30 Sep 2015 12:00
KNIGHTSTONE CAPITAL PLC
Financial Statements
Year ended 31 March 2015
Directors, Advisers and Bankers | 1 |
Strategic Report | 2 |
Report of the Directors | 4 |
Independent Auditor's Report to the Members | 6 |
Profit and Loss Account | 8 |
Balance Sheet | 9 |
Notes to the Financial Statements | 10 |
Directors
The directors who have served during the year are:
Graham Watts (Director and Chair from 11 September 2014)
Duncan Brown
Nick Horne
Richard Taylor
Stewart Wright (Director and Chair to 11 September 2014)
Secretary
Charlotte Ferris
Auditor
Mazars LLP
45 Church Street
Birmingham
B3 2RT
Bankers
Barclays Bank Plc
The Bank of New York Mellon
Registered Office
Knightstone Housing
Weston Gateway Business Park
Weston-super-Mare
BS24 7JP
The Directors present their reports and audited financial statements for Knightstone Capital PLC ("the Company") for the year ended 31 March 2015. The Company is a member of the Knightstone Housing Group.
BUSINESS REVIEW AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
Knightstone Capital Plc was incorporated in September 2013 and issued its first bond on the London Stock Exchange on 2 October 2013. The bond was a £100m 35 year fixed rate bond priced at a credit spread of 140 basis points above the benchmark gilt rate. It has an extended deferral of drawdown. The initial £1m was drawn at the date of issue and a further £49m will be received in November 2017 with Knightstone Capital PLC retaining £50m of the bonds to sell to investors in the future. There is an annual coupon of 5.058% from issue until 30 November 2017 and 5.576% thereafter. The bond was issued at par.
The profit and loss account shows a result of Nil for the year (2014: Nil). This is in line with the Company's role as a special purpose lending vehicle which does not seek to generate significant financial returns.
Knightstone Capital Plc benefits from the Group's Treasury service with policies and procedures approved by the Boards of Knightstone Housing Group Limited and Knightstone Housing Association Limited. These cover funding, interest rate exposures, cash management and the investment of surplus cash.
PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTANTIES
Knightstone Capital Plc on-lends all of its proceeds from capital market transactions to its parent company, Knightstone Housing Association Limited. Where capital markets funding has been on-lent, the underlying assets of the issuance belong to Knightstone Housing Association Limited.
As Knightstone Capital Plc is not obliged to provide incremental funding to other Group asset owning subsidiaries, Knightstone Capital Plc is not at risk if it cannot obtain further funding for the Knightstone Housing Group. All of Knightstone Capital Plc's costs relating to providing funding services are met by Knightstone Housing Association Limited.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
The Company is a special purpose lending vehicle and does not seek to generate significant financial returns. The Company makes neither a profit nor a loss in line with its role as a special purpose lending vehicle. The Company therefore does not have financial key performance indicators.
FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Risk Management Objectives and Policies
Knightstone Housing Group's finance function is responsible for treasury management activities and control of associated risks. Its activities are governed by the Treasury Management Policy, approved by the Board of the Group's parent company, Knightstone Housing Group Limited, which is ultimately responsible for treasury issues in all of Knightstone Housing Group's legal entities, which include the Company. The Group finance function does not operate as a profit centre.
The Company has in place a risk management programme that seeks to limit the adverse effects on the financial performance of the Company by monitoring levels of debt finance and related finance costs.
Interest Rate Risk/Hedging
The Company currently borrows funds on a fixed rate basis from the capital markets and will, in future, on-lend these funds to its immediate parent company, Knightstone Housing Association Limited on the same fixed rate basis. As such, the Company does not bear any exposure to interest rate risk. The Company does not undertake any hedging activities and it does not have any derivatives.
Liquidity Risk
The Company mitigates its liquidity risk in relation to principal repayments and coupon payments by lending proceeds of capital market issues on the same repayment terms to the finance instrument issued.
