WALSALL BUSINESS SUPPORT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

00036148 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1892-04-01

Investment thesis

Looks cheap but ownership + security both unclear — probable value trap.

Why interesting: Headline metrics may be attractive.

Why risky: No PSC visibility combined with multiple live charges; transacting likely slow and expensive.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 48.7y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Jul 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (65/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 48.7y

70/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 48.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (74/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

80 officers (7 active, 80 linked, 72 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

214 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Average employees	5	400

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (138 events)Click to expand

2025-11-11
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DAVIS, John Ernest appointed
director
2025-06-02
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2025-06-02
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2025-05-13
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officers · CH01
2025-04-24
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officers · CH01
2025-03-18
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HENDERSON, Angela Anne appointed
director
2025-01-14
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accounts · AA
2024-04-30
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2023-02-07
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2022-09-26
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2022-04-19
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2021-06-29
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COLBOURNE, Robert appointed
director
2021-04-02
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LOWE, Brian Frank resigned
director
2020-01-21
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Charge satisfied #2
2020-01-21
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Charge satisfied #1
2018-07-31
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BAKER, John Derek resigned
director
2018-03-08
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HOWELL, Adam Charles Frederick appointed
director
2010-02-11
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
2005-06-13
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CRUNDWELL, Robert Frank resigned
director
2004-03-09
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BAKER, John Derek appointed
secretary
2004-03-09
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PUNCH, John Nicholas appointed
director
2004-03-08
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JOBSON, Timothy Akers resigned
secretary
2003-09-09
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ADCOCK, Mark Hedley resigned
director
2003-09-09
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ARNOLD, Susan Pauline resigned
director
2003-08-04
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GRUBB, David John resigned
secretary
2003-08-04
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JOBSON, Timothy Akers appointed
secretary
2002-07-24
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BRADFORD, Philip Stuart resigned
director
2002-07-24
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SWALLOW, Michael Andrew resigned
director
2002-06-11
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GRUBB, David John appointed
secretary
2002-06-11
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TENNANT, Nicholas John resigned
secretary
2001-10-02
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ADCOCK, Mark Hedley appointed
director
2001-10-02
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CHALLENDER, Barry James resigned
director
2001-03-26
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BROWN, Michael David resigned
director
2001-03-26
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CARVER, David Lewis resigned
director
2001-03-26
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CHALLENDER, Barry James appointed
director
2001-03-26
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LINDSEY, David Ian resigned
director
2001-03-26
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PRITCHARD, Charles Frederick resigned
director
2001-03-26
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PUNCH, John Nicholas resigned
director
2001-03-26
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SCOTT, Derek resigned
director

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Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1892-04-01

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Ptp Training Essex Terrace

Intown

Walsall

WS1 1SQ

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-25

Last: 2026-05-11