ACKERLEY & ASSOCIATES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05906955 · ltd · incorporated 2006-08-15
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.
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
49 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31

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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filings
Last 180 days
1
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  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-20
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-16
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  3. 2024-03-19
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  4. 2023-12-16
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-10-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-09-29
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-10-02
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-11-01
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-09-09
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-08-27
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-10-20
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2015-09-22
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2015-09-03
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  14. 2014-10-10
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-09-10
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2011-02-03
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    ACKERLEY, Richard Paul appointed
    secretary
  17. 2011-02-03
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    ACKERLEY, Mary Nancy resigned
    secretary
  18. 2009-09-01
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    ACKERLEY, Richard Paul appointed
    director
  19. 2006-08-15
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    Company incorporated
    As ACKERLEY & ASSOCIATES LIMITED
  20. 2006-08-15
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    ACKERLEY, Peta appointed
    director
  21. 2006-08-15
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    ACKERLEY, Mary Nancy appointed
    secretary

Owner dependency

100/100
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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "ACKERLEY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
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 69. 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.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Richard Paul Ackerley
Individual · British · DOB 05/1960 · age 66
25–50%
25–50%board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence15/08/2016

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
Incorporated2006-08-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

The School House, Colber Lane
Bishop Thornton
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG3 3JR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-28
Last: 2025-08-14

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ACKERLEY, Richard Paul→
secretary · appointed 2011-02-03
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Active
ACKERLEY, Peta→
director · ~69y · appointed 2006-08-15
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Active
ACKERLEY, Richard Paul→
director · ~66y · appointed 2009-09-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ACKERLEY, Mary Nancy→
secretary · appointed 2006-08-15 · resigned 2011-02-03
Resigned

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Recent filings (49 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-26
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AAMD
2024-03-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-10-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-11-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-08-14