ATWELL LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
02450943 · ltd · incorporated 1989-12-11
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 32.3y 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
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Machining
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 28990SIC 28990
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). 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 32.3y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 32.3 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
5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 6 total, 6 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
121 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.
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 · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-04-30 | 2024-04-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 4 | 400 |
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
1
filing
- • 1 address
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2026-06-10📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2025-12-16📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2025-11-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-11-20➕HOPWOOD, Maxine appointeddirector
- 2025-09-08📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-09-08📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-09-08📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-09-08📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2024-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-09-23📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2024-09-02📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2024-09-02📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2023-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-02-20📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2023-02-09📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2023-02-08📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2023-02-06📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2023-01-27📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AAMD
- 2022-10-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-04-27📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2022-04-04📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2022-04-02📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2016-04-01➕PASTOR, Tracey Lorraine appointeddirector
- 2004-08-01➕PASTOR, Tracey Lorraine appointedsecretary
- 2004-08-01➖CAMERON, Margaret resignedsecretary
- 1994-03-18🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1989-12-11🏢Company incorporatedAs ATWELL LIMITED
Owner dependency
65/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
65/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- 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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Tracey Lorraine Pastor Individual · British · DOB 09/1965 · age 61 | 50–75% | 50–75% | 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting | 27/08/2025 |
Maxine Hopwood Individual · British · DOB 03/1967 · age 59 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 27/08/2025 |
4 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mrs Margaret Cameronceased 27/08/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
- Dr David Stuart Cameronceased 27/08/2025· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting
- Mrs Margaret Cameronceased 25/03/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
- Mrs Tracey Lorraine Pastorceased 04/02/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A V THERMOFORMING LIMITED→ 08907666 · est 2014 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 12y | — | — |
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
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
Incorporated1989-12-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25620 — Machining
Registered office
Croft Chambers
11bancroft
Hitchin
SG5 1JQ
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-22
Last: 2025-09-08
Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)
PASTOR, Tracey Lorraine→
Activesecretary · appointed 2004-08-01
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Active
HOPWOOD, Maxine→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2025-11-20
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PASTOR, Tracey Lorraine→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2016-04-01
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CAMERON, Margaret→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2004-08-01
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 18/03/1994 | — |
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Recent filings (121 total)
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-06-10
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-08
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-09-08
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-09-08
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-09-08
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2024-09-23
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-09-02
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2024-09-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-31