CALLESTICK FARM ICE CREAM LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
05924889 · ltd · incorporated 2006-09-05
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 19.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10520
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 19.2y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 19.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (5 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
54 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 accountsCash
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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 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | — | £2.19M |
| Current assets | — | £1.44M |
| Cash | — | £5.4k |
| Debtors | — | £433.9k |
| Net assets | — | £523.2k |
| Average employees | 36 | — |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-09-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-09-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-09-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-07-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-04-18📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statementpersons-with-significant-control · PSC08
- 2019-04-18📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2018-08-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-09-06📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2017-07-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-09-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-09-05📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2016-01-19➖PARKER, Judith resigneddirector
- 2015-09-11📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2008-10-17➖PARKER, Simon Sebastian resigneddirector
- 2007-07-31🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2007-02-26🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2006-09-05🏢Company incorporatedAs CALLESTICK FARM ICE CREAM LIMITED
- 2006-09-05➕PARKER, Benjamin Sebastian appointedsecretary
- 2006-09-05➕PARKER, Angela Moira Clare appointeddirector
- 2006-09-05➕PARKER, Benjamin Sebastian appointeddirector
- 2006-09-05➕PARKER, John Sebastian appointeddirector
- 2006-09-05➕PARKER, Samuel Reuben appointeddirector
- 2006-09-05➕SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2006-09-05➖SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2006-09-05➕PARKER, Judith appointeddirector
- 2006-09-05➕PARKER, Simon Sebastian appointeddirector
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- -4 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 72 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
83/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
🔒Co-director network graph
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| BAREFOOT NUTRITION LTD→ 10696828 · est 2017 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 9y | — | — |
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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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-09-05
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10520 — SIC 10520
Registered office
Callestick Farm
Callestick
Truro
Cornwall
TR4 9LL
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-19
Last: 2025-09-05
Officers (5 active · 3 resigned)
PARKER, Benjamin Sebastian→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-09-05
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PARKER, Angela Moira Clare→
Activedirector · ~71y · appointed 2006-09-05
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PARKER, Benjamin Sebastian→
Activedirector · ~46y · appointed 2006-09-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
PARKER, John Sebastian→
Activedirector · ~72y · appointed 2006-09-05
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PARKER, Samuel Reuben→
Activedirector · ~44y · appointed 2006-09-05
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-09-05 · resigned 2006-09-05
PARKER, Judith→
Resigneddirector · ~97y · appointed 2006-09-05 · resigned 2016-01-19
PARKER, Simon Sebastian→
Resigneddirector · ~99y · appointed 2006-09-05 · resigned 2008-10-17
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 31/07/2007 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 26/02/2007 | — |
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Recent filings (54 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-05
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2019-04-18