ABOUT ACCESS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04117369 · ltd · incorporated 2000-11-30
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 Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
73 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees200200

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2023-06-13
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    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  5. 2023-06-13
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  6. 2023-06-13
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  7. 2023-06-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-08-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-06-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-04-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-10-31
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  14. 2017-10-30
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  15. 2017-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  16. 2003-11-01
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    STREETS, Patricia Ann appointed
    director
  17. 2003-10-31
    ➖
    SADOFSKY, Melvyn Warren resigned
    director
  18. 2001-01-01
    ➕
    STREETS, Ian appointed
    secretary
  19. 2001-01-01
    ➕
    STREETS, Ian appointed
    director
  20. 2001-01-01
    ➖
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2001-01-01
    ➕
    SADOFSKY, Melvyn Warren appointed
    director
  22. 2001-01-01
    ➖
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2000-11-30
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    Company incorporated
    As ABOUT ACCESS LIMITED
  24. 2000-11-30
    ➕
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2000-11-30
    ➕
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

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 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 70 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 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Ian Streets
Individual · British · DOB 09/1962 · age 64
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Patricia Ann Streetsceased 06/04/2016· significant influence

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
Incorporated2000-11-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

63 Wilson Street
Anlaby
Hull
HU10 7AJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-05
Last: 2025-11-21

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

STREETS, Ian→
secretary · appointed 2001-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STREETS, Ian→
director · ~64y · appointed 2001-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STREETS, Patricia Ann→
director · ~70y · appointed 2003-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-11-30 · resigned 2001-01-01
Resigned
SADOFSKY, Melvyn Warren→
director · ~77y · appointed 2001-01-01 · resigned 2003-10-31
Resigned
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-11-30 · resigned 2001-01-01
Resigned

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Recent filings (73 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-20
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-06-13
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2023-06-13
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-06-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-08-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-06-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-26