COSFORD CARAVANS & MOTORHOMES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01700064 · ltd · incorporated 1983-02-17
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
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£994.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45190
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 3 lenders · oldest 42.2y

15/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 42.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · 3 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (2 active, 10 linked, 8 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
119 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
75
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 £994,078
Cash draining
Cash down 69% YoY
Cash YoY
-69%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£34k
↓ 69% YoY
Net Worth
£994k
↑ 20% YoY
Current Assets
£3.6m
↑ 27% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£713k£1.4m£2.1m£2.9m£3.6mDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£1.03M£858.5k
Current assets£3.56M£2.82M
Cash£33.7k£109.7k
Debtors£417.3k£436.0k
Net assets£994.1k£826.9k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-28
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  2. 2025-08-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-08-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-09-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-02-17
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  6. 2023-02-02
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    GUY, Margaret Joyce appointed
    director
  7. 2023-02-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  8. 2023-02-02
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  9. 2022-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-11-24
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    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  11. 2021-11-24
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    change-of-name-notice
    change-of-name · CONNOT
  12. 2021-09-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-04-01
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    EVANS, Christopher Wayne appointed
    director
  15. 2020-04-01
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    EVANS, Christopher Wayne resigned
    director
  16. 2020-04-01
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  17. 2020-04-01
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  18. 2020-03-17
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    address · AD01
  19. 2020-03-16
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  20. 2020-03-16
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  21. 2020-03-11
    ➕
    EVANS, Christopher Wayne appointed
    director
  22. 2020-03-11
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    HUGHES, Idris Mervyn resigned
    director
  23. 2019-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  24. 2019-06-11
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    BYWATER, Anthony Thomas resigned
    director
  25. 2019-03-29
    ➖
    HIGGINS, Stephen Gilbert resigned
    secretary
  26. 2007-03-27
    ➖
    BYRNE, Penelope Janet resigned
    director
  27. 2007-03-27
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  28. 2004-12-03
    ➕
    BYRNE, Penelope Janet appointed
    director
  29. 2004-10-31
    ➖
    BETTS, Marjorie Ada Laura resigned
    director
  30. 1994-03-31
    ➖
    HARPER, Elsie Kathleen resigned
    director
  31. 1994-02-17
    ➖
    HARPER, Elsie Kathleen resigned
    secretary
  32. 1994-02-17
    ➕
    HIGGINS, Stephen Gilbert appointed
    secretary
  33. 1992-09-28
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    Charge satisfied #2
  34. 1990-04-26
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  35. 1989-09-11
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Mercantile Credit Company Limited
  36. 1984-05-04
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: United Dominions Trust Limited
  37. 1983-02-17
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    Company incorporated
    As COSFORD CARAVANS & MOTORHOMES 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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
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 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 43 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

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

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Telford Investments Limited
Corporate parent
🏛️
Cosford Caravans Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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COSFORD CARAVANS & MOTORHOMES LIMITED
This company · 01700064

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Cosford Caravans Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
Telford Investments Limited
Corporate entity
——sig. influencesignificant influence11/03/2020
Mr Christopher Wayne Evans
Individual · British · DOB 09/1951 · age 75
——sig. influencesignificant influence11/03/2020

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

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8 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
Incorporated1983-02-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45190 — SIC 45190

Registered office

International House 6 Market Street
Oakengates
Telford
TF2 6EF
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-17
Last: 2025-09-03

Officers (2 active · 8 resigned)

EVANS, Christopher Wayne→
director · ~75y · appointed 2020-04-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GUY, Margaret Joyce→
director · ~77y · appointed 2023-02-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HARPER, Elsie Kathleen→
secretary · resigned 1994-02-17
Resigned
HIGGINS, Stephen Gilbert→
secretary · appointed 1994-02-17 · resigned 2019-03-29
Resigned
BETTS, Marjorie Ada Laura→
director · ~114y · resigned 2004-10-31
Resigned
BYRNE, Penelope Janet→
director · ~85y · appointed 2004-12-03 · resigned 2007-03-27
Resigned
BYWATER, Anthony Thomas→
director · ~85y · resigned 2019-06-11
Resigned
EVANS, Christopher Wayne→
director · ~72y · appointed 2020-03-11 · resigned 2020-04-01
Resigned
HARPER, Elsie Kathleen→
director · ~97y · resigned 1994-03-31
Resigned
HUGHES, Idris Mervyn→
director · ~77y · resigned 2020-03-11
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
Guarantee & debenture1 property27/03/2007—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge2 properties26/04/1990—
satisfied
Mercantile Credit Company
Mercantile Credit Company Limited
Charge1 property11/09/198928/09/1992
outstanding
United Dominions Trust
United Dominions Trust Limited
Legal charge1 property04/05/1984—
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Recent filings (119 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-11-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-07
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-02-17
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-02-02
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-08
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2021-11-24
change-of-name-notice
change-of-name · CONNOT
2021-11-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-20