SURVEYING CONCEPTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05648087 · ltd · incorporated 2005-12-07
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
76/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Quantity surveying activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 76/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
65 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
76/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
65
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees400400

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-01-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-01-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-01-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2019-01-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2019-01-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  11. 2019-01-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2018-12-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-12-19
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2017-09-11
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  16. 2017-09-11
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  17. 2008-09-02
    ➖
    CHALLIS, Frank Frederick George resigned
    secretary
  18. 2008-01-01
    ➕
    JARVIS, Ian Christopher appointed
    director
  19. 2006-02-10
    ➕
    CHALLIS, Craig Ashley appointed
    director
  20. 2006-02-10
    ➕
    CHALLIS, Frank Frederick George appointed
    secretary
  21. 2006-02-10
    ➖
    ACS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2006-02-10
    ➖
    ACS NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  23. 2005-12-07
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    Company incorporated
    As SURVEYING CONCEPTS LIMITED
  24. 2005-12-07
    ➕
    ACS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2005-12-07
    ➕
    ACS NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

68/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ian Christopher Jarvis
Individual · British · DOB 11/1970 · age 56
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Craig Ashley Challis
Individual · British · DOB 07/1974 · age 52
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-12-07
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC74902 — Quantity surveying activities

Registered office

10 Queen Street Place
London
EC4R 1AG
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-21
Last: 2025-12-07

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

CHALLIS, Craig Ashley→
director · ~52y · appointed 2006-02-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JARVIS, Ian Christopher→
director · ~56y · appointed 2008-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CHALLIS, Frank Frederick George→
secretary · appointed 2006-02-10 · resigned 2008-09-02
Resigned
ACS SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2005-12-07 · resigned 2006-02-10
Resigned
ACS NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2005-12-07 · resigned 2006-02-10
Resigned

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Recent filings (65 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-11-29
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-01-16