CONISHOLME FARMS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
02303142 · ltd · incorporated 1988-10-07
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 27.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). 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 27.8y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 27.8 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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 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
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.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-04-30 | 2024-04-30 |
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| Average employees | 300 | 300 |
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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See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
2
filings
- • 2 capital
Last 90 days
6
filings
- • 4 capital
- • 1 resolution
- • 1 officers
Last 180 days
9
filings
- • 4 capital
- • 3 officers
- • 1 resolution
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2026-06-02📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2026-06-02📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2026-05-02📄capital-alter-shares-subdivisioncapital · SH02
- 2026-05-02📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2026-04-15📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2026-04-14📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2026-04-02➖STOUT, Lionel Alty resigneddirector
- 2026-03-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-03-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-12-23📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-12-22📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-12-22📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-12-22📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-01-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-02-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-02-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2018-11-19➖THOMPSON, Jeffrey Bertram resigneddirector
- 2017-12-01➕THOMPSON, Alexander Jeffrey appointeddirector
- 1998-08-26🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 1997-05-01➕THOMPSON, Sally Louise appointeddirector
- 1995-02-25➕THOMPSON, Sally Louise appointedsecretary
- 1995-02-25➖STOUT, Lionel Alty resignedsecretary
- 1988-10-07🏢Company incorporatedAs CONISHOLME FARMS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
Owner dependency
91/100
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
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 38 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 |
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Mr Alexander Jeffrey Thompson Individual · British · DOB 06/1995 · age 31 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 25/11/2019 |
Mrs Sally Louise Thompson Individual · British · DOB 05/1961 · age 65 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 01/07/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mr Jeffrey Bertram Thompsonceased 25/11/2019· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1988-10-07
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999
Registered office
Cherry Tree Farm Fen Lane
Conisholme
Louth
Lincolnshire
LN11 7LU
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-04
Last: 2026-02-18
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
THOMPSON, Sally Louise→
Activesecretary · appointed 1995-02-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
THOMPSON, Alexander Jeffrey→
Activedirector · ~31y · appointed 2017-12-01
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THOMPSON, Sally Louise→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 1997-05-01
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STOUT, Lionel Alty→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 1995-02-25
STOUT, Lionel Alty→
Resigneddirector · ~79y · resigned 2026-04-02
THOMPSON, Jeffrey Bertram→
Resigneddirector · ~95y · resigned 2018-11-19
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Mortgage debenture | 1 property | 26/08/1998 | — |
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Recent filings (110 total)
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2026-06-02
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2026-06-02
capital-alter-shares-subdivision
capital · SH02
2026-05-02
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-05-02
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2026-04-15
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-04-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-22
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-12-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-26