BTS CONSULTANTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06247075 · ltd · incorporated 2007-05-15
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 May 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Technical and vocational secondary education
Sector: Education
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 96090Other service activities n.e.c.
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. 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, 2 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
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
61 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0May 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Average employees200200

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
5
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 2 officers
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
7
filings
  • • 3 officers
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2026-05-26
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    replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
  3. 2026-05-15
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2026-04-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2026-03-06
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2026-03-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2026-01-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2025-02-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-01-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-01-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-05-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2021-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-11-19
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2020-11-19
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2020-11-19
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2020-11-19
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  18. 2020-11-19
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  19. 2007-05-15
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    Company incorporated
    As BTS CONSULTANTS LIMITED
  20. 2007-05-15
    ➕
    SMALLEY, Beverley Ann appointed
    secretary
  21. 2007-05-15
    ➕
    SMALLEY, Antony Simon Karim appointed
    director
  22. 2007-05-15
    ➕
    SMALLEY, Beverley Ann appointed
    director
  23. 2007-05-15
    ➕
    RM REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  24. 2007-05-15
    ➖
    RM REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2007-05-15
    ➕
    RM NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  26. 2007-05-15
    ➖
    RM NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director

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 62 — 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 62. 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
Antony Simon Karim Smalley
Individual · British · DOB 03/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Beverley Ann Smalley
Individual · British · DOB 03/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2007-05-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85320 — Technical and vocational secondary education

Registered office

Lynwood
Yockleton
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY5 9PN
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-26
Last: 2026-05-12

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

SMALLEY, Beverley Ann→
secretary · appointed 2007-05-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMALLEY, Antony Simon Karim→
director · ~62y · appointed 2007-05-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMALLEY, Beverley Ann→
director · ~62y · appointed 2007-05-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RM REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-05-15 · resigned 2007-05-15
Resigned
RM NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2007-05-15 · resigned 2007-05-15
Resigned

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Recent filings (61 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-03
replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
2026-05-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-05-15
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-03-06
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-27