ADP CALL CENTRES LTD

🌳Matureactive
03908228 · ltd · incorporated 2000-01-18
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
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book net assets
Opportunity
74/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of call centres
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: conservative operator with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 74/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (70/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
14 officers (2 active, 14 linked, 7 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
95 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
74/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
55
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £1,295,793

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£3.3m£6.6m£9.8m£13m£16mApr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Profit before tax£1.30M—
Total assets—£10.12M
Current assets—£16.38M
Cash—£3.28M
Debtors—£13.09M
Net assets—£9.65M
Average employees129—

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
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (42 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-21
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2023-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-01-19
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2022-10-11
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    SINGH, Sarabjeet resigned
    director
  8. 2022-10-11
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2022-10-11
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  10. 2021-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-03-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-09-17
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2018-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2015-03-02
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    SINGH, Reuben appointed
    director
  18. 2009-09-20
    ➕
    CRABTREE, Kenneth Roy appointed
    secretary
  19. 2009-09-20
    ➖
    CRABTREE, Kenneth Roy resigned
    secretary
  20. 2009-09-20
    ➕
    SINGH, Reuben appointed
    secretary
  21. 2009-09-20
    ➖
    SINGH, Reuben resigned
    secretary
  22. 2009-09-20
    ➕
    SINGH, Reuben appointed
    director
  23. 2009-09-20
    ➖
    SINGH, Reuben resigned
    director
  24. 2009-09-20
    ➕
    SINGH, Sarabjeet appointed
    director
  25. 2009-09-20
    ➖
    SINGH, Sarabjeet resigned
    director
  26. 2007-12-03
    ➖
    SINGH, Jasbir Kaur resigned
    director
  27. 2007-12-03
    ➕
    SINGH, Sarabjeet appointed
    director
  28. 2006-12-01
    ➖
    SINGH, Sarabjeet resigned
    director
  29. 2005-10-20
    ➕
    SINGH, Jasbir Kaur appointed
    director
  30. 2004-03-05
    ➖
    SINGH, Reuben, Dr resigned
    director
  31. 2004-02-11
    ➕
    SINGH, Sarabjeet appointed
    director
  32. 2001-09-15
    ➕
    CRABTREE, Kenneth Roy appointed
    secretary
  33. 2001-09-15
    ➖
    SINGH, Sarabjeet resigned
    secretary
  34. 2000-06-02
    ➕
    SINGH, Sarabjeet appointed
    secretary
  35. 2000-06-02
    ➖
    HILLGATE SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  36. 2000-06-02
    ➕
    SINGH, Reuben, Dr appointed
    director
  37. 2000-06-02
    ➖
    HILLGATE NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  38. 2000-06-02
    ➖
    HILLGATE SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  39. 2000-01-18
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ADP CALL CENTRES LTD
  40. 2000-01-18
    ➕
    HILLGATE SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  41. 2000-01-18
    ➕
    HILLGATE NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  42. 2000-01-18
    ➕
    HILLGATE SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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 Reuben Singh
Individual · British · DOB 09/1976 · age 50
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Sarabjeet Singhceased 11/10/2022· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · firm interest

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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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🔒Advanced scoring suite

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
Incorporated2000-01-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC82200 — Activities of call centres

Registered office

Isher House Suite 2, 2nd Floor
Peel Cross Road
Manchester
M5 4DT
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-09
Last: 2026-01-26

Officers (2 active · 12 resigned)

CRABTREE, Kenneth Roy→
secretary · appointed 2009-09-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SINGH, Reuben→
director · ~50y · appointed 2015-03-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CRABTREE, Kenneth Roy→
secretary · appointed 2001-09-15 · resigned 2009-09-20
Resigned
SINGH, Reuben→
secretary · appointed 2009-09-20 · resigned 2009-09-20
Resigned
SINGH, Sarabjeet→
secretary · appointed 2000-06-02 · resigned 2001-09-15
Resigned
HILLGATE SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-01-18 · resigned 2000-06-02
Resigned
SINGH, Jasbir Kaur→
director · ~75y · appointed 2005-10-20 · resigned 2007-12-03
Resigned
SINGH, Reuben→
director · ~50y · appointed 2009-09-20 · resigned 2009-09-20
Resigned
SINGH, Reuben, Dr→
director · ~50y · appointed 2000-06-02 · resigned 2004-03-05
Resigned
SINGH, Sarabjeet→
director · ~84y · appointed 2009-09-20 · resigned 2022-10-11
Resigned
SINGH, Sarabjeet→
director · ~84y · appointed 2007-12-03 · resigned 2009-09-20
Resigned
SINGH, Sarabjeet→
director · ~84y · appointed 2004-02-11 · resigned 2006-12-01
Resigned
HILLGATE NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-01-18 · resigned 2000-06-02
Resigned
HILLGATE SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-01-18 · resigned 2000-06-02
Resigned

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Recent filings (95 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-09
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-30
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-01-19
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-10-11
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-10-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-22