TRANSFORM SCHOOLS (KNOWSLEY) HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06261439 · ltd · incorporated 2007-05-29
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 18.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: asset-holding vehicle with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 18.5y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
19 officers (3 active, 19 linked, 14 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
20 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
106 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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year 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 · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-31

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
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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (57 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-29
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  4. 2023-11-29
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    change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH04
  5. 2023-07-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-05-23
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2023-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-04-05
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2022-04-01
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    THOMPSON, Roger Mark resigned
    director
  10. 2022-02-25
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2022-01-18
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2022-01-12
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    appoint-corporate-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP04
  13. 2022-01-12
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  14. 2022-01-10
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  15. 2022-01-06
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    RESOLIS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  16. 2022-01-05
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    VERCITY SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE (UK) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  17. 2022-01-01
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    GORDON, John Stephen appointed
    director
  18. 2021-10-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  19. 2021-10-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  20. 2021-07-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  21. 2021-05-10
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    change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH04
  22. 2020-12-10
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  23. 2020-12-08
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    termination-director-company
    officers · TM01
  24. 2020-10-21
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    TEMPLETON, Matthew appointed
    director
  25. 2020-10-21
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    GORDON, Stephen resigned
    director
  26. 2018-07-06
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    CLAPP, Andrew David, Mr. resigned
    director
  27. 2015-10-12
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    GORDON, Stephen appointed
    director
  28. 2015-10-12
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    MCDONAGH, John resigned
    director
  29. 2015-10-12
    ➕
    THOMPSON, Roger Mark appointed
    director
  30. 2014-10-01
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    TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  31. 2014-10-01
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    VERCITY SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE (UK) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  32. 2014-06-12
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    BUCKLEY, George Lawrence resigned
    director
  33. 2014-06-12
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    CLAPP, Andrew David, Mr. appointed
    director
  34. 2014-06-12
    ➖
    CLAPP, Andrew David, Mr. resigned
    director
  35. 2014-06-12
    ➕
    CLAPP, Andrew David, Mr. appointed
    director
  36. 2014-06-12
    ➖
    GLADWELL, Lynn resigned
    director
  37. 2014-06-12
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    MCDONAGH, John appointed
    director
  38. 2014-06-12
    ➖
    WALKER, Kevin Vernon resigned
    director
  39. 2012-01-06
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    GLADWELL, Lynn appointed
    director
  40. 2012-01-06
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    WILLS, Helen Margaret resigned
    director
  41. 2011-05-19
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Royal Bank of Canada Europe Limited
  42. 2010-10-01
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    BUCKLEY, George Lawrence appointed
    director
  43. 2010-10-01
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    ROSS, Michael Melville Brown resigned
    director
  44. 2009-06-23
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    WALKER, Kevin Vernon appointed
    director
  45. 2009-06-03
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    SPENCER, Christopher Loraine resigned
    director
  46. 2008-01-17
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    APPUHAMY, Ion Francis resigned
    director
  47. 2008-01-17
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    WILLS, Helen Margaret appointed
    director
  48. 2007-12-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Royal Bank of Canada Europe Limited as Agent and Trustee for the Secured Creditors (Thesecurity Trustee)
  49. 2007-12-11
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    CURRY, Jaskiran Kaur resigned
    secretary
  50. 2007-12-11
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    TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
Showing most recent 50 of 57 events

Owner dependency

66/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

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

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Ppdi Assetco Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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TRANSFORM SCHOOLS (KNOWSLEY) HOLDINGS LIMITED
This company · 06261439

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ppdi Assetco Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board controlsig. influence75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Advanced scoring suite

Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2007-05-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

1 Park Row
Leeds
LS1 5AB
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-23
Last: 2026-01-09

Officers (3 active · 16 resigned)

RESOLIS LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2022-01-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GORDON, John Stephen→
director · ~64y · appointed 2022-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TEMPLETON, Matthew→
director · ~53y · appointed 2020-10-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CURRY, Jaskiran Kaur→
secretary · appointed 2007-05-29 · resigned 2007-12-11
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2007-05-29 · resigned 2007-05-29
Resigned
TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-12-11 · resigned 2014-10-01
Resigned
VERCITY SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE (UK) LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2014-10-01 · resigned 2022-01-05
Resigned
APPUHAMY, Ion Francis→
director · ~62y · appointed 2007-10-05 · resigned 2008-01-17
Resigned
BUCKLEY, George Lawrence→
director · ~62y · appointed 2010-10-01 · resigned 2014-06-12
Resigned
CLAPP, Andrew David, Mr.→
director · ~51y · appointed 2014-06-12 · resigned 2014-06-12
Resigned
CLAPP, Andrew David, Mr.→
director · ~51y · appointed 2014-06-12 · resigned 2018-07-06
Resigned
GLADWELL, Lynn→
director · ~60y · appointed 2012-01-06 · resigned 2014-06-12
Resigned
GORDON, Stephen→
director · ~64y · appointed 2015-10-12 · resigned 2020-10-21
Resigned
MCDONAGH, John→
director · ~57y · appointed 2014-06-12 · resigned 2015-10-12
Resigned
ROSS, Michael Melville Brown→
director · ~83y · appointed 2007-05-29 · resigned 2010-10-01
Resigned
SPENCER, Christopher Loraine→
director · ~71y · appointed 2007-05-29 · resigned 2009-06-03
Resigned
THOMPSON, Roger Mark→
director · ~72y · appointed 2015-10-12 · resigned 2022-04-01
Resigned
WALKER, Kevin Vernon→
director · ~69y · appointed 2009-06-23 · resigned 2014-06-12
Resigned
WILLS, Helen Margaret→
director · ~61y · appointed 2008-01-17 · resigned 2012-01-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Royal Bank of Canada Europe
Royal Bank of Canada Europe Limited
Supplemental debenture1 property19/05/2011—
outstanding
Royal Bank of Canada Europe as Agent and Trustee for the Secured Creditors (Thesecurity Trustee)
Royal Bank of Canada Europe Limited as Agent and Trustee for the Secured Creditors (Thesecurity Trustee)
Security agreement1 property13/12/2007—
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Recent filings (106 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-09-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-01-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2023-11-29
change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2023-11-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-07-17
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-01-04
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-04-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-02-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-01-18