Credit Risk
All of the Company's capital markets financing proceeds are available to be on-lent to Knightstone Housing Association Limited, which represents the only credit risk to the Company. This credit risk is mitigated through a number of factors, including the housing asset security which stands behind the loan, the overall Homes and Communities Agency assessment of the Group's financial viability and the contractual protection of the loan agreement between the Company and Knightstone Housing Association Limited. The Company is not obliged to source further funding from the capital markets for on-lending to Knightstone Housing Association Limited.
The Strategic Report was approved on 16 July 2015 and signed on its behalf by
Richard Taylor
Director
The directors present their report and audited financial statements for Knightstone Capital Plc for the year ended 31 March 2015. Knightstone Capital Plc is a member of Knightstone Housing Group.
OVERVIEW AND PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY
Knightstone Capital Plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Knightstone Housing Association Limited which is an asset owning company within the Knightstone Housing Group (the "Group"). The objective of Knightstone Capital Plc is to source funding on behalf of Knightstone Housing Association Limited directly from the capital markets and on-lend the proceeds to Knightstone Housing Association Limited.
DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT
The directors are responsible for preparing the Strategic Report, the Directors' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law).
Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and of the profit or loss of the Company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
· select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
· make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
· state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
· prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They have a general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the Company and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.
DIRECTORS
The directors who served during the period as shown on page 1 were
Duncan Brown
Nick Horne
Richard Taylor
Graham Watts (Director and Chair from 11 September 2014)
Stewart Wright (Director and Chair to 11 September 2014)
DIRECTORS' INDEMITY
The Company's Articles of Association provide, subject to the provisions of the UK legislation, an indemnity for directors and officers of the Company in respect of liabilities they may incur in the discharge of their duties or in the exercise of their powers, including any liabilities relating to the defence of any proceedings brought against them which relate to anything done or omitted, or alleged to have been done or omitted, by them as officers or employees of the Company.
Appropriate directors' and officers' liability insurance cover is in place in respect of all of the Company's directors.
MATTERS INCLUDED WITHIN THE STRATEGIC REPORT
In accordance with section 414c (11) future developments, financial risk management and consideration of exposure to risk are included within the strategic report.
STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS
Each of the directors at the date of approval of this report has confirmed that:
· So far as the director is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the Company's auditor is unaware; and
· The director has taken all the steps that he ought to have taken as a director to make himself aware of any information needed by the Company's auditor in connection with preparing their report and to establish that the Company's auditor is aware of that information.
Auditor
Mazars LLP is auditor to the Company and all other companies in the Knightstone Housing Group including the Company's immediate parent, Knightstone Housing Association Limited.
The Report of the Directors' was approved on 16 July 2015 and signed on its behalf by
Richard Taylor
Director
We have audited the financial statements of Knightstone Capital Plc for the year ended 31 March 2015 which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet and the related notes. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Respective responsibilities of the directors and auditor
As explained more fully in the Directors' Responsibilities Statement set out on page 4, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view.
Our responsibility is to audit and express an opinion on the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board's Ethical Standards for Auditors. This report is made solely to the Company's members as a body in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company's members as a body for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
Scope of the audit of the financial statements
A description of the scope of an audit of financial statements is provided on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www. frc.org.uk/auditscopeukprivate.
Opinion on the financial statements
In our opinion the financial statements:
· give a true and fair view of the state of the Company's affairs as at 31 March 2015 and of its result for the period then ended;
· have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
· have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
Opinion on the other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion the information given in the Strategic Report and Report of the Directors for the financial period for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
· adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
· the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
· certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
· we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
Stephen Eames (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Mazars LLP
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditor
45 Church Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B3 2RT
Date:
Notes | 2015 | 2014 | |
£ | £ | ||
Turnover | 19,802 | - | |
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Administrative costs | (8,100) | - | |
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Operating costs | (8,100) | - | |
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Operating profit / (loss) | 2 | 11,702 | - |
Interest receivable and similar income | 5 | 50,580 | 25,151 |
Interest payable and similar charges | 6 | (50,580) | (25,151) |
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Profit / (Loss) before taxation | 11,702 | - | |
Tax on profit / (loss) on ordinary activities | 7 | - | - |
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Profit / (Loss) for the period | 11,702 | - | |
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The results included in the profit and loss account relate wholly to continuing activities.
