AVOCET CLEANING SERVICES LIMITED
💤Zombieactive
06494890 · ltd · incorporated 2008-02-06
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
£362.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: General cleaning of buildings
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
PursueAsset-holding vehicle with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
Data confidence
Overall: medium (77/100)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
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 1 with DOB)
74
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
48 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
80
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 · accounting standard not declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £362,473
Cash YoY
+21%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£200k
↑ 21% YoY
Net Worth
£362k
↑ 27% YoY
Current Assets
£452k
↑ 24% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £363.9k | £289.0k |
| Current assets | £452.0k | £364.4k |
| Cash | £200.1k | £165.3k |
| Debtors | £249.0k | £196.5k |
| Net assets | £362.5k | £285.5k |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-05-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-02-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-04-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-10-12📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2020-10-12📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-10-12📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2020-01-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-01-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-01-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-02-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-04-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-02-10📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2015-06-09➕COLLINS, Pauline appointedsecretary
- 2009-11-09➖BARKER, Barbara resignedsecretary
- 2008-02-06🏢Company incorporatedAs AVOCET CLEANING SERVICES LIMITED
- 2008-02-06➕CURRINGTON, Paul Stuart appointeddirector
- 2008-02-06➕BARKER, Barbara appointedsecretary
- 2008-02-06➕TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2008-02-06➖TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2008-02-06➕COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
- 2008-02-06➖COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
100/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
98/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 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
cleanNo 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%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Paul Stuart Currington Individual · British · DOB 06/1951 · age 75 | 75–100% | — | 75-100% shares | 06/02/2017 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A & R COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY SERVICE LIMITED→ 08338810 · est 2012 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 13y | — | — |
| A & S BUILDING & LANDSCAPING LIMITED→ 15815505 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
| A S A LANDSCAPES LIMITED→ 11051799 · est 2017 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 8y | — | — |
| ANDREW BLIGH LTD→ 10656436 · est 2017 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 9y | — | — |
| ANDY ARCHER CONSULTING LIMITED→ 15215446 · est 2023 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 2y | — | — |
| ANGEL AESTHETICS LIMITED→ 10709024 · est 2017 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 9y | — | — |
| ANGEL JACKSON SQUARE LIMITED→ 16790947 · est 2025 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| ANGELHOOD LTD→ 15810783 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
| APEXOPS LTD→ 15755016 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
| APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY SOLUTIONS LIMITED→ 08164446 · est 2012 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 13y | — | — |
| AQUA-TECH AND LANDSCAPES LIMITED→ 14703531 · est 2023 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 3y | — | — |
| AQUARIUS PIERCINGS LTD→ 14639829 · est 2023 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 3y | — | — |
Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
8 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.
See pricing →🔒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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2008-02-06
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC81210 — General cleaning of buildings
Registered office
Lower Court 8, Copley Business Park Cambridge Road
Babraham
Cambridge
CB22 3GN
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-20
Last: 2026-02-06
Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)
Active
CURRINGTON, Paul Stuart→
Activedirector · ~75y · appointed 2008-02-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BARKER, Barbara→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2008-02-06 · resigned 2009-11-09
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2008-02-06 · resigned 2008-02-06
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 2008-02-06 · resigned 2008-02-06
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Recent filings (48 total)
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2026-05-29
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-09
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2020-10-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-10-12
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-10-12