GLOBAL DRAINCARE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03344065 · ltd · incorporated 1997-04-02
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 25.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒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
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 39000
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). 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

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 25.3y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 25.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
91 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£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals 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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-11-18
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  4. 2024-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-08-09
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  7. 2022-08-09
    📄
    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  8. 2022-08-09
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  9. 2022-08-09
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  10. 2022-08-04
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  11. 2022-07-07
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  12. 2022-07-06
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  13. 2022-07-06
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  14. 2022-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2021-07-29
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2021-07-27
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
  17. 2021-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2020-01-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2019-03-25
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    move-registers-to-sail-company-with-new-address
    address · AD03
  20. 2003-02-07
    ➖
    GILL, David Michael resigned
    director
  21. 2001-03-16
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  22. 2000-08-21
    ➕
    MCGOWAN, Peter Anthony appointed
    director
  23. 1998-11-18
    ➕
    RHODES, Austin Edward appointed
    secretary
  24. 1998-11-18
    ➖
    WALKER, David resigned
    secretary
  25. 1998-11-18
    ➖
    WALKER, David resigned
    director
  26. 1997-11-10
    ➕
    RHODES, Austin Edward appointed
    director
  27. 1997-11-10
    ➖
    GINN, Sara resigned
    director
  28. 1997-04-02
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    Company incorporated
    As GLOBAL DRAINCARE LIMITED
  29. 1997-04-02
    ➕
    WALKER, David appointed
    secretary
  30. 1997-04-02
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  31. 1997-04-02
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 1997-04-02
    ➕
    GILL, David Michael appointed
    director
  33. 1997-04-02
    ➕
    GINN, Sara appointed
    director
  34. 1997-04-02
    ➕
    WALKER, David appointed
    director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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

Draincare Holdings Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Draincare Holdings Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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GLOBAL DRAINCARE LIMITED
This company · 03344065

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Draincare Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control05/05/2022
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Peter Anthony Mcgowanceased 05/05/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mr Austin Edward Rhodesceased 05/05/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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6 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
Incorporated1997-04-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC39000 — SIC 39000

Registered office

Unit 1 Chatsworth Industrial
Estate, Percy Street
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS12 1EL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-04
Last: 2025-10-21

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

RHODES, Austin Edward→
secretary · appointed 1998-11-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCGOWAN, Peter Anthony→
director · ~60y · appointed 2000-08-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RHODES, Austin Edward→
director · ~60y · appointed 1997-11-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WALKER, David→
secretary · appointed 1997-04-02 · resigned 1998-11-18
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-04-02 · resigned 1997-04-02
Resigned
GILL, David Michael→
director · ~58y · appointed 1997-04-02 · resigned 2003-02-07
Resigned
GINN, Sara→
director · ~56y · appointed 1997-04-02 · resigned 1997-11-10
Resigned
WALKER, David→
director · ~60y · appointed 1997-04-02 · resigned 1998-11-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Security Trustee Limited
A registered charge—27/07/2021—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property16/03/2001—
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Recent filings (91 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-18
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2024-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-21
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-08-09
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2022-08-09
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-08-09
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2022-08-09
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2022-08-04
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-07-07