ALLIED GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03963520 · ltd · incorporated 2000-04-03

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 26.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Oct 2024

Net worth

£265.7k

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Sector: Financial & insurance

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 26.1y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 26.1 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: medium (79/100)

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

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

81 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

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

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Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

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 £265,747

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£156k

Net Worth

£266k

Current Assets

£156k

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-10-31	2023-10-31
Total assets	£265.7k	—
Current assets	£156.0k	—
Cash	£155.8k	—
Net assets	£265.7k	—

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

2025-03-10
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2024-03-04
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accounts · AA
2023-05-04
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accounts · AA
2022-02-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-11
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accounts · AA
2020-10-15
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mortgage · MR04
2020-10-15
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Charge satisfied #2
2020-08-20
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officers · CH01
2020-08-20
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officers · CH03
2020-08-20
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address · AD01
2020-08-20
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officers · CH01
2020-08-19
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officers · CH01
2020-08-19
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address · AD01
2020-08-19
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-08-19
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officers · CH01
2020-08-19
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officers · CH01
2020-08-19
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officers · CH03
2020-08-19
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officers · CH01
2020-03-20
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2008-02-25
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2008-02-22
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2000-05-15
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Charge registered #1
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2000-04-03
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Company incorporated
As ALLIED GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED
2000-04-03
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BELL, Barbara appointed
secretary
2000-04-03
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BELL, Barbara appointed
director
2000-04-03
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BELL, Norman Stuart appointed
director
2000-04-03
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LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-04-03
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LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-04-03
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LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2000-04-03
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LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED resigned
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Owner dependency

91/100

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 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

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 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Norman Stuart Bell Individual · British · DOB 12/1959 · age 67	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	03/04/2017

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →

🔒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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2000-04-03

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

Unit 15 Marston Business Park

Lower Hazeldines

Marston Moretaine

Bedfordshire

MK43 0XT

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-07-31

Last made up to: 2024-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-17

Last: 2026-04-03

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

BELL, Barbara→

secretary · appointed 2000-04-03

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Active

BELL, Barbara→

director · ~65y · appointed 2000-04-03

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BELL, Norman Stuart→

director · ~67y · appointed 2000-04-03

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-04-03 · resigned 2000-04-03

Resigned

LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-04-03 · resigned 2000-04-03

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	Mortgage	1 property	25/02/2008	—
satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	22/02/2008	15/10/2020
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal mortgage	1 property	15/05/2000	—

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Recent filings (81 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-04-03

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-04-03

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-03-10

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-04-03

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-03-04

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-05-04

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-04-03

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-04-05

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-02-24

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-04-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2020-12-11

mortgage-satisfy-charge-full

mortgage · MR04

2020-10-15

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2020-08-20

change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date

officers · CH03

2020-08-20

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2020-08-20