AVENUE NURSERIES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
04504882 · ltd · incorporated 2002-08-06
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 23.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Pre-primary education
Sector: Education
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). 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
2 live charges · oldest 23.4y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 23.4 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: 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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
63 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 | 2024-10-31 | 2023-10-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 1300 | 1100 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
1 signal 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
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
- 2025-06-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-06-09📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-04-04📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-07-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-07-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-07-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-01📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-06-01📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2022-06-01🔓Charge satisfied #2
- 2021-07-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-10-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-11-10📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2019-11-08📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2019-07-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-07-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-07-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2004-06-02🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2003-01-28🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2002-08-06🏢Company incorporatedAs AVENUE NURSERIES LIMITED
- 2002-08-06➕COLLINS, Jacqueline Lee appointedsecretary
- 2002-08-06➕COLLINS, Jacqueline Lee appointeddirector
- 2002-08-06➕HARRIS, Michelle Louise appointeddirector
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 24 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 candidateStrong 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 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
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 |
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Miss Jacqueline Lee Collins Individual · British · DOB 08/1967 · age 59 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 05/08/2016 |
Mrs Michelle Louise Harris Individual · British · DOB 12/1966 · age 60 | 25–50% | 25–50% | sig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · significant influence | 05/08/2016 |
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.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-08-06
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85100 — Pre-primary education
Registered office
Connolly Lodge Berrywood Close
St Crispins
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN5 4BW
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-20
Last: 2025-08-06
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
COLLINS, Jacqueline Lee→
Activesecretary · appointed 2002-08-06
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COLLINS, Jacqueline Lee→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2002-08-06
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HARRIS, Michelle Louise→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2002-08-06
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | Legal mortgage | 1 property | 02/06/2004 | 01/06/2022 | |
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 28/01/2003 | — |
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Recent filings (63 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-09
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-04-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-29
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-06-01
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-16