CARVER ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

05578139 · ltd · incorporated 2005-09-29

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 16.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£1.83M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

28921SIC 28921

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). 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

1 live charge · oldest 16.1y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 16.1 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, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

13 officers (5 active, 13 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

90 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £1,831,103

Net assets shrinking

Down £2,002,878 YoY

Cash YoY

+137%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.6m

↑ 137% YoY

Net Worth

£1.8m

↓ 52% YoY

Current Assets

£3.8m

↓ 32% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£1.89M	£3.90M
Current assets	£3.75M	£5.52M
Cash	£1.60M	£674.1k
Debtors	£2.15M	£4.84M
Net assets	£1.83M	£3.83M

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

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3 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

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand

2025-12-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2025-01-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-07
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2022-10-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-06
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officers · TM01
2022-03-23
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MOLLOY, Philip resigned
director
2022-01-06
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officers · TM01
2021-12-17
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FLINT, Alan resigned
director
2021-12-03
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-11-19
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LEES, Peter Paul resigned
director
2021-11-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-12
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address · AD01
2021-10-12
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-10-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-10-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2018-05-23
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capital · SH01
2018-04-24
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officers · AP01
2018-04-01
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SIMMS, Neil Dean appointed
director
2018-04-01
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LEES, Peter Paul appointed
director
2017-10-02
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SIMMS, Barry John appointed
director
2016-05-23
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MARTIN, David resigned
director
2012-03-28
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STUBBS, Hayley appointed
secretary
2012-03-28
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MARTIN, David resigned
secretary
2010-04-28
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2006-06-08
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MACHIN, Richard resigned
director
2005-09-29
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Company incorporated
As CARVER ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED
2005-09-29
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MOLLOY, Jeffrey appointed
director
2005-09-29
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SHEPPARD, Timothy John appointed
director
2005-09-29
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MARTIN, David appointed
secretary
2005-09-29
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TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2005-09-29
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TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2005-09-29
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FLINT, Alan appointed
director
2005-09-29
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MACHIN, Richard appointed
director
2005-09-29
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MARTIN, David appointed
director
2005-09-29
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MOLLOY, Philip appointed
director
2005-09-29
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COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2005-09-29
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COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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.)

Group structure

Carver Engineering Holdings Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Carver Engineering Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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CARVER ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED

This company · 05578139

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Carver Engineering Holdings Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Timothy John Sheppard Individual · British · DOB 08/1957 · age 69	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	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

Incorporated2005-09-29

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC25110 — Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures

Registered office

11 Brunel Close Brunel Industrial Estate

Blyth Road, Harworth

Doncaster

South Yorkshire

DN11 8QA

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-16

Last: 2025-10-02