B.L.MITCHAM & SON LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00515410 · ltd · incorporated 1953-01-23
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 70.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£-65.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 86). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 70.9y

50/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 70.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
99 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £65,178

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
-£65k
↑ 38% YoY
Current Assets
£240k
↓ 24% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
-£105k-£21k£63k£147k£231k£316kSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£124.3k£91.3k
Current assets£240.5k£315.6k
Debtors£18.3k£52.3k
Net assets£-65.2k£-105.2k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-25
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  3. 2025-05-19
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    officers · CH03
  4. 2024-09-22
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  5. 2024-06-25
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  6. 2023-09-15
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  7. 2023-06-22
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    accounts · AA01
  8. 2022-09-29
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  9. 2021-06-30
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-09-29
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-06-27
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-04-01
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2018-06-28
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-05-30
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  15. 2017-08-04
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  16. 2017-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 1999-01-01
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    MITCHAM, William John appointed
    director
  18. 1998-10-21
    ➕
    HENRY, Katherine Frances appointed
    secretary
  19. 1998-10-21
    ➖
    ALEY, Ann Frances resigned
    secretary
  20. 1996-11-12
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  21. 1986-07-24
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    Charge satisfied #2
  22. 1986-05-22
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  23. 1982-12-10
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 1955-07-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Halifax Building Society
  25. 1953-01-23
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    Company incorporated
    As B.L.MITCHAM & SON LIMITED

Owner dependency

100/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MITCHAM" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 73 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Brian William Mitcham
Individual · British · DOB 04/1940 · age 86
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1953-01-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Shrubbery Farm The Green
Hessett
Bury St. Edmunds
Suffolk
IP30 9BE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-28
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-14
Last: 2026-04-30

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

HENRY, Katherine Frances→
secretary · appointed 1998-10-21
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Active
MITCHAM, Brian William→
director · ~86y
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Active
MITCHAM, William John→
director · ~51y · appointed 1999-01-01
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Active
ALEY, Ann Frances→
secretary · resigned 1998-10-21
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property12/11/1996—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property22/05/1986—
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property10/12/198224/07/1986
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Halifax Building Society
Mortgage1 property08/07/1955—
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Recent filings (99 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-25
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-05-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-22
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-06-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-15
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-06-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-27