| 2025 | 2024 | ||
| £’000 | £’000 | ||
Revenue | 4 | ||
Cost of sales | ( | ( | |
Gross profit | |||
Administrative expenses | ( | ( | |
Other operating income | 5 | ||
Operating profit before fair value movement on investment properties | 6 | ||
Fair value loss on investment properties | 13 | ( | ( |
Operating profit | |||
Financial income | 7 | ||
Financial expense | 7 | ( | ( |
Profit on the sale of investments | ( | ||
Share of profit of Joint Venture | 15 | ||
Profit before taxation | 4–9 | ||
Taxation | 10 | ( | ( |
| Profit for the financial year attributable to equity | |||
Holders | |||
| Earnings per share on profit for the financial year – pence | |||
Basic and diluted | 11 | ||
| Dividends | |||
Final 2024 paid | |||
Interim 2025 paid | |||
Final 2025 proposed |
| 2025 | 2024 | ||
| £’000 | £’000 | ||
Profit for the financial year | |||
| Items that cannot be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss | |||
Net change in fair value of other properties | 14 | ( | |
Net change in fair value of investments at fair value through comprehensive income | 15 | ( | ( |
| Total comprehensive income and expense for the year attributable to the equity | |||
holders of the Parent Company |
| 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2024 | ||
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | ||
| Non-current assets | |||||
Freehold investment properties | 13 | ||||
Property, plant, and equipment | 14 | ||||
Right of use asset | 14 | ||||
Investment in Joint Venture | 15 | ||||
Other financial assets | 15 | ||||
| Current assets | |||||
Inventory and work in progress | 16 | ||||
Trade and other receivables | 17 | ||||
Term deposits | |||||
Cash and cash equivalents | |||||
Total assets | |||||
| Current liabilities | |||||
Trade and other payables | 18 | ( | ( | ||
Lease liability | 14 | ( | ( | ||
Corporation tax | ( | ( | |||
( | ( | ||||
| Non-current liabilities | |||||
Lease liability | 14 | ( | ( | ||
Deferred tax liability | 19 | ( | ( | ||
Total liabilities | ( | ( | |||
Net assets | |||||
| Equity | |||||
Called up share capital | 20 | ||||
Share premium account | |||||
Other reserves | 21 | ||||
Investment property fair value reserve | 22 | ||||
Retained earnings | |||||
Total equity | |||||
Net assets per share | 12 | £ | £ |
| 2025 | 2024 | ||
| £’000 | £’000 | ||
| Cash flows from operating activities | |||
Profit for the year | |||
| Adjustments for: | |||
Depreciation right of use assets | |||
Depreciation fixed assets | |||
Finance income | ( | ( | |
Finance expense | |||
Profit on sale of investment | |||
Share of profit of Joint Venture | ( | ( | |
Fair value loss on investment properties | |||
Taxation | |||
Cash flows from operations before changes in working capital | |||
Acquisition of inventory and work in progress | 16 | ( | ( |
Increase in trade and other receivables | ( | ( | |
Increase in trade and other payables | |||
Cash generated from operations | |||
Tax paid | ( | ( | |
Net cash flows from operating activities | |||
| Cash flows from investing activities | |||
Interest received | |||
Finance expense | ( | ||
Dividend from Joint Venture | |||
Proceeds from bond redemption | |||
Acquisition of investment property | 13 | ( | ( |
Acquisition of plant and equipment | 14 | ( | |
Proceeds from sale of investments | 15 | ||
Decrease/(increase) in held term deposits | |||
Net cash flows from investing activities | |||
| Cash flows from financing activities | |||
Purchase of own shares | ( | ( | |
Lease payments | ( | ||
Dividends paid | ( | ( | |
Net cash flows (used in)/from financing activities | ( | ( | |
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | |||
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year | |||
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year |
| Investment | ||||||
| property | ||||||
| Called up | Share | Other | fair value | |||
| share | premium | reserves | reserve (see | Retained | Total | |
| capital | account | (note 21) | note 22) | earnings | equity | |
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
At 30 September 2023 | ||||||
Profit for the year | ||||||
| Other comprehensive income – | ||||||
| revaluation of investments | ||||||
| Net change in fair value of own use | ( | ( | ||||
| freehold property | ( | ( | ||||
| Transactions with equity holders | ||||||
Dividends | ( | ( | ||||
Purchase of own shares | ( | ( | ( | |||
Total transactions with equity holders | ( | ( | ( | |||
| Fair value movements on investment | ||||||
