ADVICE BEDFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

🌳Matureactive

06440092 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 2007-11-28

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

—

not disclosed

Net worth

—

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Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of other membership organisations n.e.c.

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: low (49/100)

Sparse data coverage. Treat AI-generated outputs as preliminary. Manual diligence essential.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

No iXBRL financials extracted

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

9 officers (5 active, 9 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

63 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 2 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand

2026-02-14
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officers · TM01
2026-01-04
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accounts · AA
2025-12-17
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officers · CH01
2025-12-02
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officers · TM01
2025-06-30
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VERNEY, David resigned
director
2024-12-30
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accounts · AA
2024-01-16
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officers · TM01
2024-01-12
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MACDOWELL, Sylvia Doris resigned
director
2023-11-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-15
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officers · AP01
2022-09-14
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SIMKINS, Leonard John appointed
director
2022-09-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2022-09-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2022-07-26
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-07-05
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change-person-director-company
officers · CH01
2022-07-04
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-02-15
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-17
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-12-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-01
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CONDER, Samantha Jane appointed
director
2020-12-01
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officers · AP01
2019-12-05
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MACDOWELL, Sylvia Doris appointed
director
2019-02-28
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RICHARDSON HAWKES, Tanya Lorraine resigned
director
2017-12-01
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STEPHENSON, Elliott Mark appointed
director
2015-06-17
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MCLEOD, Fiona Rutherford resigned
director
2014-06-19
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MCLEOD, Fiona Rutherford appointed
director
2010-06-10
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BIRD, Wendy Therese appointed
director
2007-11-28
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Company incorporated
As ADVICE BEDFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
2007-11-28
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SIMKINS, Leonard John appointed
secretary
2007-11-28
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RICHARDSON HAWKES, Tanya Lorraine appointed
director
2007-11-28
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VERNEY, David appointed
director

Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated2007-11-28

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC94990 — Activities of other membership organisations n.e.c.

Registered office

28 Bushmead Avenue

Bedford

Bedfordshire

MK40 3QN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last: 2025-12-17