ALTON BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

🌳Matureactive
02722749 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 1992-06-12
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 31.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Other service activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 84). 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 31.3y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 31.3 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: medium (73/100)

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
19 officers (4 active, 19 linked, 17 with DOB)
88
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
107 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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 accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Nov 2024Nov 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-11-302024-11-30
Average employees400400

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
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (48 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-23
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2026-05-30
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    FAWCETT, John Michael David resigned
    director
  3. 2026-03-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-07-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-08-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-08-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-08-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-02-05
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  10. 2020-02-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-12-10
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    FAWCETT, John Michael David appointed
    director
  12. 2019-07-22
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  13. 2019-02-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-10-22
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    CUBITT, George Terence, Dr resigned
    director
  15. 2018-05-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-08-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2016-08-19
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-no-member-list
    annual-return · AR01
  18. 2016-04-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  19. 2013-10-23
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    STEAGGLES, Graham John resigned
    director
  20. 2013-10-12
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    CUBITT, George Terence, Dr appointed
    director
  21. 2012-02-01
    ➖
    MEAD, David Henry resigned
    director
  22. 2005-08-04
    ➕
    COHEN, Anthony Joseph appointed
    secretary
  23. 2005-08-04
    ➖
    NICHOLAS, Geoffrey Gordon resigned
    secretary
  24. 2005-08-04
    ➖
    NICHOLAS, Geoffrey Gordon resigned
    director
  25. 2003-06-09
    ➕
    COHEN, Anthony Joseph appointed
    director
  26. 2000-12-18
    ➖
    COHEN, Anthony Joseph resigned
    director
  27. 2000-11-17
    ➖
    BRINTON, Marion resigned
    director
  28. 2000-11-03
    ➕
    STEAGGLES, Graham John appointed
    director
  29. 2000-01-05
    ➖
    ISAAC, Robert William resigned
    director
  30. 1997-06-25
    ➖
    MANN, Jane resigned
    director
  31. 1996-10-22
    ➖
    CRABB, Lennox Gordon resigned
    director
  32. 1996-10-22
    ➕
    MEAD, David Henry appointed
    director
  33. 1996-04-03
    ➕
    BENDALL, Richard Terrey appointed
    director
  34. 1996-04-03
    ➖
    GOWMAN, Paul Henry resigned
    director
  35. 1996-01-22
    ➕
    COHEN, Anthony Joseph appointed
    director
  36. 1995-10-05
    ➕
    BRINTON, Marion appointed
    director
  37. 1995-04-13
    ➕
    MANN, Jane appointed
    director
  38. 1995-03-27
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Architectural Heritage Fund
  39. 1993-06-12
    ➖
    BENDALL, Richard Terrey resigned
    director
  40. 1993-06-12
    ➖
    BLOOMFIELD, Pual Victor resigned
    director
  41. 1993-06-12
    ➖
    COHEN, Anthony Joseph resigned
    director
  42. 1992-07-13
    ➕
    CAREY-THOMAS, Nicholas appointed
    director
  43. 1992-07-13
    ➕
    BENDALL, Richard Terrey appointed
    director
  44. 1992-07-13
    ➕
    BLOOMFIELD, Pual Victor appointed
    director
  45. 1992-07-13
    ➕
    COHEN, Anthony Joseph appointed
    director
  46. 1992-07-13
    ➕
    CRABB, Lennox Gordon appointed
    director
  47. 1992-07-13
    ➕
    ISAAC, Robert William appointed
    director
  48. 1992-06-12
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ALTON BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 84 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 34 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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🔒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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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-limited-exemption
Incorporated1992-06-12
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC96090 — Other service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Unit 2 Uffcott Farm
Uffcott
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN4 9NB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-08-31
Last made up to: 2025-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-24
Last: 2026-06-10

Officers (4 active · 15 resigned)

COHEN, Anthony Joseph→
secretary · appointed 2005-08-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BENDALL, Richard Terrey→
director · ~77y · appointed 1996-04-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CAREY-THOMAS, Nicholas→
director · ~84y · appointed 1992-07-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COHEN, Anthony Joseph→
director · ~82y · appointed 2003-06-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NICHOLAS, Geoffrey Gordon→
secretary · resigned 2005-08-04
Resigned
BENDALL, Richard Terrey→
director · ~77y · appointed 1992-07-13 · resigned 1993-06-12
Resigned
BLOOMFIELD, Pual Victor→
director · ~86y · appointed 1992-07-13 · resigned 1993-06-12
Resigned
BRINTON, Marion→
director · ~64y · appointed 1995-10-05 · resigned 2000-11-17
Resigned
COHEN, Anthony Joseph→
director · ~82y · appointed 1996-01-22 · resigned 2000-12-18
Resigned
COHEN, Anthony Joseph→
director · ~82y · appointed 1992-07-13 · resigned 1993-06-12
Resigned
CRABB, Lennox Gordon→
director · ~96y · appointed 1992-07-13 · resigned 1996-10-22
Resigned
CUBITT, George Terence, Dr→
director · ~77y · appointed 2013-10-12 · resigned 2018-10-22
Resigned
FAWCETT, John Michael David→
director · ~85y · appointed 2019-12-10 · resigned 2026-05-30
Resigned
GOWMAN, Paul Henry→
director · ~82y · resigned 1996-04-03
Resigned
ISAAC, Robert William→
director · ~83y · appointed 1992-07-13 · resigned 2000-01-05
Resigned
MANN, Jane→
director · ~79y · appointed 1995-04-13 · resigned 1997-06-25
Resigned
MEAD, David Henry→
director · ~71y · appointed 1996-10-22 · resigned 2012-02-01
Resigned
NICHOLAS, Geoffrey Gordon→
director · ~94y · resigned 2005-08-04
Resigned
STEAGGLES, Graham John→
director · ~74y · appointed 2000-11-03 · resigned 2013-10-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
The Architectural Heritage Fund
Legal charge1 property27/03/1995—
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Recent filings (107 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-25
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-06-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-08-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-08-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-08-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-22
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-02-05