HALTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“the trustees use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the group's ability to continue as a going concern.”

Group structure

1. HALTON COMMUNITY TRANSPORT · parent
   1. Extra Mile Transport Company Limited 100% · England · Vehicle repairs and maintenance and provision of fuel

Significant events

• “increase in National Insurance contributions which posed a genuine existential threat to HCT”
• “LCRCA and Halton Borough Council recognised the severity of this challenge and responded by increasing contractual payments slightly”
• “reduction in our volunteer base and the corresponding growth in our paid staff team.”
• “two additional vehicles were brought into the fleet. One was acquired outright, following a total insurance loss, the other as part of our ongoing fleet replenishment strategy.”
• “Despite losing several valued volunteers due to ill health and age-related infirmity, the volunteer team still contributed 14,816 hours to the Halton community during the year.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +21.1%

  £146,461 → £177,380

• Cash

  -47%

  £100,116 → £53,096

• Net assets

  -13.9%

  £196,318 → £168,952

• Employees

  +12.5%

  24 → 27

• Operating profit

  +30%

  -£35,446 → -£24,826

• Profit before tax

  +33.9%

  -£41,389 → -£27,366

• Wages

  +19.4%

  £519,957 → £621,056

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers