ADDSERVICE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02483490 · ltd · incorporated 1990-03-20
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 33.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£2.90M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of investment trusts
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 72). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 33.8y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 33.8 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 (70/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (2 active, 10 linked, 7 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
112 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 · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,904,966

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£28k
Net Worth
£2.9m
Current Assets
£3.0m
Current Liabilities
—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-31
Total assets£2.96M
Current assets£2.96M
Cash£27.6k
Debtors£1.08M
Net assets£2.90M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-09-19
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2024-10-31
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  4. 2024-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-07-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-02-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-08-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-04-28
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2021-04-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2020-10-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-01-30
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  12. 2019-10-24
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  13. 2019-10-24
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  14. 2019-10-24
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  15. 2019-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-02-18
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    accounts-amended-with-made-up-date
    accounts · AAMD
  17. 2019-01-19
    ➖
    DERBYSHIRE, Edward resigned
    secretary
  18. 2019-01-19
    ➖
    DERBYSHIRE, Edward resigned
    director
  19. 2018-06-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  20. 2014-10-01
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    DERBYSHIRE, Thomas appointed
    director
  21. 2014-10-01
    ➕
    DERBYSHIRE, Edward appointed
    director
  22. 2013-09-19
    ➖
    HILLDRUP, Josephine Barbara resigned
    director
  23. 2013-08-09
    ➕
    SHEPHERD, Patricia Carole appointed
    director
  24. 2006-06-08
    ➕
    DERBYSHIRE, Edward appointed
    secretary
  25. 2006-06-08
    ➖
    HILLDRUP, Josephine Barbara resigned
    secretary
  26. 2006-06-08
    ➖
    DERBYSHIRE, Barbara Sylvia Dawn Kim resigned
    director
  27. 2006-06-08
    ➕
    HILLDRUP, Josephine Barbara appointed
    director
  28. 2006-06-08
    ➖
    SHEPHERD, Patricia Carole resigned
    director
  29. 2004-12-09
    ➖
    DERBYSHIRE, Edward resigned
    director
  30. 2004-12-09
    ➕
    SHEPHERD, Patricia Carole appointed
    director
  31. 2004-12-08
    ➕
    DERBYSHIRE, Barbara Sylvia Dawn Kim appointed
    director
  32. 1995-09-11
    ➖
    DERBYSHIRE, Angela Jeanie resigned
    secretary
  33. 1995-09-11
    ➕
    HILLDRUP, Josephine Barbara appointed
    secretary
  34. 1992-07-13
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  35. 1990-03-20
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ADDSERVICE 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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 13 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 36 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1990-03-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64301 — Activities of investment trusts

Registered office

4 Creakle Drive
Poynton
Cheshire
SK12 1FZ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-22
Last: 2026-03-08

Officers (2 active · 8 resigned)

DERBYSHIRE, Thomas→
director · ~46y · appointed 2014-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SHEPHERD, Patricia Carole→
director · ~72y · appointed 2013-08-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DERBYSHIRE, Angela Jeanie→
secretary · resigned 1995-09-11
Resigned
DERBYSHIRE, Edward→
secretary · appointed 2006-06-08 · resigned 2019-01-19
Resigned
HILLDRUP, Josephine Barbara→
secretary · appointed 1995-09-11 · resigned 2006-06-08
Resigned
DERBYSHIRE, Barbara Sylvia Dawn Kim→
director · ~46y · appointed 2004-12-08 · resigned 2006-06-08
Resigned
DERBYSHIRE, Edward→
director · ~96y · appointed 2014-10-01 · resigned 2019-01-19
Resigned
DERBYSHIRE, Edward→
director · ~96y · resigned 2004-12-09
Resigned
HILLDRUP, Josephine Barbara→
director · ~82y · appointed 2006-06-08 · resigned 2013-09-19
Resigned
SHEPHERD, Patricia Carole→
director · ~72y · appointed 2004-12-09 · resigned 2006-06-08
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property13/07/1992—
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Recent filings (112 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-09-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-19
change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2024-10-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-28
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-04-28
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-04-15