AWL IMAGES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06851640 · ltd · incorporated 2009-03-18
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£79.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Artistic creation
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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 (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
50 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Positive net assets
Net assets £79,918
Net assets shrinking
Down £8,841 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£80k
↓ 10.0% YoY
Current Assets
£155k
↓ 13% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£36k£71k£107k£143k£178kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£79.9k£88.8k
Current assets£154.9k£178.1k
Net assets£79.9k£88.8k

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-10-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-06-08
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  4. 2024-06-04
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  5. 2023-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-10-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-11-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-10-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2018-09-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-06-05
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2018-03-26
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  14. 2018-03-26
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  15. 2017-11-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2009-03-18
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    Company incorporated
    As AWL IMAGES LIMITED
  17. 2009-03-18
    ➕
    WARBURTON-LEE, John Henry Bernard appointed
    secretary
  18. 2009-03-18
    ➕
    ARNOLD, Jonathan Nicholas appointed
    director
  19. 2009-03-18
    ➕
    WARBURTON-LEE, John Henry Bernard appointed
    director
  20. 2009-03-18
    ➕
    JPCORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  21. 2009-03-18
    ➖
    JPCORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2009-03-18
    ➕
    O'DONNELL, John Patrick appointed
    director
  23. 2009-03-18
    ➖
    O'DONNELL, John Patrick resigned
    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 17 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 17 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
John Warburton-Lee Photography Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
🏛️
Jon Arnold Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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AWL IMAGES LIMITED
This company · 06851640

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
John Warburton-Lee Photography Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Jon Arnold Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-03-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC90030 — Artistic creation

Registered office

The Old Stables Broad Oak
Whitchurch
Shropshire
SY13 3AQ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-25
Last: 2026-03-11

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

WARBURTON-LEE, John Henry Bernard→
secretary · appointed 2009-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ARNOLD, Jonathan Nicholas→
director · ~59y · appointed 2009-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WARBURTON-LEE, John Henry Bernard→
director · ~63y · appointed 2009-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JPCORS LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2009-03-18 · resigned 2009-03-18
Resigned
O'DONNELL, John Patrick→
director · ~81y · appointed 2009-03-18 · resigned 2009-03-18
Resigned

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Recent filings (50 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-10-02
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2024-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-06
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2024-06-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-10-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-26