ABBEYFIELD YORK HOME CARE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

06563617 · ltd · incorporated 2008-04-12

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other human health activities

Sector: Human health & social work

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

9 officers (4 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

58 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.

Key financials

2 years 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 · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	—	£617
Current assets	—	£59.3k
Net assets	—	£617
Average employees	2	—

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand

2026-04-16
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POTRYKUS, Elizabeth Louise appointed
director
2026-04-16
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officers · AP01
2025-12-19
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accounts · AA
2024-12-16
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officers · TM01
2024-09-24
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accounts · AA
2023-09-19
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HUTCHINSON, Sally resigned
director
2023-08-10
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accounts · AA
2022-11-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-04-14
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DIXON, Anthony John appointed
secretary
2022-04-14
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DIXON, Anthony John appointed
director
2022-04-14
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officers · AP01
2022-04-14
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officers · AP03
2022-04-13
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officers · TM01
2022-04-13
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officers · TM02
2022-03-31
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LEWIS OGDEN, James Philip resigned
secretary
2022-03-31
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LEWIS OGDEN, James Philip resigned
director
2021-09-29
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accounts · AA
2021-02-16
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2019-10-07
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2018-10-02
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accounts · AA
2018-01-18
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officers · TM01
2017-11-13
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THE ABBEYFIELD YORK SOCIETY LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
2017-09-15
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accounts · AA
2008-12-03
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HUTCHINSON, Sally appointed
director
2008-12-03
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LEWIS OGDEN, James Philip appointed
director
2008-10-31
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WALKER, David Gordon appointed
director
2008-05-09
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WALKER, Rebecca Louise resigned
director
2008-05-09
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THE ABBEYFIELD YORK SOCIETY LIMITED appointed
corporate-director
2008-04-12
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Company incorporated
As ABBEYFIELD YORK HOME CARE LIMITED
2008-04-12
➕
LEWIS OGDEN, James Philip appointed
secretary
2008-04-12
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WALKER, Rebecca Louise appointed
director

Owner dependency

75/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
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.)

Group structure

The Abbeyfield York Society Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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The Abbeyfield York Society Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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ABBEYFIELD YORK HOME CARE LIMITED

This company · 06563617

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
The Abbeyfield York Society Ltd Corporate entity	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.

🔒Co-director network graph

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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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2008-04-12

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC86900 — Other human health activities

Registered office

Abbeyfield House

Regency Mews

York

North Yorkshire

YO24 1LL

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-26

Last: 2026-04-12

Officers (4 active · 5 resigned)

DIXON, Anthony John→

secretary · appointed 2022-04-14

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Active

DIXON, Anthony John→

director · ~63y · appointed 2022-04-14

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Active

POTRYKUS, Elizabeth Louise→

director · ~67y · appointed 2026-04-16

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Active

WALKER, David Gordon→

director · ~58y · appointed 2008-10-31

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Active

LEWIS OGDEN, James Philip→

secretary · appointed 2008-04-12 · resigned 2022-03-31

Resigned

HUTCHINSON, Sally→

director · ~74y · appointed 2008-12-03 · resigned 2023-09-19

Resigned

LEWIS OGDEN, James Philip→

director · ~65y · appointed 2008-12-03 · resigned 2022-03-31

Resigned

WALKER, Rebecca Louise→

director · ~49y · appointed 2008-04-12 · resigned 2008-05-09

Resigned

THE ABBEYFIELD YORK SOCIETY LIMITED→

corporate-director · appointed 2008-05-09 · resigned 2017-11-13

Resigned

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Recent filings (58 total)

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officers · AP01

2026-04-16

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-04-16

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accounts · AA

2025-12-19

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-04-15

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officers · TM01

2024-12-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-09-24

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-04-24

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-08-10

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-04-12

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2022-11-28

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-04-14

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2022-04-14

appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date

officers · AP03

2022-04-14

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2022-04-13

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officers · TM02

2022-04-13