AD HOC ASSOCIATES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04825714 · ltd · incorporated 2003-07-08
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
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£9.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hairdressing and other beauty treatment
Sector: Other service activities
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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
7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
57 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £9,691
Cash YoY
+42%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£37k
↑ 42% YoY
Net Worth
£10k
↑ 4.5% YoY
Current Assets
£39k
↑ 39% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£8k£16k£23k£31k£39kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£9.7k£9.3k
Current assets£38.8k£28.0k
Cash£36.8k£26.0k
Net assets£9.7k£9.3k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-11-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2021-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-03-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2015-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2015-07-13
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2014-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-07-08
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2003-08-01
    ➕
    FOOTE, Michael William appointed
    secretary
  17. 2003-08-01
    ➕
    FOOTE, Anita appointed
    director
  18. 2003-08-01
    ➕
    FOOTE, Michael William appointed
    director
  19. 2003-08-01
    ➕
    STRUGGLES, Duncan appointed
    director
  20. 2003-08-01
    ➕
    STRUGGLES, Julie Ann appointed
    director
  21. 2003-07-10
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    BRIGHTON SECRETARY LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2003-07-10
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    BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2003-07-08
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    Company incorporated
    As AD HOC ASSOCIATES LIMITED
  24. 2003-07-08
    ➕
    BRIGHTON SECRETARY LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2003-07-08
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    BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2003-07-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC96020 — Hairdressing and other beauty treatment

Registered office

25 Lemon Street
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 2LS
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-22
Last: 2025-07-08

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

FOOTE, Michael William→
secretary · appointed 2003-08-01
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Active
FOOTE, Anita→
director · ~70y · appointed 2003-08-01
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Active
FOOTE, Michael William→
director · ~68y · appointed 2003-08-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STRUGGLES, Duncan→
director · ~66y · appointed 2003-08-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STRUGGLES, Julie Ann→
director · ~65y · appointed 2003-08-01
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Active
BRIGHTON SECRETARY LTD→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-07-08 · resigned 2003-07-10
Resigned
BRIGHTON DIRECTOR LTD→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-07-08 · resigned 2003-07-10
Resigned

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Recent filings (57 total)

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2025-09-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-07-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-12-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-07-18