ASPIRE CONSULTING EUROPE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06182442 · ltd · incorporated 2007-03-23
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 16.3y 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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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 96020Hairdressing and other beauty treatment
  • 96040Physical well-being activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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

1 live charge · oldest 16.3y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 16.3 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 (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 3 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
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
48 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
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 · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2025-10-02
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    address · AD01
  3. 2025-10-01
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    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-10-01
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  5. 2025-10-01
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    officers · CH03
  6. 2025-10-01
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2024-12-19
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  8. 2023-12-18
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  9. 2022-12-16
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  10. 2022-08-24
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    address · AD01
  11. 2021-12-16
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  12. 2020-12-17
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  13. 2019-11-25
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  14. 2018-12-20
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  15. 2017-12-14
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  16. 2010-02-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2009-01-01
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    BROWN, Stewart William appointed
    director
  18. 2007-03-23
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    Company incorporated
    As ASPIRE CONSULTING EUROPE LIMITED
  19. 2007-03-23
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    BROWN, Svetlana appointed
    secretary
  20. 2007-03-23
    ➕
    BROWN, Max William appointed
    director
  21. 2007-03-23
    ➕
    BROWN, Svetlana appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Svetlana Brown
Individual · British · DOB 02/1966 · age 60
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting22/03/2017

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
Incorporated2007-03-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

19 Portland Square
Carlisle
CA1 1AJ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-06
Last: 2026-03-23

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

BROWN, Svetlana→
secretary · appointed 2007-03-23
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Active
BROWN, Max William→
director · ~40y · appointed 2007-03-23
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Active
BROWN, Stewart William→
director · ~65y · appointed 2009-01-01
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Active
BROWN, Svetlana→
director · ~60y · appointed 2007-03-23
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Debenture1 property26/02/2010—
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Recent filings (48 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-10-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-01
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-10-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-10-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-16
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-08-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-01