AWARDS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06707388 · ltd · incorporated 2008-09-25
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 9.4y 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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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Public relations and communications activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). 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 9.4y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.4 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
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
54 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31

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.

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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 (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-02-28
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  5. 2022-02-24
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    KIRCANSKI, Ivana appointed
    director
  6. 2022-01-24
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  7. 2022-01-20
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    KIRCANSKI, Ivana resigned
    director
  8. 2022-01-18
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  9. 2022-01-15
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    KIRCANSKI, Ivana appointed
    director
  10. 2022-01-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-10-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-12-21
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    gazette · DISS40
  14. 2019-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-12-03
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  16. 2019-03-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-12-29
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  18. 2018-12-11
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  19. 2017-12-27
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  20. 2017-03-17
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  21. 2014-11-01
    ➖
    HALES, Donald George resigned
    director
  22. 2009-03-03
    ➖
    WATERFIELD, Cindy Michelle Belinda resigned
    secretary
  23. 2009-03-03
    ➖
    WATERFIELD, Cindy-Michelle Belinda, Ms. resigned
    director
  24. 2008-09-25
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    Company incorporated
    As AWARDS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
  25. 2008-09-25
    ➕
    SKEHEL, Cornelius appointed
    director
  26. 2008-09-25
    ➕
    WATERFIELD, Cindy Michelle Belinda appointed
    secretary
  27. 2008-09-25
    ➕
    HALES, Donald George appointed
    director
  28. 2008-09-25
    ➕
    WATERFIELD, Cindy-Michelle Belinda, Ms. appointed
    director

Owner dependency

76/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. 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

clean
No 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Cornelius Skehel
Individual · British · DOB 11/1963 · age 63
——sig. influencesignificant influence07/04/2016

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

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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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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
Incorporated2008-09-25
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70210 — Public relations and communications activities

Registered office

Acacia Farm
Lower Road
Royston
Hertfordshire
SG8 0EE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-27
Last: 2026-05-13

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

KIRCANSKI, Ivana→
director · ~46y · appointed 2022-02-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SKEHEL, Cornelius→
director · ~63y · appointed 2008-09-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WATERFIELD, Cindy Michelle Belinda→
secretary · appointed 2008-09-25 · resigned 2009-03-03
Resigned
HALES, Donald George→
director · ~84y · appointed 2008-09-25 · resigned 2014-11-01
Resigned
KIRCANSKI, Ivana→
director · ~46y · appointed 2022-01-15 · resigned 2022-01-20
Resigned
WATERFIELD, Cindy-Michelle Belinda, Ms.→
director · ~55y · appointed 2008-09-25 · resigned 2009-03-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
A registered charge—17/03/2017—
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Recent filings (54 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-14
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-02-28
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-01-24
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-01-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-19