BLOSSOM TREE CHILDCARE LTD

🌳Matureactive
05888528 · ltd · incorporated 2006-07-27
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 14.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Pre-primary education
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 14.0y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 14.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
59 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Aug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Average employees15001200

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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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-04-23
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  4. 2025-04-17
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    HARGRAVES, Adam Mark appointed
    director
  5. 2024-05-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-05-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-02-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-09-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-08-05
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2020-08-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2020-05-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-07-04
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2019-05-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-09-11
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2018-09-11
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2018-06-08
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  17. 2018-05-11
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    MCDONALD, Anthony Clifford resigned
    director
  18. 2018-04-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2015-02-16
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    HARGRAVES, Emma resigned
    secretary
  20. 2015-02-16
    ➕
    MCDONALD, Anthony Clifford appointed
    director
  21. 2012-06-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  22. 2006-07-27
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    Company incorporated
    As BLOSSOM TREE CHILDCARE LTD
  23. 2006-07-27
    ➕
    MCDONALD, Paulene Joyce appointed
    director
  24. 2006-07-27
    ➕
    HARGRAVES, Emma appointed
    secretary

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 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Paulene Joyce Mcdonald
Individual · British · DOB 05/1961 · age 65
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting01/07/2016

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
Incorporated2006-07-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85100 — Pre-primary education

Registered office

1 Bond Street
Colne
Lancashire
BB8 9DG
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-15
Last: 2025-07-01

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

HARGRAVES, Adam Mark→
director · ~45y · appointed 2025-04-17
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Active
MCDONALD, Paulene Joyce→
director · ~65y · appointed 2006-07-27
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Active
HARGRAVES, Emma→
secretary · appointed 2006-07-27 · resigned 2015-02-16
Resigned
MCDONALD, Anthony Clifford→
director · ~58y · appointed 2015-02-16 · resigned 2018-05-11
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Debenture1 property22/06/2012—
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Recent filings (59 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-04-28
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-04-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-11
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-08-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-08-05