AHA COURSES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02132281 · ltd · incorporated 1987-05-18
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 22.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£78.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: General secondary education
Sector: Education
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 85320Technical and vocational secondary education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 67). 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 22.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.1 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, 2 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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
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
102 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
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 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £78,303

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£100k
Net Worth
£78k
Current Assets
£233k
Current Liabilities
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£0£47k£93k£140k£186k£233kDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£101.9k—
Current assets£232.9k—
Cash£99.6k—
Debtors£133.3k—
Net assets£78.3k—
Average employees—600

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
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-09
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  2. 2025-09-09
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  4. 2024-10-15
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  7. 2024-10-15
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  8. 2024-09-30
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  9. 2023-09-29
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  10. 2022-10-06
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  11. 2021-06-30
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  12. 2021-05-18
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  13. 2020-06-30
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  14. 2019-06-27
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  15. 2018-06-26
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  16. 2017-06-29
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  17. 2004-05-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Gobind Bhojwani Indra Gobind Bhojwani and Mukesh Gobind Bhojwani
  18. 1993-10-01
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    CARR-GOMM, Sarah resigned
    director
  19. 1987-05-18
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    Company incorporated
    As AHA COURSES LIMITED

Owner dependency

81/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 39 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 Nicholas Mark Ross
Individual · British · DOB 03/1962 · age 64
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% 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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1987-05-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85310 — General secondary education

Registered office

16 Broad Street
Eye
IP23 7AF
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-14
Last: 2025-09-30

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ROSS, Barnaby David→
secretary
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Active
ROSS, Barnaby David→
director · ~67y
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Active
ROSS, Nicholas Mark→
director · ~64y
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Active
CARR-GOMM, Sarah→
director · ~72y · resigned 1993-10-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Gobind Bhojwani Indra Gobind Bhojwani and Mukesh Gobind Bhojwani
Rent deposit deed1 property13/05/2004—
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Recent filings (102 total)

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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-10-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-08
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accounts · AA
2025-09-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-16
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officers · CH01
2024-10-15
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-10-15
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-10-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-10-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
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2023-10-11
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accounts · AA
2023-09-29
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-12
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accounts · AA
2022-10-06
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confirmation-statement · CS01
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