CITY MUSIC LESSONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

06024845 · ltd · incorporated 2006-12-11

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Dec 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Technical and vocational secondary education

Sector: Education

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

50 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-12-31	2024-12-31
Average employees	100	100

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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1 signal 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

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-04-15
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2025-09-17
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2024-08-13
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2023-07-20
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2022-03-28
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2021-09-21
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2020-09-29
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2020-08-14
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address · AD01
2019-12-04
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officers · TM01
2019-12-04
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2019-11-17
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LUTHER, Mark Jonathan resigned
director
2019-09-30
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accounts · AA
2018-10-04
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accounts · AA
2017-10-07
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accounts · AA
2017-06-26
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officers · AP01
2017-05-17
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officers · AP01
2017-05-16
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officers · TM02
2017-04-01
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LUTHER, Mark Jonathan resigned
secretary
2017-03-15
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BERINGER, Guy Gibson appointed
director
2017-03-15
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KECK, Colleen Anne appointed
director
2006-12-11
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Company incorporated
As CITY MUSIC LESSONS LIMITED
2006-12-11
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CHARLES, Howard Neil appointed
director
2006-12-11
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LUTHER, Mark Jonathan appointed
secretary
2006-12-11
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LUTHER, Mark Jonathan 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 71 — 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 71 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

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

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City Music Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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CITY MUSIC LESSONS LIMITED

This company · 06024845

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
City Music Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Howard Neil Charles Individual · British · DOB 05/1962 · age 64	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Mark Jonathan Lutherceased 04/06/2019· significant influence

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

Incorporated2006-12-11

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC85320 — Technical and vocational secondary education

Registered office

88 Hempland Close

Great Oakley

Corby

Northants

NN18 8LT

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-14

Last: 2025-09-30

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

BERINGER, Guy Gibson→

director · ~71y · appointed 2017-03-15

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Active

CHARLES, Howard Neil→

director · ~64y · appointed 2006-12-11

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Active

KECK, Colleen Anne→

director · ~68y · appointed 2017-03-15

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Active

LUTHER, Mark Jonathan→

secretary · appointed 2006-12-11 · resigned 2017-04-01

Resigned

LUTHER, Mark Jonathan→

director · ~65y · appointed 2006-12-11 · resigned 2019-11-17

Resigned

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