APPLE BLOSSOM CHILDCARE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

06878698 · ltd · incorporated 2009-04-16

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 17.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

78/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Pre-primary education

Sector: Education

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 17.0y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 17.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

53 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

78/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Some acquirability indicators.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	55	4300

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2026-03-13
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2025-01-17
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2024-01-12
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accounts · AA
2023-04-06
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accounts · AA
2022-03-01
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accounts · AA
2021-01-09
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accounts · AA
2020-04-30
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officers · AP01
2020-04-30
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-04-30
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2020-04-30
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2020-04-30
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officers · TM01
2019-12-13
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accounts · AA
2019-08-01
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BALMER, Christian appointed
director
2019-08-01
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BALMER, Christian resigned
director
2019-01-02
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accounts · AA
2017-12-18
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accounts · AA
2017-07-07
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address · AD01
2016-06-20
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Charge registered #3
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2012-10-25
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Charge registered #2
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2009-05-21
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Charge registered #1
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2009-04-16
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Company incorporated
As APPLE BLOSSOM CHILDCARE LIMITED
2009-04-16
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BALMER, Phillippa appointed
director
2009-04-16
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BALMER, Christian 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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

59/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

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

Blindburn Assets Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Blindburn Assets Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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APPLE BLOSSOM CHILDCARE LIMITED

This company · 06878698

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
Blindburn Assets Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	01/08/2019

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Christian Balmerceased 01/08/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mrs Phillippa Balmerceased 01/08/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

Incorporated2009-04-16

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC85100 — Pre-primary education

Registered office

Blindburn Hall

Wark

Hexham

NE48 3HE

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last: 2026-04-16

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

BALMER, Christian→

director · ~50y · appointed 2019-08-01

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Active

BALMER, Phillippa→

director · ~46y · appointed 2009-04-16

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Active

BALMER, Christian→

director · ~50y · appointed 2009-04-16 · resigned 2019-08-01

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	A registered charge	1 property	20/06/2016	—
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	2 properties	25/10/2012	—
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	21/05/2009	—

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