39 STEPS ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05665587 · ltd · incorporated 2006-01-04
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 Jan 2025
Net worth
£3.93M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Television programme production activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
54 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £3,929,703
Cash YoY
+48%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1.8m
↑ 48% YoY
Net Worth
£3.9m
↑ 55% YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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£0£786k£1.6m£2.4m£3.1m£3.9mJan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Cash£1.83M£1.23M
Net assets£3.93M£2.54M

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-24
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  2. 2025-01-20
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  3. 2024-09-10
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-05-01
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    H S (NOMINEES) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  5. 2023-10-11
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  6. 2022-10-27
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  7. 2022-10-14
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  8. 2022-05-27
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  9. 2021-08-31
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  10. 2020-10-21
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  11. 2020-01-09
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    officers · CH01
  12. 2020-01-09
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2019-09-11
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  14. 2018-08-10
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  15. 2017-08-16
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  16. 2016-10-31
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  17. 2006-01-04
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    Company incorporated
    As 39 STEPS ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
  18. 2006-01-04
    ➕
    CURTIS, Simon Adam appointed
    director
  19. 2006-01-04
    ➕
    MCGOVERN, Elizabeth appointed
    director
  20. 2006-01-04
    ➕
    H S (NOMINEES) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  21. 2006-01-04
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    SDG SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2006-01-04
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    SDG SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2006-01-04
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    SDG REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 2006-01-04
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    SDG REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

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 66. 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 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
Simon Adam Curtis
Individual · British · DOB 03/1960 · age 66
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Elizabeth Mcgovern
Individual · American,British · DOB 07/1961 · age 65
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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-01-04
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC59113 — Television programme production activities

Registered office

35 Ballards Lane
London
N3 1XW
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-18
Last: 2026-01-04

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

CURTIS, Simon Adam→
director · ~66y · appointed 2006-01-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCGOVERN, Elizabeth→
director · ~65y · appointed 2006-01-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
H S (NOMINEES) LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2006-01-04 · resigned 2024-05-01
Resigned
SDG SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-01-04 · resigned 2006-01-04
Resigned
SDG REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-01-04 · resigned 2006-01-04
Resigned

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Recent filings (54 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-30
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-01-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-10-27
change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2022-10-14
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-08-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-21