BRAESTEADS FARM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

02785328 · ltd · incorporated 1993-02-01

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£-80.0k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01420

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

01450SIC 01450

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

14 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

80 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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £80,027

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

-£80k

↑ 9.2% YoY

Current Assets

£98k

↓ 9.5% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£-80.0k	£-88.1k
Current assets	£97.6k	£107.8k
Cash	—	£6.4k
Debtors	£28.2k	£31.5k
Net assets	£-80.0k	£-88.1k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-10-16
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2022-12-07
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2021-12-10
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2020-12-16
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2019-12-20
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2018-12-20
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2017-12-21
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2017-01-06
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2016-02-05
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2015-02-04
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2014-02-14
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annual-return · AR01
2005-01-31
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KITCHING, Dennis James resigned
director
1993-02-01
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Company incorporated
As BRAESTEADS FARM LIMITED
1993-02-01
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MILNE MOSER appointed
corporate-secretary
1993-02-01
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SCOTT, Francis Alexander appointed
director
1993-02-01
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SCOTT, Madeleine Mary appointed
director
1993-02-01
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1993-02-01
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1993-02-01
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KITCHING, Dennis James appointed
director

Owner dependency

91/100

Critical — business is the founder

The 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 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — 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 candidate

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. 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 33 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 33 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.)

Group structure

Matson Ground Estate Co Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Matson Ground Estate Co Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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BRAESTEADS FARM LIMITED

This company · 02785328

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Matson Ground Estate Co Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016
Miss Madeleine Mary Scott Individual · British · DOB 05/1957 · age 69	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016
Mr Francis Alexander Scott Individual · British · DOB 10/1959 · age 67	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1993-02-01

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01420 — SIC 01420

Registered office

100 Highgate

Kendal

Cumbria

LA9 4HN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-15

Last: 2026-02-01

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

MILNE MOSER→

corporate-secretary · appointed 1993-02-01

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Active

SCOTT, Francis Alexander→

director · ~67y · appointed 1993-02-01

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Active

SCOTT, Madeleine Mary→

director · ~69y · appointed 1993-02-01

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Active

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1993-02-01 · resigned 1993-02-01

Resigned

KITCHING, Dennis James→

director · ~87y · appointed 1993-02-01 · resigned 2005-01-31

Resigned

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