BOWARD TREE SURGERY (OXFORD) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03628704 · ltd · incorporated 1998-09-09
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
£315.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 02100
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 0.1y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Newest facility, 0.1 years old — likely still in initial term.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
13 officers (2 active, 13 linked, 6 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
95 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 £315,357

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£75k
Net Worth
£315k
Current Assets
£293k
Current Liabilities
—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-30
Total assets£399.7k
Current assets£293.0k
Cash£75.4k
Debtors£162.2k
Net assets£315.4k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 2 mortgage
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 2 mortgage
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (42 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-16
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  2. 2026-04-15
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  3. 2026-04-14
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Allica Bank Limited
  4. 2026-04-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Allica Bank Limited
  5. 2025-11-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2025-01-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-11-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-06-08
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2022-06-08
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  11. 2022-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-08-04
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  13. 2021-03-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-10-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-10-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-08-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2016-10-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  18. 2013-11-20
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    MCCREE, Sam appointed
    director
  19. 2006-08-19
    ➖
    WEBSTER, Sally Jane resigned
    secretary
  20. 2004-10-01
    ➖
    WEBSTER, Sally Jane resigned
    secretary
  21. 2004-04-05
    ➕
    WEBSTER, Sally Jane appointed
    secretary
  22. 2003-11-13
    ➕
    WEBSTER, Sally Jane appointed
    secretary
  23. 2003-11-12
    ➖
    JENKS, Paul Keiron resigned
    secretary
  24. 2003-11-12
    ➖
    BRODERICK, Ian Edward resigned
    director
  25. 2003-11-12
    ➖
    JENKS, Paul Keiron resigned
    director
  26. 2003-03-26
    ➖
    GRIFFITHS, Gillian Paula Marlene resigned
    secretary
  27. 2003-03-26
    ➕
    JENKS, Paul Keiron appointed
    secretary
  28. 2003-03-26
    ➕
    BRODERICK, Ian Edward appointed
    director
  29. 2003-03-26
    ➕
    JENKS, Paul Keiron appointed
    director
  30. 1999-06-17
    ➕
    BOYS, Michael appointed
    director
  31. 1999-06-17
    ➖
    WEBSTER, Sally Jane resigned
    director
  32. 1999-02-12
    ➕
    GRIFFITHS, Gillian Paula Marlene appointed
    secretary
  33. 1999-02-12
    ➖
    WEBSTER, Sally Jane resigned
    secretary
  34. 1999-02-12
    ➖
    BOYS, Michael resigned
    director
  35. 1999-02-12
    ➕
    WEBSTER, Sally Jane appointed
    director
  36. 1999-02-01
    ➕
    WEBSTER, Sally Jane appointed
    secretary
  37. 1999-02-01
    ➕
    BOYS, Michael appointed
    director
  38. 1999-01-21
    ➖
    BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  39. 1999-01-21
    ➖
    BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  40. 1998-09-09
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    Company incorporated
    As BOWARD TREE SURGERY (OXFORD) LIMITED
  41. 1998-09-09
    ➕
    BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  42. 1998-09-09
    ➕
    BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED appointed
    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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Michael Boys
Individual · British · DOB 07/1951 · age 75
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting06/04/2016
Mr Sam Mccree
Individual · British · DOB 10/1986 · age 40
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting07/04/2018

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

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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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
Incorporated1998-09-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC02100 — SIC 02100

Registered office

The Log Quarry Church Road
Long Hanborough
Witney
Oxfordshire
OX29 8JF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-11
Last: 2025-05-28

Officers (2 active · 11 resigned)

BOYS, Michael→
director · ~75y · appointed 1999-06-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCCREE, Sam→
director · ~40y · appointed 2013-11-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GRIFFITHS, Gillian Paula Marlene→
secretary · appointed 1999-02-12 · resigned 2003-03-26
Resigned
JENKS, Paul Keiron→
secretary · appointed 2003-03-26 · resigned 2003-11-12
Resigned
WEBSTER, Sally Jane→
secretary · appointed 2004-04-05 · resigned 2006-08-19
Resigned
WEBSTER, Sally Jane→
secretary · appointed 2003-11-13 · resigned 2004-10-01
Resigned
WEBSTER, Sally Jane→
secretary · appointed 1999-02-01 · resigned 1999-02-12
Resigned
BRIGHTON SECRETARY LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-09-09 · resigned 1999-01-21
Resigned
BOYS, Michael→
director · ~75y · appointed 1999-02-01 · resigned 1999-02-12
Resigned
BRODERICK, Ian Edward→
director · ~50y · appointed 2003-03-26 · resigned 2003-11-12
Resigned
JENKS, Paul Keiron→
director · ~57y · appointed 2003-03-26 · resigned 2003-11-12
Resigned
WEBSTER, Sally Jane→
director · ~66y · appointed 1999-02-12 · resigned 1999-06-17
Resigned
BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-09-09 · resigned 1999-01-21
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Allica Bank
Allica Bank Limited
A registered charge1 property14/04/2026—
outstanding
Allica Bank
Allica Bank Limited
A registered charge—14/04/2026—
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Recent filings (95 total)

mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2026-04-16
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2026-04-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-04
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-06-08
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-06-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-01
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2021-08-04