ACE LIBERTY & STONE PLC

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  Material uncertainty over going concern

  The matter explained in Note 3 indicates that the base case forecast for the Group and Company assumes the repayment of a convertible loan note and successful refinancing of a bank loan falling due for repayment within 12 months of approval of the accounts. These events or conditions set forth in relation to the above in the accounting policies indicate the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt over the Group's and Company's ability to continue as a going concern.

1. ACE LIBERTY & STONE PLC 2007-11-02 → present
2. ACE LIBERTY & STONE LIMITED 2007-04-24 → 2007-11-02

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

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Accounting basis

IFRS

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

RPG Crouch Chapman LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Material uncertainty disclosed

“The matter explained in Note 3 indicates that the base case forecast for the Group and Company assumes the repayment of a convertible loan note and successful refinancing of a bank loan falling due for repayment within 12 months of approval of the accounts. These events or conditions set forth in relation to the above in the accounting policies indicate the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt over the Group's and Company's ability to continue as a going concern.”

Group structure

1. ACE LIBERTY & STONE PLC · parent
   1. Ace (EBT) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Trustee
   2. Ace (Gateshead) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Investment
   3. Ace (Hanley) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Investment
   4. Ace (Hulme) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Investment
   5. Ace (Keighley) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Investment
   6. Ace (Management) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Investment
   7. Ace (Manchester) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Investment
   8. Ace (North) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Investment
   9. Ace (Sunderland) Limited 100% · England and Wales · Investment

Significant events

• “A debt facility totalling £17,741,800 secured against the properties held in Ace (North) Limited completed in September 2024.”
• “A short extension of the £10 million Convertible Loan Notes (CLN) to 31 December 2025 has been agreed with the noteholder”
• “The sale of Egerton Park service station, Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray completed in May 2024 for a consideration of £2,750,000.”
• “Loders Service Station, Dorchester, which was held for sale at 30 April 2025, was sold in June 2025 for a consideration of £2,210,000.”
• “Ace (Barnsley) Limited, Ace (Luton) Limited and Ace (Plymouth) Limited, all subsidiaries of Ace Liberty & Stone plc, were dissolved on 17 June 2025.”

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

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

2

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -1.4%

  £5,585,526 → £5,505,203

• Cash

  -53.1%

  £3,207,678 → £1,505,384

• Net assets

  -5.4%

  £31,731,454 → £30,017,069

• Employees

  0%

  2 → 2

• Profit before tax

  +58.1%

  -£4,234,825 → -£1,772,672

• Wages

  -2.2%

  £139,200 → £136,130

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers