ENVIRONMENTAL RECYCLING LIMITED

💤Zombieactive

03083884 · ltd · incorporated 1995-07-25

Investment thesis

Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.

Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.

Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Aug 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 38320

Sector: Water supply & waste

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 81). 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 28.6y

45/100

under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

· Oldest live charge is 28.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

7 officers (1 active, 7 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

73 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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	2025-08-31	2024-08-31

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

2026-03-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-05-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-05-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-05-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-05-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-05-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2020-05-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-05-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2018-03-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2017-07-06
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EDWARDS, Judith Mary resigned
secretary
2017-07-06
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officers · TM02
2017-03-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2016-03-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2015-07-30
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2015-03-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2014-08-04
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annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
annual-return · AR01
2005-08-08
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EDWARDS, Judith Mary appointed
secretary
2005-08-08
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SMYTH, David Anthony resigned
secretary
2000-07-01
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SMYTH, David Anthony appointed
secretary
1998-08-31
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CORBISHLEY, Robert resigned
secretary
1998-08-31
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CORBISHLEY, Robert resigned
director
1997-11-20
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1996-07-26
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INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
1995-07-26
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1995-07-25
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Company incorporated
As ENVIRONMENTAL RECYCLING LIMITED
1995-07-25
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WOODALL, Bruce appointed
director
1995-07-25
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CORBISHLEY, Robert appointed
secretary
1995-07-25
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1995-07-25
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CORBISHLEY, Robert appointed
director
1995-07-25
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INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100

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

+Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100

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 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Bruce Woodall Individual · British · DOB 08/1945 · age 81	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	25/07/2016

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 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

Typeltd

Incorporated1995-07-25

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC38320 — SIC 38320

Registered office

Springhill Industrial Estate

Springhill

Moreton In Marsh

Glos

GL56 9TP

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-05-31

Last made up to: 2025-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-08

Last: 2025-07-25

Officers (1 active · 6 resigned)

WOODALL, Bruce→

director · ~81y · appointed 1995-07-25

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Active

CORBISHLEY, Robert→

secretary · appointed 1995-07-25 · resigned 1998-08-31

Resigned

EDWARDS, Judith Mary→

secretary · appointed 2005-08-08 · resigned 2017-07-06

Resigned

SMYTH, David Anthony→

secretary · appointed 2000-07-01 · resigned 2005-08-08

Resigned

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-07-25 · resigned 1995-07-26

Resigned

CORBISHLEY, Robert→

director · ~86y · appointed 1995-07-25 · resigned 1998-08-31

Resigned

INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1995-07-25 · resigned 1996-07-26

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	Guarantee and debenture	1 property	20/11/1997	—

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