,140773|-|851134|||
|Sundry|290|402|
|Computer|costs|160|1,101|
|2,604|2,872|
|Income|less|indirect expenses|106,549|103,585|
|Direct|charitable|expenses|
|Change|in|stock|of|plants|45|559|
|Purchase|of|plants|and|seeds|15,038|19,157|
|Wages|62,720|59,659|
|Garden|tools|422|634|
|Kitchen|and|food|1,109|1,640|
|Insurance|3,131|2,697|
|Heat|and|light|2,908|2,276|
|Repairs and|renewals|8,834|2,985|
|Motor|and|travelling|2,412|3,083|
|WasteCleaningdisposal|372802|1,029144|,|
|97,793|93,863|
|Income|less expenditure|8756|9722|
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