WATKIN JONES PLC (WJG) — FY23 results for the year ended 30 September 2023

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the WATKIN JONES PLC Full Year Results for the Year Ended 09/30/2023 Investor Presentation. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review your questions submitted today, and we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll. Sure the company will be most grateful for your participation. And I'd now like to hand over to CEO, Alex Pease. Good afternoon. Good afternoon all, and thank you very much for joining us. Yeah. As discussed, I'm now gonna present to you the financial results for 2023 for WATKIN JONES Group. I'm gonna be joined in a presentation by Sarah Sargent, our CFO, and I'll just move on to our agenda. So the agenda for this morning will begin with a short overview from myself reflecting on the last year for looking at some of the key focus areas for the business as we move forwards. Sarah will then take you through the f y twenty three financial performance and the outlook for FY 2024 and also touch on our progress with ESG and our future foundations program. I'll provide an update on the market and the robust fundamentals supporting the sectors we operate before taking some time to review some of the areas and opportunities where we believe we can broaden our resilience, adaptability and earning potential as a business. The presentation should take thirty five to forty minutes, and then we will open the floor to questions. So move moving through to the FY 2023 overview. I think it it won't surprise anyone. 2023 represented an extremely challenging year for both the wider economy, UK real estate generally and also the WATKIN JONES business. Significan...