ALMODINGTON NURSERIES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
01710615 · ltd · incorporated 1983-03-29
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 42.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£860.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01130
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (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. 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
3 live charges · oldest 42.5y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 42.5 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 (80/100)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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
116 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 · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £859,991
Cash YoY
+1%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£26k
~ YoY
Net Worth
£860k
↑ 3.4% YoY
Current Assets
£26k
↓ 23% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £1.09M | £1.06M |
| Current assets | £25.8k | £33.8k |
| Cash | £25.6k | £25.4k |
| Debtors | £228 | £8.4k |
| Net assets | £860.0k | £832.1k |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
4
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2026-02-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-02-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-04-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-05-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-02-08📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2023-12-19➖SWAIN, John Laurence resigneddirector
- 2023-06-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-02-10📄second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-dateconfirmation-statement · RP04CS01
- 2022-06-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-06-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-03-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-02-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2020-02-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2019-05-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-06-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-09-26📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2007-11-09➕WADE, Jonathan Charles appointeddirector
- 2003-08-27➕WADE, Ann appointeddirector
- 2003-04-25➕WADE, Ann appointedsecretary
- 2003-04-25➖WADE, Christopher John resignedsecretary
- 2003-04-25➖BOXALL, Beatrice Rose resigneddirector
- 2001-11-08🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1999-02-26➕BOXALL, Beatrice Rose appointeddirector
- 1999-01-11➖BOXALL, Ernest William, Mister resigneddirector
- 1984-09-12🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1983-12-31🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1983-03-29🏢Company incorporatedAs ALMODINGTON NURSERIES LIMITED
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 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 candidateStrong 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 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 43 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Christopher John Wade Individual · British · DOB 11/1942 · age 84 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 31/01/2017 |
Mrs Ann Wade Individual · British · DOB 08/1941 · age 85 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 31/01/2017 |
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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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1983-03-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01130 — SIC 01130
Registered office
76 Aldwick Road
Bognor Regis
West Sussex
PO21 2PE
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-14
Last: 2026-01-31
Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)
Active
Active
Active
WADE, Jonathan Charles→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2007-11-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WADE, Christopher John→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2003-04-25
BOXALL, Beatrice Rose→
Resigneddirector · ~109y · appointed 1999-02-26 · resigned 2003-04-25
BOXALL, Ernest William, Mister→
Resigneddirector · ~109y · resigned 1999-01-11
SWAIN, John Laurence→
Resigneddirector · ~94y · resigned 2023-12-19
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Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Deed of charge | 1 property | 08/11/2001 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 12/09/1984 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 31/12/1983 | — |
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Recent filings (116 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-02-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-09
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-02-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-13
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2023-02-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-25