ACORN PARKS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04341391 · ltd · incorporated 2001-12-17
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 17.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£6.89M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 55300
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

6 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 17.1y

70/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 17.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
6 charges (6/6 with lender, 6/6 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
84 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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
77
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 £6,892,762
Cash YoY
+13963%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£51k
↑ 13963% YoY
Net Worth
£6.9m
↑ 2.5% YoY
Current Assets
£890k
↓ 16% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£1.4m£2.8m£4.1m£5.5m£6.9mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£10.66M£11.59M
Current assets£889.7k£1.06M
Cash£51.2k£364
Debtors£195.1k£183.4k
Net assets£6.89M£6.72M

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
3
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-19
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  2. 2026-06-19
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  3. 2026-06-19
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  4. 2025-11-27
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  5. 2025-01-31
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  6. 2025-01-31
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  7. 2025-01-31
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  8. 2024-12-23
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  9. 2023-12-20
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  10. 2023-12-20
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  11. 2022-12-23
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  12. 2021-12-23
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  13. 2021-12-22
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  14. 2021-03-31
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  15. 2021-01-20
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  16. 2021-01-20
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  17. 2021-01-20
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  18. 2020-03-29
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    NATION, Noel resigned
    director
  19. 2019-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2016-05-11
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    Charge satisfied #3
  21. 2016-05-11
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    Charge satisfied #2
  22. 2016-05-11
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    Charge satisfied #1
  23. 2016-03-08
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    Charge registered #6
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  24. 2016-03-08
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    Charge registered #5
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  25. 2016-03-08
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  26. 2009-11-06
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  27. 2009-11-06
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  28. 2009-06-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  29. 2001-12-17
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ACORN PARKS LIMITED
  30. 2001-12-17
    ➕
    LOOK, Catherine Rebecca appointed
    secretary
  31. 2001-12-17
    ➕
    LOOK, Catherine Rebecca appointed
    director
  32. 2001-12-17
    ➕
    NATION, Rachel Guilia appointed
    director
  33. 2001-12-17
    ➕
    DWYER, Daniel John appointed
    nominee-secretary
  34. 2001-12-17
    ➖
    DWYER, Daniel John resigned
    nominee-secretary
  35. 2001-12-17
    ➕
    DWYER, Daniel James appointed
    nominee-director
  36. 2001-12-17
    ➖
    DWYER, Daniel James resigned
    nominee-director
  37. 2001-12-17
    ➕
    NATION, Noel appointed
    director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +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 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • 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

1 med ·
Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern
medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Oak Tree Parks Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Oak Tree Parks Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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ACORN PARKS LIMITED
This company · 04341391

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Oak Tree Parks Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Rachel Guilia Nation
Individual · British · DOB 10/1970 · age 56
—50–75%50-75% voting06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Rachel Helen Andrewsceased 04/06/2026· 25-50% voting · trust interest
  • Mrs Catherine Rebecca Lookceased 04/06/2026· 25-50% voting · trust interest

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
Incorporated2001-12-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC55300 — SIC 55300

Registered office

The Office Oaktree Park
Locking
Weston-Super-Mare
Somerset
BS24 8RG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last: 2025-12-17

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

LOOK, Catherine Rebecca→
secretary · appointed 2001-12-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LOOK, Catherine Rebecca→
director · ~60y · appointed 2001-12-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NATION, Rachel Guilia→
director · ~56y · appointed 2001-12-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DWYER, Daniel John→
nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-12-17 · resigned 2001-12-17
Resigned
DWYER, Daniel James→
nominee-director · ~51y · appointed 2001-12-17 · resigned 2001-12-17
Resigned
NATION, Noel→
director · ~86y · appointed 2001-12-17 · resigned 2020-03-29
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

6
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:6 of 6 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property08/03/2016—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property08/03/2016—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
A registered charge—08/03/2016—
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property06/11/200911/05/2016
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property06/11/200911/05/2016
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property26/06/200911/05/2016
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Recent filings (84 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-06-19
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-06-19
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-06-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-31
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-31
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-01-31
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-23