AVIS INSURANCE SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01742874 · ltd · incorporated 1983-07-28
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 23.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
£419.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of insurance agents and brokers
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). 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: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 23.6y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.6 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: 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
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
110 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 £419,826
Cash YoY
+30%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1.2m
↑ 30% YoY
Net Worth
£420k
↑ 14% YoY
Current Assets
£1.9m
↑ 31% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£375k£749k£1.1m£1.5m£1.9mAug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Total assets£423.5k£373.9k
Current assets£1.87M£1.43M
Cash£1.19M£915.8k
Debtors£680.3k£510.0k
Net assets£419.8k£369.0k

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

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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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-16
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  2. 2024-11-12
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  3. 2023-10-20
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  4. 2022-11-09
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  5. 2021-11-02
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  6. 2020-12-01
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-02-06
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2019-11-14
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-12-06
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  10. 2017-11-07
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  11. 2017-09-07
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  12. 2017-09-07
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    officers · AP01
  13. 2017-09-01
    ➕
    SELBY, Christopher appointed
    director
  14. 2017-09-01
    ➕
    SELBY, Michael appointed
    director
  15. 2017-01-20
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  16. 2017-01-20
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    officers · TM02
  17. 2016-11-16
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    accounts · AA
  18. 2016-08-31
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    TWO RIVERS ACCOUNTING SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  19. 2016-08-31
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    BROADWISH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2002-11-29
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  21. 2002-03-01
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    JEWITT, Anthony George resigned
    secretary
  22. 2002-03-01
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    BROADWISH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2002-03-01
    ➖
    WARR, Derek Leonard resigned
    director
  24. 1996-07-01
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    WARR, Derek Leonard appointed
    director
  25. 1994-04-30
    ➖
    JEWITT, Gerald resigned
    director
  26. 1983-07-28
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AVIS INSURANCE SERVICES 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
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Anthony George Jewitt
Individual · British · DOB 08/1965 · age 61
50–75%
—50-75% 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
Incorporated1983-07-28
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC66220 — Activities of insurance agents and brokers

Registered office

7 Lake End Court
Taplow Road
Maidenhead
SL6 0JQ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-14
Last: 2025-12-31

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

TWO RIVERS ACCOUNTING SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2016-08-31
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Active
JEWITT, Anthony George→
director · ~70y
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Active
SELBY, Christopher→
director · ~42y · appointed 2017-09-01
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Active
SELBY, Michael→
director · ~41y · appointed 2017-09-01
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Active
JEWITT, Anthony George→
secretary · resigned 2002-03-01
Resigned
BROADWISH LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2002-03-01 · resigned 2016-08-31
Resigned
JEWITT, Gerald→
director · ~59y · resigned 1994-04-30
Resigned
WARR, Derek Leonard→
director · ~74y · appointed 1996-07-01 · resigned 2002-03-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property29/11/2002—
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Recent filings (110 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-01
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-02-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-11-14