Cash Flow ForecastSeptember 2026  ·  September 2026 – August 2027

Include
Opening balance
as at 1 September
Turns negative
Low point
Low point, crews busy

Director’s summary  ·  September 2026

Twelve months from 1 September 2026, from the September cash flow workbook. The three switches in the bar above add the Staveley line, Craigens and Ousegate in any combination, and every figure on the page follows them.

Position

follows the switches

The runway  ·  month end balance

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September to February

phase one

On site and collecting

Every won job is on site to December and the receipts follow a month or two behind, the last St George’s Park payment landing in February. We collect at month end plus 30 and pay at month end plus 60, so the account holds while the work runs. November is the heavy month out, with the cost of the autumn’s work and £12,100 of corporation tax.

March and April

phase two

The tail

Only 6 Staveley Road is still paying in March, and April brings the last two Tetley Hall retentions. Against that the supplier bills for the winter are still being settled, and a £65,000 corporation tax payment lands in April, part covered by a VAT repayment.

May to August

phase three

No work booked

Nothing is won that pays in these months, so nothing comes in. The account carries only the fixed monthly cost of keeping the business open, and there is no project income to meet it.

The real size of the fall

what new work has to cover

Where the money goes

twelve months of payments
PaymentsTwelve monthsShare
Finance and taxes is after £163,829 of VAT repayments. Almost all the work is domestic reverse charge, so the quarterly VAT return is money back from HMRC.

Where the cash comes in

receipts by month
Receipts, all sources

ProjectIncome receivedPayments outNet into the accountLast receipt
Net is income less that project’s own direct costs inside the twelve months. Engineer pay is one shared line and is not split by project, so the net the book throws off is what pays the crews and the overheads. 6 Staveley Road nets little here because its advance was received in 2025 while its costs are still to pay.

The months in full

whole pounds

Collect what is owed

every pound early pushes the date out

Expected in September from work already done

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Retentions

RetentionAmountDueStatus
The Lawns retention has been due since 2 April 2026 and £7,875 remains overdue on that contract. It is not in the forecast, so anything collected is on top.

What the switches add

cash inside the twelve months

None of this is in the base forecast. Craigens and Ousegate are priced but not won, and are shown at the workbook value, unweighted. The Staveley line is the rest of the 2025 advance, earned as the remaining days are worked.

IncomeCostsNet cashFirst receipt

The trigger, and the review calendar

Decide by the end of October

If work that starts in January is not won by the end of October, we move to a survival plan. The plan and its start date are both decided at that review.

Sources and method

Figures are the September 2026 cash flow workbook, opening on the bank balance at 1 September 2026. The workbook holds the Staveley line, Craigens and Ousegate as separate rows outside its totals; this page adds each one only when its switch is on. Costs settle at month end plus 60 days and income at month end plus 30, Tetley Hall excepted at plus 60.