ALFORD CREMATORIUM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05900444 · ltd · incorporated 2006-08-09
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 17.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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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: Funeral and related activities
Sector: Other service activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 17.2y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 17.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
55 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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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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 employees800700

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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 (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-08
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-08-14
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2024-08-14
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-08-14
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2024-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-07-31
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  8. 2022-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-11-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-09-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-09-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-10-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-08-09
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  15. 2016-11-01
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2014-11-04
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    Charge satisfied #1
  17. 2009-03-17
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Castlegate Trustees Limited, Kitty Elizabeth Hamilton and Dianna Gay James
  18. 2006-08-09
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    Company incorporated
    As ALFORD CREMATORIUM LIMITED
  19. 2006-08-09
    ➕
    MITCHELL, Rosanne Joy appointed
    secretary
  20. 2006-08-09
    ➕
    HAMILTON, Kitty Elizabeth appointed
    director
  21. 2006-08-09
    ➕
    JAMES, Dianna Gay appointed
    director
  22. 2006-08-09
    ➕
    PECK, Nicholas Richard Givron appointed
    director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Willoughby Farms Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Willoughby Farms Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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ALFORD CREMATORIUM LIMITED
This company · 05900444

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Willoughby Farms Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 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
Incorporated2006-08-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC96030 — Funeral and related activities

Registered office

The Estate Office
Elsom Farm, Bonthorpe
Alford
Lincolnshire
LN13 9TD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-23
Last: 2025-08-09

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

MITCHELL, Rosanne Joy→
secretary · appointed 2006-08-09
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Active
HAMILTON, Kitty Elizabeth→
director · ~46y · appointed 2006-08-09
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Active
JAMES, Dianna Gay→
director · ~72y · appointed 2006-08-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PECK, Nicholas Richard Givron→
director · ~71y · appointed 2006-08-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Castlegate Trustees , Kitty Elizabeth Hamilton and Dianna Gay James
Castlegate Trustees Limited, Kitty Elizabeth Hamilton and Dianna Gay James
Legal charge2 properties17/03/200904/11/2014

Recent filings (55 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-08-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-08-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-08-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-09
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2023-07-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-23