properties – Cardiff | ( | |||||
At 30 September 2024 | ||||||
Profit for the year | ||||||
| Other comprehensive income – | ||||||
revaluation of investments | ( | ( | ||||
| Transactions with equity holders | ||||||
Dividends | ( | ( | ||||
Purchase of own shares | ( | ( | ( | |||
Total transactions with equity holders | ( | ( | ( | |||
| Fair value movements on investment | ||||||
properties – Cardiff | ( | |||||
At 30 September 2025 |
| IFRS | |
| The following standards are issued but not yet effective. The Group intends to adopt these standards, if applicable, when they | |
| become effective. It is not expected that any of these standards will have a material impact on the Group. | |
Standard | Effective date |
IFRS 7 and IFRS 9 – Contracts Referencing Nature-dependent Electricity | 1 January 2025 |
Amendments to IAS 21- Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates: Lack of Exchangeability | 1 January 2026 |
Amendments to IFRS 9 and IFRS 7 -Amendments to classification and measurement requirements for financial instruments | 1 January 2026 |
IFRS 18 - Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements* | 1 January 2027 |
IFRS 19 ‘Subsidiaries without Public Accountability: Disclosures* | 1 January 2027 |
| * Subject to endorsement |
| Property | ||||
| and other | Property | 2025 | ||
| investments | Development | Eliminations | Total | |
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
Rental income (wholly in the UK) | 493 | 187 | – | 680 |
Financial income | 684 | 1 | – | 685 |
Share of profit of Joint Venture | 306 | 74 | – | 380 |
Profit before taxation | 1,482 | 197 | – | 1,679 |
| Net operating assets | ||||
Assets | 30,826 | 5,475 | (4,586) | 31,715 |
Liabilities | (5,431) | (206) | 4,586 | (1,051) |
Net assets | 25,395 | 5,269 | – | 30,664 |
| Property | ||||
| and other | Property | 2024 | ||
| investments | Development | Eliminations | Total | |
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
Rental income (wholly in the UK) | 460 | 223 | – | 683 |
Financial income | 602 | 6 | – | 608 |
Share of profit of Joint Venture | 62 | 78 | – | 140 |
Profit before taxation | 1,073 | 312 | – | 1,385 |
| Net operating assets | ||||
Assets | 30,504 | 5,388 | (4,465) | 31,427 |
Liabilities | (5,259) | (210) | 4,465 | (1,004) |
Net assets | 25,245 | 5,178 | – | 30,423 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Management fees receivable | 560 | 547 |
Lease surrender | – | 48 |
Other income | 57 | 62 |
Dividends received | 24 | 19 |
Other operating income | 641 | 676 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
| Included are the following expenses: | ||
| Auditor’s remuneration: | ||
Fees payable to the Company’s auditor for the audit of the annual accounts | 62 | 60 |
Audit of subsidiary undertakings pursuant to legislation | 2 | 2 |
Depreciation of right of use assets | 10 | 10 |
Depreciation of fixed assets | 1 | – |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Bank and other interest receivable | 685 | 608 |
Interest payments on right to use assets | (6) | (7) |
| Number of employees | ||
2025 | 2024 | |
Management | 3 | 3 |
Administration | 3 | 3 |
6 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Wages and salaries | 377 | 373 |
Social security costs | 49 | 42 |
Pension costs | 12 | 4 |
438 | 419 |
| Total | |||||
| Salary | Bonus | Benefits | Pension | 2025 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
| As Executives | |||||
J R Wollenberg | 146 | 15 | 21 | – | 182 |
K L Chandler | 73 | 3 | – | 3 | 79 |
219 | 18 | 21 | 3 | 261 | |
| As Non-Executive | |||||
N D Jamieson | 12 | – | – | – | 12 |
231 | 18 | 21 | 3 | 273 |
| Total | |||||
| Salary | Bonus | Benefits | Pension | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
| As Executives | |||||
J R Wollenberg | 141 | 12 | 28 | – | 181 |
K L Chandler | 70 | 3 | – | 3 | 76 |
211 | 15 | 28 | 3 | 257 | |
| As Non-Executive | |||||
N D Jamieson | 12 | – | – | – | 12 |
223 | 15 | 28 | 3 | 269 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
| Current tax | ||
UK corporation tax on the result for the year | 320 | 314 |
| Deferred tax | ||
Revaluation of investment properties | 1 | – |
Taxation (all recognised in the profit and loss account) | 321 | 314 |
| 2024 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
| Tax reconciliation | ||
Profit before taxation | 1,679 | 1,385 |
Profit before taxation multiplied by standard rate of corporation tax in the UK of 25% (2024: 25%) | 420 | 346 |
