ACTIVE SUPPORT (LUTON) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06241578 · ltd · incorporated 2007-05-09
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
—
year to May 2025
Net worth
£28.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other education n.e.c.
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: asset-holding vehicle with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 58). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
59 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £28,844
Net assets shrinking
Down £90,491 YoY
Cash YoY
+9%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£132k
↑ 8.6% YoY
Net Worth
£29k
↓ 76% YoY
Current Assets
£133k
↑ 8.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£27k£53k£80k£107k£133kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£151.7k£242.2k
Current assets£133.3k£123.0k
Cash£131.8k£121.4k
Debtors£1.6k£1.6k
Net assets£28.8k£119.3k

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
2
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-31
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2026-05-31
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2026-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-08-01
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2025-08-01
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2025-08-01
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  7. 2025-07-10
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2025-05-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2024-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-07-01
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2021-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-11-18
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  15. 2020-11-17
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  16. 2020-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-02-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2007-05-09
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ACTIVE SUPPORT (LUTON) LIMITED
  19. 2007-05-09
    ➕
    KOYES, Shahed Ahmed appointed
    secretary
  20. 2007-05-09
    ➕
    FORD, Matthew James appointed
    director
  21. 2007-05-09
    ➕
    KOYES, Shahed Ahmed appointed
    director
  22. 2007-05-09
    ➕
    ONLINE REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2007-05-09
    ➖
    ONLINE REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  24. 2007-05-09
    ➕
    ONLINE FORMATIONS LTD appointed
    corporate-director
  25. 2007-05-09
    ➖
    ONLINE FORMATIONS LTD resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +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 58 — approaching natural succession window.

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 58. 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.)

Group structure

Jjk Investments Ltd holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

🏛️
Jjk Investments Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control
significant stake
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ACTIVE SUPPORT (LUTON) LIMITED
This company · 06241578

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

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Jjk Investments Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control01/08/2025
Mr Matthew James Ford
Individual · British · DOB 05/1968 · age 58
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control09/05/2017
Mr Shahed Ahmed Koyes
Individual · British · DOB 12/1980 · age 46
——sig. influencesignificant influence09/05/2017

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
Incorporated2007-05-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85590 — Other education n.e.c.

Registered office

Unit 1, Britannia Estates
Leagrave Road
Luton
Bed
LU3 1RJ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last: 2026-03-17

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

KOYES, Shahed Ahmed→
secretary · appointed 2007-05-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FORD, Matthew James→
director · ~58y · appointed 2007-05-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KOYES, Shahed Ahmed→
director · ~46y · appointed 2007-05-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ONLINE REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-05-09 · resigned 2007-05-09
Resigned
ONLINE FORMATIONS LTD→
corporate-director · appointed 2007-05-09 · resigned 2007-05-09
Resigned

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Recent filings (59 total)

change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-05-31
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-28
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-08-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-08-01
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-08-01
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-07-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-27