FRESH START WASTE SERVICES LTD

🌳Matureactive

05762485 · ltd · incorporated 2006-03-30

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 17.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 38110

Sector: Water supply & waste

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). 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: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 17.5y

60/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 17.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

11 officers (9 active, 11 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

70 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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

Profitable

Profit before tax £1,088,579

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Profit before tax	£1.09M	£961.4k
Average employees	135	12400

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand

2025-12-07
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accounts · AA
2025-02-10
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officers · AP01
2025-02-10
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officers · AP01
2025-01-01
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TULIP, Pauline appointed
director
2024-09-26
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accounts · AA
2024-05-22
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MARTINS, Sean James appointed
director
2023-12-30
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-12-30
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2023-08-02
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accounts · AA
2022-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
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accounts · AA
2020-12-14
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accounts · AA
2020-09-04
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2020-09-04
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-09-04
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-12-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-01-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2017-12-28
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accounts · AA
2017-07-31
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ROGERS, Joseph resigned
director
2016-12-16
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COOKE, Peter appointed
director
2016-01-04
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HARVEY, Colin appointed
director
2015-11-19
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LAVELLE, Craig resigned
director
2015-10-01
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HAIGH-ROSSER, Barbara Joanne appointed
director
2013-04-04
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
2008-12-30
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2008-02-08
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ROGERS, Joseph appointed
director
2007-09-24
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LAVELLE, Craig appointed
director
2006-05-08
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ROGERS, Paul Stephan appointed
director
2006-03-30
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Company incorporated
As FRESH START WASTE SERVICES LTD
2006-03-30
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MCGRATH, Nicola Jane appointed
secretary
2006-03-30
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MCGRATH, Nicola Jane appointed
director
2006-03-30
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ROGERS, Paul appointed
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

-8 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — 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 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Fresh Start Holdings (Nw) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Fresh Start Holdings (Nw) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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FRESH START WASTE SERVICES LTD

This company · 05762485

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Fresh Start Holdings (Nw) Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Nicola Mcgrathceased 01/10/2019· board control
Paul Rogersceased 01/10/2019· board control

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2006-03-30

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC38110 — SIC 38110

Registered office

Scott House 114 Higher Green Lane, Astley

Tyldesley

Manchester

M29 7JB

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-17

Last: 2025-09-03