ALWAYS CLEANSING LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
04235326 · ltd · incorporated 2001-06-15
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 24.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Residents property management
Sector: Activities of households
Investor take
PursueAsset-holding vehicle with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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
1 live charge · oldest 24.8y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 24.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (77/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
66 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 12 | 1300 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
5
filings
- • 2 officers
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
5
filings
- • 2 officers
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
- 2026-06-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-06-02📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2026-06-02📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2026-04-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-02-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-01-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-02-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-05-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-02-21📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2018-04-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-02-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-06-16📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2001-08-28🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2001-06-15🏢Company incorporatedAs ALWAYS CLEANSING LIMITED
- 2001-06-15➕MCCREADY, Eleanor Sally appointedsecretary
- 2001-06-15➕LOHMEYER, Richard Jonathan appointeddirector
- 2001-06-15➕MCCREADY, Eleanor Sally appointeddirector
- 2001-06-15➕SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2001-06-15➖SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
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.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. 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 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Richard Jonathan Lohmeyer Individual · British · DOB 08/1962 · age 64 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Eleanor Sally Mccready Individual · British · DOB 01/1962 · age 64 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2001-06-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC98000 — Residents property management
Registered office
Moorgate House
King Street
Newton Abbot
Devon
TQ12 2LG
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-15
Last: 2026-06-01
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
MCCREADY, Eleanor Sally→
Activesecretary · appointed 2001-06-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
LOHMEYER, Richard Jonathan→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 2001-06-15
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MCCREADY, Eleanor Sally→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 2001-06-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-06-15 · resigned 2001-06-15
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 28/08/2001 | — |
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Recent filings (66 total)
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-06-02
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-06-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-06
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2022-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-19