ABBEYGATES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06115956 · ltd · incorporated 2007-02-19
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£-1.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other building completion and finishing
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -44% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. 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
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
47 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £1,926
Net assets shrinking
Down £7,083 YoY
Cash draining
Cash down 44% YoY
Cash YoY
-44%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£27k
↓ 44% YoY
Net Worth
-£2k
↓ 137% YoY
Current Assets
£27k
↓ 43% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
-£2k£8k£18k£28k£38k£48kApr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Total assets£2.6k£13.8k
Current assets£27.2k£48.0k
Cash£26.8k£47.7k
Debtors£361£346
Net assets£-1.9k£5.2k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-25
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    address · AD02
  3. 2024-10-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-02-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  5. 2023-10-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-10-10
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  7. 2021-10-11
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  8. 2020-10-08
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  9. 2019-07-15
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  10. 2018-10-16
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  11. 2017-11-13
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  12. 2016-10-21
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  13. 2016-02-22
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  14. 2015-11-04
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  15. 2015-02-24
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  16. 2007-02-19
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    Company incorporated
    As ABBEYGATES LIMITED
  17. 2007-02-19
    ➕
    PAUL GLOVER ASSOCIATES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2007-02-19
    ➕
    NEEDHAM, Richard appointed
    director
  19. 2007-02-19
    ➕
    NEEDHAM, Tomoko appointed
    director
  20. 2007-02-19
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    INCORPORATE SECRETARIAT LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2007-02-19
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    INCORPORATE SECRETARIAT LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

84/100
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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Richard Needham
Individual · British · DOB 07/1966 · age 60
50–75%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting19/02/2017
Mrs Tomoko Needham
Individual · Japanese · DOB 07/1972 · age 54
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting19/02/2017

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
Incorporated2007-02-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC43390 — Other building completion and finishing

Registered office

Progress House Rowles Way
Swavesey
Cambridge
CB24 4UG
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-05
Last: 2026-02-19

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

PAUL GLOVER ASSOCIATES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-02-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NEEDHAM, Richard→
director · ~60y · appointed 2007-02-19
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Active
NEEDHAM, Tomoko→
director · ~54y · appointed 2007-02-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
INCORPORATE SECRETARIAT LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2007-02-19 · resigned 2007-02-19
Resigned

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Recent filings (47 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-07
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2025-02-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-02-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-02-19