HONEY GARDENS LTD

💤Zombieactive
04556025 · ltd · incorporated 2002-10-08
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Landscape service activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 1 with DOB)
74
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
64 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees00

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-28
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  2. 2024-07-23
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  3. 2023-01-06
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  4. 2022-07-28
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  5. 2021-09-08
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    change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH04
  6. 2021-09-08
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2021-07-23
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-10-27
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-01-30
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    change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH04
  10. 2019-01-14
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-10-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  12. 2018-07-06
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  13. 2017-01-03
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  14. 2016-06-13
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-11-03
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2010-12-17
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    LAURA PLACE NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  17. 2010-12-17
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    QUEEN SQUARE SECRETARIES LTD resigned
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2002-12-05
    ➖
    DOLAN, Paul Vincent resigned
    secretary
  19. 2002-12-05
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    QUEEN SQUARE SECRETARIES LTD appointed
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2002-10-08
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    Company incorporated
    As HONEY GARDENS LTD
  21. 2002-10-08
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    HONEY, James Edward appointed
    director
  22. 2002-10-08
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    DOLAN, Paul Vincent appointed
    secretary
  23. 2002-10-08
    ➕
    QUEEN SQUARE HOLDINGS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  24. 2002-10-08
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    QUEEN SQUARE HOLDINGS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "HONEY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr James Edward Honey
Individual · British · DOB 08/1944 · age 82
——sig. influencesignificant influence08/10/2016

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-10-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC81300 — Landscape service activities

Registered office

Unit 23 Leafield Industrial Estate
Neston
Corsham
Wiltshire
SN13 9RS
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-22
Last: 2025-10-08

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

LAURA PLACE NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2010-12-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HONEY, James Edward→
director · ~82y · appointed 2002-10-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DOLAN, Paul Vincent→
secretary · appointed 2002-10-08 · resigned 2002-12-05
Resigned
QUEEN SQUARE SECRETARIES LTD→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2002-12-05 · resigned 2010-12-17
Resigned
QUEEN SQUARE HOLDINGS LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2002-10-08 · resigned 2002-10-08
Resigned

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Recent filings (64 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-14
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accounts · AA
2025-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-06
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-18
change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2021-09-08
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-07-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-10-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-12
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-14