AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING LTD
🌳Matureactive
06514342 · ltd · incorporated 2008-02-26
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 7.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Feb 2025
Net worth
£98.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Technical and vocational secondary education
Sector: Education
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 7.8y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 7.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (80/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
52 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £98,330
Net assets shrinking
Down £3,908 YoY
Cash YoY
-2%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£10k
↓ 2.3% YoY
Net Worth
£98k
↓ 3.8% YoY
Current Assets
£103k
~ YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-02-28 | 2024-02-28 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £98.3k | £102.2k |
| Current assets | £102.8k | £103.4k |
| Cash | £9.5k | £9.7k |
| Debtors | £93.3k | £93.6k |
| Net assets | £98.3k | £102.2k |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
4 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
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See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
- 2025-07-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-07-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-11-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-02-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-02-08📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2022-03-30➕BANKS, Lynne appointeddirector
- 2022-03-30📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2021-11-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-10📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2020-11-01➖FULLER, Tracie Julia resignedsecretary
- 2019-11-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-30📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2018-08-13🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Together Commercial Finance Limited
- 2018-04-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-06-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-06-14📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2016-12-13➕FULLER, Tracie Julia appointedsecretary
- 2015-07-24➖MEIKLEJOHN, Vaughan resignedsecretary
- 2015-07-24➖MEIKLEJOHN, Vaughan resigneddirector
- 2008-02-26🏢Company incorporatedAs AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING LTD
- 2008-02-26➕BANKS, Nigel appointeddirector
- 2008-02-26➕MEIKLEJOHN, Vaughan appointedsecretary
- 2008-02-26➕MEIKLEJOHN, Vaughan appointeddirector
Owner dependency
91/100
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
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- 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 Nigel Banks Individual · British · DOB 05/1959 · age 67 | 75–100% | 75–100% | 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A MUTUALLY ASSOCIATED DEPTFORD COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT COALITION ("A MADCAP COALITION")→ 07517851 · est 2011 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 15y | — | — |
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| ACTION PLUS (UK) LTD→ 08524553 · est 2013 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 12y | — | — |
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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2008-02-26
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85320 — Technical and vocational secondary education
Registered office
63 Pine Way
Folkestone
CT19 4QL
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-14
Last: 2026-03-31
Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)
BANKS, Lynne→
Activedirector · ~69y · appointed 2022-03-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BANKS, Nigel→
Activedirector · ~67y · appointed 2008-02-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
FULLER, Tracie Julia→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2016-12-13 · resigned 2020-11-01
MEIKLEJOHN, Vaughan→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2008-02-26 · resigned 2015-07-24
MEIKLEJOHN, Vaughan→
Resigneddirector · ~65y · appointed 2008-02-26 · resigned 2015-07-24
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Together Money Together Commercial Finance Limited | A registered charge | 2 properties | 13/08/2018 | — |
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Recent filings (52 total)
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-28
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-02-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-30
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-24