ACCLAIM DRIVING SCHOOL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04544643 · ltd · incorporated 2002-09-25

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 Oct 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

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 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

73 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-10-31	2024-10-31
Average employees	1	100

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-02-11
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2023-05-03
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2022-06-08
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2021-07-19
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2020-07-23
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2019-09-25
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2002-09-25
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Company incorporated
As ACCLAIM DRIVING SCHOOL LIMITED
2002-09-25
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SMITH, Karen Ann appointed
secretary
2002-09-25
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SMITH, Karen Ann appointed
director
2002-09-25
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SMITH, Richard Lewis appointed
director
2002-09-25
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GRAEME, Dorothy May appointed
nominee-secretary
2002-09-25
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GRAEME, Dorothy May resigned
nominee-secretary
2002-09-25
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GRAEME, Lesley Joyce appointed
nominee-director
2002-09-25
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GRAEME, Lesley Joyce resigned
nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100

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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 63. 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Richard Lewis Smith Individual · British · DOB 06/1963 · age 63	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mrs Karen Ann Smith Individual · British · DOB 04/1963 · age 63	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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2002-09-25

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

60 Windsor Place

Mangotsfield

Bristol

BS16 9DE

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-07-31

Last made up to: 2025-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-09

Last: 2025-09-25

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

SMITH, Karen Ann→

secretary · appointed 2002-09-25

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Active

SMITH, Karen Ann→

director · ~63y · appointed 2002-09-25

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Active

SMITH, Richard Lewis→

director · ~63y · appointed 2002-09-25

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Active

GRAEME, Dorothy May→

nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-09-25 · resigned 2002-09-25

Resigned

GRAEME, Lesley Joyce→

nominee-director · ~73y · appointed 2002-09-25 · resigned 2002-09-25

Resigned

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