BOULDER DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03479247 · ltd · incorporated 1997-12-11
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 7.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to May 2025
Net worth
£1.22M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 7.4y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
86 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,216,449
Cash YoY
+28%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1.2m
↑ 28% YoY
Net Worth
£1.2m
↑ 5.6% YoY
Current Assets
£3.8m
↑ 6.2% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£768k£1.5m£2.3m£3.1m£3.8mMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£1.35M£3.46M
Current assets£3.84M£3.61M
Cash£1.19M£928.4k
Debtors£1.33M£1.21M
Net assets£1.22M£1.15M

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-08-05
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  3. 2025-08-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-08-04
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  5. 2025-08-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2025-07-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2025-02-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-02-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-03-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-06-01
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  11. 2022-05-30
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
  12. 2022-03-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-10-23
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  15. 2020-10-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2020-10-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2020-09-15
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  18. 2020-09-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  19. 2020-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2019-01-23
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
  21. 2018-03-01
    ➕
    BOWN, William appointed
    director
  22. 1997-12-11
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    Company incorporated
    As BOULDER DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
  23. 1997-12-11
    ➕
    BOWN, Craig William appointed
    secretary
  24. 1997-12-11
    ➕
    BOWN, Alison Rachel appointed
    director
  25. 1997-12-11
    ➕
    BOWN, Craig William appointed
    director
  26. 1997-12-11
    ➕
    SEVERNSIDE SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 1997-12-11
    ➖
    SEVERNSIDE SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 1997-12-11
    ➕
    SEVERNSIDE NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  29. 1997-12-11
    ➖
    SEVERNSIDE NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 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

80/100
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.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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

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

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Boulder Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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BOULDER DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
This company · 03479247

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
Boulder Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting05/04/2019
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr William Bownceased 05/04/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mrs Alison Rachel Bownceased 05/04/2019· 25-50% shares
  • Mr Craig William Bownceased 05/04/2019· 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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1997-12-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

Boulder Business Park
Pioneer Way
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN6 3DH
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-26
Last: 2026-04-12

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

BOWN, Craig William→
secretary · appointed 1997-12-11
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Active
BOWN, Alison Rachel→
director · ~64y · appointed 1997-12-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BOWN, Craig William→
director · ~69y · appointed 1997-12-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BOWN, William→
director · ~38y · appointed 2018-03-01
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Active
SEVERNSIDE SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-12-11 · resigned 1997-12-11
Resigned
SEVERNSIDE NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-12-11 · resigned 1997-12-11
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc UK Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property30/05/2022—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc UK Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property23/01/2019—
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Recent filings (86 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2026-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-15
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-08-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-08-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-08-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-08-04
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-07-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-02-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-02-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-03-01
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-12