ALNWICKBRIDGE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01431485 · ltd · incorporated 1979-06-20
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 38.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£2
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-trading company
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Dormant / non-trading with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 85). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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

1 live charge · oldest 38.6y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 38.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (6 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
108 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
85
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
Positive net assets
Net assets £2

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
£2
~ YoY
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£1£1£2£2Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Total assets£2£2
Debtors£2£2
Net assets£2£2

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • 1 accounts
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-10-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-01-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-12-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-08-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2019-08-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2019-08-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2018-11-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2018-10-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-11-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-01-27
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 1995-05-31
    AGAR, Sally Jane appointed
    director
  17. 1987-10-21
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  18. 1979-06-20
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    Company incorporated
    As ALNWICKBRIDGE 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
  • -5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — 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 85 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 47 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Peter Read
Individual · British · DOB 03/1941 · age 85
2550%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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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
Incorporated1979-06-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

Beck Garth
Humbleton
East Yorkshire
HU11 4NL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-19
Last: 2026-01-05

Officers (6 active · 0 resigned)

READ, Peter
secretary
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Active
AGAR, Sally Jane
director · ~57y · appointed 1995-05-31
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Active
READ, Dean Thomas
director · ~60y
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Active
READ, Mark
director · ~59y
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Active
READ, Peter
director · ~85y
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Active
READ, Sheila Violet
director · ~82y
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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
Single debenture1 property21/10/1987
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Recent filings (108 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2026-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-01-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-01-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-11
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-12-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-08-16