There are no recognised gains and losses other than those reported above, accordingly no statement of total recognised gains and losses has been prepared.
Notes | 2015 | 2014 | |
£ | £ | ||
Current Assets | |||
Debtors due within one year | 8 | 62,651 | 122,500 |
Short term investment | 9 | - | 1,000,000 |
Cash at bank | 12,500 | 12,500 | |
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75,151 | 1,135,000 | ||
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 10 | (25,151) | (85,000) |
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Net current assets | 50,000 | 1,050,000 | |
Debtors: Amounts falling due after more than one year | 8 | 1,000,000 | - |
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year | 11 | (1,000,000) | (1,000,000) |
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Net assets | 50,000 | 50,000 | |
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Share capital and reserves | |||
Called up share capital | 12 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Profit and loss account | 13 | - | - |
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50,000 | 50,000 | ||
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These financial statements were approved by the Board of directors on 15 July 2015 and signed on its behalf by:
Graham Watts Charlotte Ferris
Chair Secretary
1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and applicable accounting standards. At the date of these financial statements the directors have carried out a detailed and comprehensive review of the business and its future prospects. In the opinion of the directors, the Company is expected to be able to continue trading within the current arrangements and consequently the financial statements are presented on the going concern basis.
A summary of all material accounting policies, which have been consistently applied, are set out below:
(a) Basis of preparation
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The Company has adopted FRS 26 Financial Instruments Measurement and FRS 29 Financial Instruments Disclosures.
(b) Cash flow statement
Under FRS 1 Financial Reporting Standard No 1 (Revised), the Company is exempt from the requirement to prepare a cash flow statement on the grounds that it is a wholly owned subsidiary undertaking and its cash flows appear in a consolidated cash flow statement in the publically available financial statements of the ultimate parent undertaking, Knightstone Housing Group Limited.
(c) Financial assets
Financial assets are defined as cash or any asset that is a contractual right to receive cash or another financial asset from another entity, or a contractual right to exchange financial instruments with another entity under conditions that are potentially favourable, or an equity instrument of another entity. The only category of financial asset held by the Company is loans and receivables.
Loans and receivables are assets with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted on an active market, other than those that are categorised as financial assets at fair value through profit or loss. These are initially recognised at fair value plus transaction costs. At each balance sheet date they are subsequently measured at amortised cost, with interest income recognised in profit or loss using the effective interest method. Examples of loans and receivables include amounts on-lent to Group entities.
(d) Financial liabilities
Financial liabilities are defined as any liability that is a contractual obligation to deliver cash or another financial asset to another entity, or to exchange financial instruments with another entity under conditions that are potentially unfavourable. Financial liabilities held by the Company include issued debt. Interest charges are recognised in profit or loss using the effective interest method. The only category of financial liability held by the Company is those measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
In the case of issued debt due in more than one year, the fair value of financial liabilities is estimated by discounting the future contractual cash flows at the current market interest rate available to the Company for similar financial instruments.
(e) Segmental Information
The Company has one class of business from which it derives its income, being to provide funding to its immediate parent company, Knightstone Housing Association Limited. All interest income, expenditure and net assets are derived from UK operation.
(f) Taxation
The charge for taxation is based on the profit for the year and takes into account taxation deferred because of timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes.
(g) Bond issue costs
The Company has a contractual agreement in place with Knightstone Housing Association Limited to meet any costs associated with issuing bonds. Issue costs are therefore not recognised as a deduction to the carrying amount of the debt financial instruments where they are not incurred by the Company.