| Effects of: | ||
Joint Venture | (95) | (35) |
Non-taxable income | (6) | 2 |
Non-deductible expenditure | 1 | 1 |
Non-taxable (surplus)/deficit on fair value | 1 | – |
Total tax expense | 321 | 314 |
| Weighted average | ||
| number of shares | ||
2025 | 2024 | |
Basic and diluted shares | 1,022,289 | 1,043,087 |
Earnings per share (p) | 132.90 | 102.76 |
2025 | 2024 | |
Share in issue at 30 September | 1,004,420 | 1,037,776 |
Net assets per share (£) | 30.53 | 29.31 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
| Group | ||
At beginning of year | 5,640 | 5,655 |
Additions | 1 | 8 |
Fair value movement in the year | (5) | (23) |
At end of year | 5,636 | 5,640 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
| Company | ||
At beginning of year | 5,625 | 5,640 |
Additions | – | 8 |
Transfers from subsidiary | 16 | – |
Fair value movement in the year | (5) | (23) |
At end of year | 5,636 | 5,625 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £000 | £000 | |
Opening fair value | 5,625 | 5,640 |
Additions | – | 8 |
Transfers | 16 | – |
Gains and losses recognised in income statement (Fair value movement on investment properties) | (5) | (23) |
Disposal of investment property | – | – |
Closing fair value | 5,636 | 5,625 |
| £’000 | |
| Group and Company | |
At 30 September 2025 | 3,652 |
At 30 September 2024 | 3,651 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £000 | £000 | |
Rental income from investment properties | 493 | 460 |
| Direct operating expenses (including repairs and maintenance) arising from investment property | ||
that generated rental income during the period | (221) | (77) |
| Own use | Fixtures, | |||
| freehold | fittings and | Motor | ||
| property | equipment | vehicles | Total | |
| Group and Company | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 |
| Cost or valuation | ||||
At 30 September 2023 | 290 | 3 | 16 | 309 |
Additions | – | 2 | – | 2 |
Disposals | – | (2) | – | (2) |
Fair value movement | (5) | – | – | (5) |
At 30 September 2024 | 285 | 3 | 16 | 304 |
At 30 September 2025 | 285 | 3 | 16 | 304 |
| Depreciation | ||||
At 30 September 2023 | – | 3 | 16 | 19 |
Disposals | – | (2) | – | (2) |
Charge for year | – | – | – | – |
At 30 September 2024 | – | 1 | 16 | 17 |
Charge for year | – | 1 | – | 1 |
At 30 September 2025 | – | 2 | 16 | 18 |
| Net book value | ||||
At 30 September 2025 | 285 | 1 | – | 286 |
At 30 September 2024 | 285 | 2 | – | 287 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £000 | £000 | |
Opening fair value | 285 | 290 |
Gains and losses recognised in consolidated statement of comprehensive income | – | (5) |
Closing fair value | 285 | 285 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
| Group and Company | ||
| Right of use assets | ||
Land | 115 | 125 |
| Lease liabilities | ||
Current | 8 | 7 |
Non-current | 142 | 151 |
At end of year | 150 | 158 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
| Group and Company | ||
Due within one year | 16 | 16 |
Due within one to two years | 16 | 16 |
Due within two to five years | 51 | 48 |
Due after five years | 119 | 151 |
Total financing charges | (52) | (73) |
At end of year | 150 | 158 |
| Shares in | ||||
| joint | Unlisted | Listed | ||
| venture | investments | investments | Total | |
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
At 30 September 2023 | 12,283 | – | 778 | 13,061 |
Net change in investments at fair value through other comprehensive income | – | – | (15) | (15) |
Transferred during the year | – | 115 | (115) | – |
Disposed during the year | – | (99) | (99) | |
Share of profit of Joint Venture | 140 | – | – | 140 |
At 30 September 2024 | 11,423 | 115 | 549 | 12,087 |
Net change in investments at fair value through other comprehensive income | – | – | (14) | (14) |
Disposed during the year | – | (112) | (112) | |
Share of profit of Joint Venture | 380 | – | – | 380 |
Dividend paid by Joint Venture | (2,500) | – | – | (2,500) |
At 30 September 2025 | 9,303 | 115 | 423 | 9,841 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Revenue | 1,224 | 1,319 |
Cost of sales | (1,102) | (1,167) |
Administrative expenses | (234) | (198) |
Other operating income | 287 | 255 |
Fair value movement on investment properties | 438 | (256) |
Interest receivable | 301 | 532 |
Interest payable | – | – |
Taxation on ordinary activities | (116) | (192) |
Profit after tax | 798 | 293 |
Other comprehensive income | – | – |
Total comprehensive income | 798 | 293 |
