BAR-N-BUS TRUST

🌳Matureactive

02961054 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 1994-08-22

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

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year to Apr 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of religious organisations

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

42 officers (9 active, 42 linked, 37 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

184 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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.

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-05	2024-04-05
Average employees	7	700

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

filing

• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (98 events)Click to expand

2026-05-27
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officers · TM01
2026-05-21
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BUTT, Samantha resigned
director
2025-10-10
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accounts · AA
2025-08-07
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officers · CH03
2025-07-25
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officers · AP01
2024-10-18
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OLADIMEJI, Adebola appointed
director
2024-09-30
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accounts · AA
2024-08-06
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officers · TM01
2024-07-12
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WHEELER, Mandy resigned
director
2024-06-29
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-04-29
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officers · CH01
2024-04-29
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officers · CH01
2024-04-29
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officers · AP01
2024-04-29
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officers · TM02
2024-04-29
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officers · AP03
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officers · AP01
2024-04-29
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officers · AP01
2024-04-26
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KING, Susanna Aislinn appointed
secretary
2024-04-26
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DART, Robert James appointed
director
2024-04-26
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WATTS, Aaron appointed
director
2024-04-26
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CHURCHILL, Andrew Philip resigned
secretary
2024-04-26
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BUTT, Samantha appointed
director
2024-04-24
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address · AD01
2023-12-22
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address · AD01
2023-10-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-13
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officers · AP01
2023-10-13
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officers · AP01
2023-10-09
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KING, Susanna Aislinn appointed
director
2023-10-09
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WEBB, Michael John appointed
director
2023-01-30
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-01-23
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RICHARDS, Jane, Revd Canon resigned
director
2022-12-12
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officers · TM01
2022-11-28
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HUGHES, Julie resigned
director
2022-09-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-20
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JOHNSON, Wayne appointed
director
2021-09-20
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RICHARDS, Jane, Revd Canon appointed
director
2021-09-20
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WHEELER, Mandy appointed
director
2020-09-21
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TIDDY, Mark Richard resigned
director
2020-01-06
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BUCKLAND, Neil Vernon resigned
secretary
2020-01-06
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CHURCHILL, Andrew Philip appointed
secretary
2020-01-06
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BUCKLAND, Neil Vernon resigned
director
2018-09-21
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HUGHES, Julie appointed
director
2018-03-12
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TIDDY, Mark Richard appointed
director
2016-07-31
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CURRELL, Stephen Alexander resigned
director
2015-11-10
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CHURCHILL, Andrew Philip appointed
director
2015-10-06
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BANKS, Hazel Ruth resigned
director
2014-11-11
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WATKINSON, Peter Owen resigned
director
2013-05-04
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CHRISTIAN, David Daniel Douglas resigned
director
2013-05-04
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WATKINSON, Peter Owen appointed
director
2013-04-13
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CURRELL, Stephen Alexander appointed
director

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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

-8 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
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

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated1994-08-22

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC94910 — Activities of religious organisations

Registered office

The Hive

6 Honeypot Lne

Basildon

Essex

SS14 2JZ

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-05

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-27

Last: 2025-08-13