BRADFORD CITY CHALLENGE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

02652370 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1991-10-08

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 21.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of professional membership organisations

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). 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 21.2y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 21.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

45 officers (4 active, 45 linked, 41 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

11 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

179 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	300	200

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (97 events)Click to expand

2026-03-31
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2024-12-20
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2023-03-15
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2023-02-06
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officers · TM01
2023-02-06
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2023-02-02
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WAINWRIGHT, Stephen resigned
director
2023-02-01
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WAINWRIGHT, Alan Frederick appointed
director
2023-02-01
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WAINWRIGHT, Stephen appointed
director
2023-01-18
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MUKHTAR, Kausar, Cllr appointed
director
2022-03-29
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2021-11-16
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2021-08-02
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2020-10-27
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2020-10-27
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2020-10-01
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JOHNSON, Michael resigned
director
2019-12-17
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2019-11-30
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KIELY, Constance Margaret resigned
director
2018-12-24
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2017-12-18
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2017-09-26
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WRIGHT, Stephen Thomas appointed
director
2017-09-25
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CHILD, Dennis resigned
director
2017-09-25
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RICHARDSON, David George resigned
director
2010-10-08
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CAIRNS, James Anthony resigned
director
2010-10-08
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JOHNSON, Michael appointed
director
2006-02-28
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RICHARDSON, David George appointed
director
2005-09-07
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HINDLEY, John Timothy Talbot resigned
director
2005-04-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
2001-09-21
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BURTON, Brian resigned
director
2001-09-21
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HINDLEY, John Timothy Talbot appointed
director
2000-04-30
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CHILD, Dennis appointed
director
2000-04-30
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KAYE, Marion Josephine resigned
director
2000-04-30
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KIELY, Constance Margaret appointed
director
2000-04-30
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PEACOCK, William resigned
director
1999-12-31
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AIMSON, Geoff resigned
director
1999-01-20
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AIMSON, Geoff appointed
director
1999-01-20
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BOWSER, Wayne resigned
director
1999-01-20
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CAIRNS, James Anthony appointed
director
1999-01-20
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MAHON, Timothy Joseph resigned
director
1998-01-28
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BIGGIN, Alan Keith appointed
secretary
1998-01-28
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BOWSER, Wayne resigned
secretary
1997-10-28
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BARRACLOUGH, Robert James resigned
secretary
1997-10-28
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BOWSER, Wayne appointed
secretary
1997-10-28
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BARRACLOUGH, Robert James resigned
director
1997-10-28
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BOWSER, Wayne appointed
director
1997-10-25
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PEACOCK, William appointed
director
1997-04-30
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BARRACLOUGH, Robert James appointed
secretary

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Owner dependency

65/100

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 80 — succession pressure is live.

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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 35 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Stephen Thomas Wright Individual · British · DOB 06/1961 · age 65	—	—	board controlboard control	26/09/2017

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Michael Johnsonceased 01/10/2020· significant influence

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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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1991-10-08

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC94120 — Activities of professional membership organisations

Registered office

The Counting House Tower Buildings

Wade House Road

Shelf

West Yorkshire

HX3 7PB

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-22

Last: 2025-10-08

Officers (4 active · 41 resigned)

BIGGIN, Alan Keith→

secretary · appointed 1998-01-28

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Active

MUKHTAR, Kausar, Cllr→

director · ~49y · appointed 2023-01-18

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Active

WAINWRIGHT, Alan Frederick→

director · ~80y · appointed 2023-02-01

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Active

WRIGHT, Stephen Thomas→

director · ~65y · appointed 2017-09-26

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Active

BARRACLOUGH, Robert James→

secretary · appointed 1997-04-30 · resigned 1997-10-28

Resigned

BOWSER, Wayne→

secretary · appointed 1997-10-28 · resigned 1998-01-28

Resigned

WILDIG, Judith Ann→

secretary · resigned 1997-04-30

Resigned

AIMSON, Geoff→

director · ~81y · appointed 1999-01-20 · resigned 1999-12-31

Resigned

BARRACLOUGH, Robert James→

director · ~84y · appointed 1997-03-26 · resigned 1997-10-28

Resigned

BARRETT, Guy Crossland→

director · ~101y · appointed 1995-08-10 · resigned 1997-03-26

Resigned

BOWSER, Wayne→

director · ~74y · appointed 1997-10-28 · resigned 1999-01-20

Resigned

BURTON, Brian→

director · ~85y · appointed 1997-04-30 · resigned 2001-09-21

Resigned

CAIRNS, James Anthony→

director · ~95y · appointed 1999-01-20 · resigned 2010-10-08

Resigned

CAIRNS, James Anthony→

director · ~95y · appointed 1994-07-21 · resigned 1997-04-30

Resigned

CHILD, Dennis→

director · ~80y · appointed 2000-04-30 · resigned 2017-09-25

Resigned

CLARK, Richard Anthony→

director · ~78y · appointed 1993-07-08 · resigned 1993-07-08

Resigned

CLARK, Richard Anthony→

director · ~78y · resigned 1994-01-31

Resigned

COUSINS, Anne Christine→

director · ~79y · appointed 1995-08-10 · resigned 1997-03-26

Resigned

DIN, Nazmin→

director · ~64y · appointed 1995-12-05 · resigned 1997-03-26

Resigned

FLANAGAN, Thomas Bernard→

director · ~67y · resigned 1993-03-09

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council	Legal charge	6 properties	27/04/2005	—

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Recent filings (179 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2026-03-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-10-09

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-12-20

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-10-08

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-12-21

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-10-17

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-03-15

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2023-02-07

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2023-02-06

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2023-02-06

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2023-02-06

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-10-10

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2022-03-29

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2021-11-16

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-10-19