Group’s share of results of Joint Venture – 47.62% (2024: 47.62%) | 380 | 140 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
| Non-current assets | ||
Investment properties | 13,718 | 13,206 |
| Current assets | ||
Inventory and work in progress | 2,997 | 2,997 |
Trade and other receivables | 406 | 505 |
Term deposits | 1,000 | 3,064 |
Cash and cash equivalents | 3,746 | 6,325 |
Total current assets | 8,149 | 12,891 |
Total assets | 21,867 | 26,097 |
| Current liabilities | ||
Trade and other payables | (1,280) | (1,074) |
| Non-current liabilities | ||
Deferred taxation | (1,052) | (1,036) |
Total liabilities | (2,332) | (2,110) |
Net assets | 19,535 | 23,987 |
Group’s share of results of Joint Venture – 47.62% (2024: 47.62%) | 9,303 | 11,423 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Opening costs | 722 | 715 |
Additions | 1 | 7 |
723 | 722 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Trade receivables | 222 | 88 |
Other receivables | 13 | 23 |
Prepayments and accrued income | 351 | 206 |
586 | 317 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Rents invoiced in advance | 156 | 150 |
Trade creditors | 8 | 34 |
Other taxes and social security | 64 | 50 |
Other creditors | 343 | 296 |
Accruals | 81 | 57 |
652 | 587 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
At beginning of year | 77 | 77 |
(Credit)/debit for the year in the income statement | 1 | – |
At end of year | 78 | 77 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Difference between accumulated depreciation and amortisation and capital allowances | 78 | 77 |
Other temporary differences | – | – |
Deferred tax liability | 78 | 77 |
| 2025 | 2024 | ||
| £’000 | £’000 | ||
| Authorised | |||
4,500,000 | (2024: 4,500,000) ordinary shares of 20 pence each | 900 | 900 |
| Allotted, called up and fully paid | |||
At 30 September 2024 1,037,776 (30 September 2023: 1,053,810) ordinary shares of 20 pence each | 208 | 210 | |
Cancelled during the year 33,356 (2024: 16,034) ordinary shares of 20 pence each | (7) | (2) | |
At 30 September 2025 1,004,420 (30 September 2024: 1,037,776) ordinary shares of 20 pence each | 201 | 208 |
| Equity | Own use | Capital | ||||
| investments | property | redemption | Capital | Merger | ||
| at FVOCI | reserve | reserve | reserve | reserve | Total | |
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
At 30 September 2023 and 1 October 2023 | (110) | 76 | 544 | 30 | 1,869 | 2,409 |
Purchase of own shares | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 |
Fair value of other properties | – | (5) | – | – | – | (5) |
Net change in fair value | (15) | – | – | – | – | (15) |
At 30 September 2024 | (125) | 71 | 546 | 30 | 1,869 | 2,391 |
Purchase of own shares | – | – | 7 | – | – | 7 |
Net change in fair value | (14) | – | – | – | – | (14) |
At 30 September 2024 | (139) | 71 | 553 | 30 | 1,869 | 2,384 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
At beginning of year | 2,170 | 2,193 |
Transfer from retained earnings on fair value movement in the year - Cardiff | (5) | (23) |
Deferred tax movement | – | – |
At end of year | 2,165 | 2,170 |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £’000 | £’000 | |
Within one year | 769 | 645 |
Years two to five | 1,731 | 1,404 |
More than five years | 852 | 596 |
Total | 3,352 | 2,645 |
| Balance owed by/(to) | |||||
| related party at | |||||
| Value | 30 September | ||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||
Party | Nature of transaction | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 | £’000 |
| Campmoss Property Company | Management fees received | ||||
| Limited | by the Company | 560 | 547 | 149 | 2 |
| Consultancy fees received by | |||||
J R Wollenberg (Director) | 60 | 60 | 60 | 30 | |
D M Joseph | Director’s salary paid | 3 | 3 | – | – |
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £000 | £000 | |
Cash and cash equivalents | 10,496 | 2,014 |
Term deposits | 4,032 | 10,235 |
Trade and other receivables | 235 | 111 |
Listed investments | 423 | 549 |
15,186 | 12,909 |
2025 | 2024 | |||
| Gross | Provision | Gross | Provision | |
| £000 | £000 | £000 | £000 | |
Not past due | 130 | (2) | 84 | – |
Past due 31-90 days | 96 | (3) | 4 | – |
Past due 90 days | 2 | (1) | – | – |
228 | (6) | 88 | – | |
| The movement in the provision during the year was as follows: | ||||
At beginning of year | – | 34 | ||
Amounts written back | – | (34) | ||
Provided in year | 6 | – | ||
At end of year | 6 | – |