AMBERLODGE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01067490 · ltd · incorporated 1972-08-23

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Performing arts

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

96090Other service activities n.e.c.

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 93-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 93). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

10 officers (5 active, 10 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

112 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Average employees	0	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

2025-08-12
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2025-06-23
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2025-01-13
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2025-01-10
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2025-01-10
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2025-01-10
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address · AD01
2024-08-21
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accounts · AA
2023-11-02
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accounts · AA
2023-09-04
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address · AD01
2022-08-22
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accounts · AA
2022-01-20
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accounts · AA
2020-12-18
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accounts · AA
2020-11-19
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officers · AP03
2020-11-19
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officers · TM02
2020-11-01
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EDEN, Clare appointed
secretary
2020-11-01
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CANE, Barbara June resigned
secretary
2019-11-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-01
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officers · AP03
2019-09-30
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officers · TM02
2019-09-02
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CANE, Barbara June appointed
secretary
2019-09-02
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SIMPSON, Barbara resigned
secretary
2003-03-25
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SIMPSON, Barbara appointed
secretary
2003-03-12
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PRIOR, Linda Mary resigned
secretary
2002-07-31
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LAND, Paulette resigned
secretary
2002-07-31
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PRIOR, Linda Mary appointed
secretary
2002-02-21
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THAW, John Edward resigned
director
1996-04-01
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HARVEY, Joanna appointed
director
1972-08-23
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Company incorporated
As AMBERLODGE LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 93 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 93 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 54 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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Ms Sheila Cameron Hancock Individual · British · DOB 02/1933 · age 93	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	27/07/2016

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

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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

Typeltd

Incorporated1972-08-23

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC90010 — Performing arts

Registered office

Donald Reid Group Limited 1010 Eskdale Road

Winnersh Triangle

Wokingham

RG41 5TS

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-02

Last: 2025-06-18