2 OPERATING PROFIT
During the year, the Company recharged interest paid on loans to Knightstone Housing Association Limited to whom the proceeds of the capital markets issue have been on-lent. Consequently during the period the Company made neither a profit nor a loss.
Audit fees for the Company are paid for by the ultimate parent company, Knightstone Housing Group Limited and disclosed within its consolidated accounts. The proportion of the audit fee attributable to the Company is £5k (2014 £5k). Non audit fees amounted to Nil (2014 £50k exc. VAT). The 2014 fees related to the non-audit work that is typically required with a bond issue including giving comfort to potential investors as to the Group's post-audited financial position.
3 EMPLOYEES
The Company does not have any employees. All employees acting on behalf of the Company are employed by Knightstone Housing Group Limited or Knightstone Housing Association Limited, whose costs are disclosed in those financial statements.
4 BOARD OF DIRECTORS' REMUNERATION
The directors of Knightstone Capital Plc are employed and remunerated by Knightstone Housing Group Limited. Full accounting disclosures on directors' remuneration are therefore included within the Group accounts
2015 | 2014 | ||
£ | £ | ||
5 INTEREST RECEIVABLE AND SIMILAR INCOME | |||
Interest receivable from Group undertakings | 50,580 | 25,151 | |
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50,580 | 25,151 | ||
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2015 | 2014 | ||
£ | £ | ||
6 INTEREST PAYABLE AND SIMILAR CHARGES | |||
Interest payable to bond holders | 50,580 | 25,151 | |
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50,580 | 25,151 | ||
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2015 | 2014 | ||
£ | £ | ||
7 TAXATION | |||
Tax charge for the year | - | - | |
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During the current year and previous year there was no taxable profit | |||
2015 | 2014 | ||
£ | £ | ||
8 DEBTORS | |||
Amounts falling due within one year | |||
Amounts due from Group undertakings | 25,151 | 85,000 | |
Unpaid share capital (note 11) | 37,500 | 37,500 | |
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62,651 | 122,500 | ||
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Amounts falling due after more than one year | |||
Amounts due from Group undertakings | 1,000,000 | - | |
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1,000,000 | - | ||
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Repayment of the on lent funds is at a fixed amount in line with the terms of the agreement. The relevant FRS 29 disclosures have been disclosed within the Strategic Report and the Report of the Directors on pages 2 and 4 respectively.
As the terms of the on-lending agreement underlying the intra-group debtor mirror those of the Company's bond liability shown under Creditors (note 11), the fair value of the £1 million debtor is estimated as £1.4 million. The basis of the estimation is shown in note 11.
2015 | 2014 | ||
£ | £ | ||
9 SHORT TERM INVESTMENT | |||
Interest bearing short term bank deposits (available on charging security for the loan) | - | 1,000,000 | |
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- | 1,000,000 | ||
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2015 | 2014 | ||
£ | £ | ||
10 CREDITORS: amounts falling due within one year | |||
Deferred income | - | 59,849 | |
Interest to bond holders | 25,151 | 25,151 | |
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25,151 | 85,000 | ||
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During the previous period ended 31 March 2014, Knightstone Capital plc charged a management fee of £85,000 to Knightstone Housing Association Limited. The fee was to recognise management costs associated with the operation of the bond and interest costs incurred by Knightstone Capital plc until the bond proceeds were on-lent to Knightstone Housing Association Limited. As the proceeds were on-lent in January 2015, Nil (2014: £59,849) fee has been deferred into 2016.
