AIREDALE TREE SURGEONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04500387 · ltd · incorporated 2002-08-01
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 7.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Aug 2025
Net worth
£85.6k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 02400
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 16100Sawmilling and planing of wood
  • 16290SIC 16290
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company 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. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 7.5y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 3 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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
65 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £85,560

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£16k
Net Worth
£86k
Current Assets
£97k
Current Liabilities
—
£0£19k£39k£58k£77k£97kAug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Total assets£490.7k—
Current assets£96.8k—
Cash£16.0k—
Debtors£6.9k—
Net assets£85.6k—
Average employees—600

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

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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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-02-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-02-28
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-03-23
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-03-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2020-04-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-03-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-02-05
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  11. 2019-02-04
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)
  12. 2018-08-06
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  13. 2018-08-06
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  14. 2018-08-06
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2018-03-07
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-08-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2017-02-13
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    accounts · AA
  18. 2002-08-01
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    Company incorporated
    As AIREDALE TREE SURGEONS LIMITED
  19. 2002-08-01
    ➕
    MITCHELL, David Lee appointed
    secretary
  20. 2002-08-01
    ➕
    MITCHELL, David Lee appointed
    director
  21. 2002-08-01
    ➕
    SLINGSBY, Richard David appointed
    director
  22. 2002-08-01
    ➕
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2002-08-01
    ➖
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2002-08-01
    ➕
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 2002-08-01
    ➖
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-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 24 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 candidate

Strong 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 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Richard David Slingsby
Individual · British · DOB 10/1965 · age 61
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/08/2016
Mr David Lee Mitchell
Individual · British · DOB 05/1962 · age 64
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/08/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-08-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC02400 — SIC 02400

Registered office

Four Columns
Broughton
Skipton
BD23 3AE
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-15
Last: 2025-08-01

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

MITCHELL, David Lee→
secretary · appointed 2002-08-01
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Active
MITCHELL, David Lee→
director · ~64y · appointed 2002-08-01
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Active
SLINGSBY, Richard David→
director · ~61y · appointed 2002-08-01
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Active
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-08-01 · resigned 2002-08-01
Resigned
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-08-01 · resigned 2002-08-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)
A registered charge—04/02/2019—
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Recent filings (65 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-23
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-03-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-08-05