BAWTRY FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03443510 · ltd · incorporated 1997-10-02
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£8.85M
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01500
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 93-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 93). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -49% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. 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, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
10 officers (5 active, 10 linked, 7 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
14 connected companies via shared directors
87
Filing history
78 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £8,847,821
Net assets shrinking
Down £105,057 YoY
Cash draining
Cash down 49% YoY
Cash YoY
-49%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£552k
↓ 49% YoY
Net Worth
£8.8m
↓ 1.2% YoY
Current Assets
£4.5m
↓ 6.4% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£1.8m£3.6m£5.4m£7.2m£9.0mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£8.88M£8.99M
Current assets£4.52M£4.83M
Cash£552.1k£1.08M
Debtors£3.66M£3.33M
Net assets£8.85M£8.95M

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
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  3. 2023-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
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  4. 2022-12-23
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-12-23
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  6. 2021-03-24
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-02-16
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    officers · AP01
  8. 2021-02-10
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    MCDONALD, Michael Francis appointed
    director
  9. 2019-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-12-05
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-07-31
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    MCDONALD, Michael Francis resigned
    director
  12. 2018-07-31
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    officers · TM01
  13. 2017-11-30
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  14. 2016-12-09
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  15. 2016-03-08
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  16. 2016-03-08
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  17. 2016-03-02
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    MCDONALD, Amie appointed
    director
  18. 2016-03-02
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    MCDONALD, Michael Francis appointed
    director
  19. 2016-02-23
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    officers · AP03
  20. 2016-02-16
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    MCDONALD, Donna appointed
    secretary
  21. 2016-02-16
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    LEESING, Brian resigned
    secretary
  22. 2000-03-24
    ➕
    MCDONALD, Kevin appointed
    director
  23. 2000-02-09
    ➕
    MCDONALD, Donna Brigitte appointed
    director
  24. 2000-02-09
    ➖
    MCDONALD, Kevin resigned
    director
  25. 1997-10-02
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    Company incorporated
    As BAWTRY FARMS LIMITED
  26. 1997-10-02
    ➕
    GRAEME, Dorothy May appointed
    nominee-secretary
  27. 1997-10-02
    ➖
    GRAEME, Dorothy May resigned
    nominee-secretary
  28. 1997-10-02
    ➕
    LEESING, Brian appointed
    secretary
  29. 1997-10-02
    ➕
    GRAEME, Lesley Joyce appointed
    nominee-director
  30. 1997-10-02
    ➖
    GRAEME, Lesley Joyce resigned
    nominee-director
  31. 1997-10-02
    ➕
    MCDONALD, Kevin appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 93 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 93 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Kevin Mcdonald
Individual · British · DOB 10/1933 · age 93
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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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
Typeltd
Incorporated1997-10-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Serlby Hall
Serlby
Bawtry
Nottinghamshire
DN10 6BA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-16
Last: 2025-10-02

Officers (5 active · 5 resigned)

MCDONALD, Donna→
secretary · appointed 2016-02-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCDONALD, Amie→
director · ~33y · appointed 2016-03-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCDONALD, Donna Brigitte→
director · ~64y · appointed 2000-02-09
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Active
MCDONALD, Kevin→
director · ~93y · appointed 2000-03-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCDONALD, Michael Francis→
director · ~38y · appointed 2021-02-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GRAEME, Dorothy May→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-10-02 · resigned 1997-10-02
Resigned
LEESING, Brian→
secretary · appointed 1997-10-02 · resigned 2016-02-16
Resigned
GRAEME, Lesley Joyce→
nominee-director · ~73y · appointed 1997-10-02 · resigned 1997-10-02
Resigned
MCDONALD, Kevin→
director · ~93y · appointed 1997-10-02 · resigned 2000-02-09
Resigned
MCDONALD, Michael Francis→
director · ~38y · appointed 2016-03-02 · resigned 2018-07-31
Resigned

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Recent filings (78 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2025-12-24
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-03-24
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officers · AP01
2021-02-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-03