2015 | 2014 | ||
£ | £ | ||
11 CREDITORS: amounts falling due after more than one year | |||
Issue 2/10/13-5.058% (step up) Secured Bonds (semi-annual coupon) | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | |
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1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | ||
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On 2 October 2013, Knightstone Capital Plc issued a £100 million 35 year fixed rate bond with an annual coupon of 5.058% from issue until 30 November 2017 and 5.576% thereafter. Of the total issue, £50 million has been retained on behalf of the issuer and no interest is due on the retained element of the issue. £50 million is therefore repayable on 1 October 2048. The initial £1m was drawn at the date of issue and a further £49m will be received in November 2017 with
Knightstone Capital plc retaining £50m of the bonds to sell to investors in the future. The bond was issued at par.
Knightstone Capital Plc can on-lend all of its proceeds from capital market transactions to its immediate parent, Knightstone Housing Association Limited. The underlying assets of this issuance therefore belong to Knightstone Housing Association Limited which are held through a security trust arrangement with the Prudential Trustee Company Limited.
The drawn elements of the bond will be secured by fixed charges over property security of Knightstone Housing Association Limited at their Market Value as defined by VS 3.2 of the RICS Valuation - Professional Standards 2012.
No collateral has been called in the period.
All of Knightstone Capital Plc's costs relating to providing funding services were met by Knightstone Housing Association Limited.
The Company currently borrows funds on a fixed rate basis from the capital markets and will in future on-lend these funds to its immediate parent company, Knightstone Housing Association Limited on the same fixed rate basis. As such, the Company does not bear any exposure to interest rate risk. All of the Company's capital markets financing proceeds will be available to be on-lent to Knightstone Housing Association Limited, which represents the only credit risk to the Company. This credit risk is mitigated through a number of factors, including the housing asset security which stands behind the loan, the overall HCA assessment of the Group's financial viability and the contractual protection of the loan agreement between the Company and Knightstone Housing Association Limited. No further qualitative disclosures about credit, liquidity and market risks are applicable.
The market value of the financial instrument as at 31 March 2015 is estimated as £1.4 million. The debt has not been traded in the period between issue and at the year end its market value has been calculated against the price of a reference gilt (UKT 3.62% 2045) at 31 March 2015 plus a 130bps credit spread, which is appropriate to Knightstone.
| 2015 | 2014 | |
£ | £ | ||
12 ORDINARY SHARE CAPITAL | |||
Issued share capital | |||
Ordinary shares of £1 each | 50,000 | 50,000 | |
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Knightstone Housing Association Limited is the registered holder of 50,000 shares of £1 of which £12,500 has been paid. The shares were issued on incorporation of the Company on 16 September 2013. Knightstone Housing Association Limited acquired its 50,000 ordinary shares on 16 September 2013 and paid £12,500. The remaining unpaid share capital (£37,500) is shown within debtors (note 7).
13 MOVEMENT IN SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS
Share capital £ | Reserves £ | Total £ | ||
At 1 April 2014 | 50,000 | - | 50,000 | |
Profit for the financial year | - | 11,702 | 11,702 | |
Gift Aid donation made to Knightstone Housing Association Limited |
(11,702) |
(11,702) | ||
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As at 31 March 2015 | 50,000 | - | 50,000 | |
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14 ULTIMATE PARENT UNDERTAKING
The immediate parent company is Knightstone Housing Association Limited, a charitable housing association and a registered society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 with registration number 21080R and registered with the Regulator pursuant to sections 111 and 112 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Registration No. L0291).
The directors of Knightstone Capital Plc regard Knightstone Housing Group Limited as the ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party. Knightstone Housing Group Limited is a housing association and a registered society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 with registration number 29867R and registered with the Regulator pursuant to sections 111 and 112 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Registration No. L4436).
The results of Knightstone Capital Plc are consolidated within Knightstone Housing Group Limited only.
15 RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURE
Knightstone Capital Plc has taken advantage of the exemption contained in FRS8 - "Related Party Disclosure", and has therefore not disclosed transactions or balances with entities which are wholly owned members of the Group. There were no other related party transactions, other than those with other Group undertakings. Copies of Group accounts are available from the registered office at Knightstone Housing, Weston Gateway Business Park, Weston-super-Mare, BS24 7JP.