C24 LTD

🌳Matureactive
06972877 · ltd · incorporated 2009-07-27
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.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 10.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other information technology service activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: asset-holding vehicle with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. 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 10.4y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
17 officers (2 active, 17 linked, 14 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
18 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
94 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
75
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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £1

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£1
~ YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
£0£0£0£1£1£1Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£1£1
Debtors£1£1
Net assets£1£1

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
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (54 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-31
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  3. 2024-12-18
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    DELUCA, Vincent appointed
    director
  4. 2024-09-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-06-17
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2024-06-11
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    CRAWLEY-TRICE, Simon Richard resigned
    director
  7. 2023-12-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-09-26
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  9. 2023-09-13
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    REDDING, Matthew resigned
    secretary
  10. 2022-12-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-06-07
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  12. 2022-06-07
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  13. 2022-05-11
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    MANUEL, David Colin appointed
    director
  14. 2022-05-11
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    KARAOLIS, Stylianos resigned
    director
  15. 2021-12-24
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  16. 2021-12-24
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  17. 2021-12-23
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    MITCHELL, Steven Keith resigned
    director
  18. 2021-12-15
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    KARAOLIS, Stylianos appointed
    director
  19. 2021-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  20. 2021-05-26
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  21. 2021-05-26
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  22. 2021-05-12
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    CRAWLEY-TRICE, Simon Richard appointed
    director
  23. 2021-05-12
    ➖
    HOWSON, David Michael resigned
    director
  24. 2021-01-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-audit-exemption-subsiduary
    accounts · AA
  25. 2021-01-07
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    legacy
    accounts · PARENT_ACC
  26. 2021-01-07
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    legacy
    other · AGREEMENT2
  27. 2021-01-07
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    legacy
    other · GUARANTEE2
  28. 2019-11-15
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  29. 2019-10-28
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    REDDING, Matthew appointed
    secretary
  30. 2019-04-15
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    Charge satisfied #1
  31. 2018-03-06
    ➖
    CHAPMAN, Kirsty resigned
    director
  32. 2018-03-06
    ➕
    MITCHELL, Steven Keith appointed
    director
  33. 2017-09-08
    ➕
    CHAPMAN, Kirsty appointed
    director
  34. 2017-09-08
    ➖
    ING, Michael Andrew resigned
    director
  35. 2017-07-28
    ➖
    FOY, Matthew resigned
    director
  36. 2017-07-28
    ➖
    HEMMING, Paul resigned
    director
  37. 2017-04-30
    ➖
    SMITH, Ronald Watson resigned
    director
  38. 2017-02-01
    ➕
    HOWSON, David Michael appointed
    director
  39. 2017-01-31
    ➖
    MILLS, Alastair Richard resigned
    director
  40. 2016-10-07
    ➖
    HOWE, Adrian Trevor resigned
    director
  41. 2016-10-07
    ➕
    ING, Michael Andrew appointed
    director
  42. 2016-06-30
    ➖
    BOOTH, Andrew Arnold resigned
    secretary
  43. 2016-02-25
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Ardian Private Debt Iii
  44. 2015-10-01
    ➕
    BOOTH, Andrew Arnold appointed
    secretary
  45. 2015-10-01
    ➖
    HEMMING, Paul resigned
    secretary
  46. 2015-10-01
    ➕
    HOWE, Adrian Trevor appointed
    director
  47. 2015-10-01
    ➕
    MILLS, Alastair Richard appointed
    director
  48. 2015-10-01
    ➕
    SMITH, Ronald Watson appointed
    director
  49. 2011-05-18
    ➕
    FOY, Matthew appointed
    director
  50. 2010-06-07
    ➖
    TAYLOR, Timothy Robert resigned
    director
Showing most recent 50 of 54 events

Owner dependency

66/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

46/100
Moderate signal

Some succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

Six Degrees Investments Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

🏛️
Six Degrees Investments Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
⬇
C24 LTD
This company · 06972877

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Six Degrees Investments Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board controlsig. influence75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · significant influence06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
Incorporated2009-07-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities

Registered office

Commodity Quay
St Katharine Docks
London
E1W 1AZ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-08
Last: 2025-07-25

Officers (2 active · 15 resigned)

DELUCA, Vincent→
director · ~62y · appointed 2024-12-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MANUEL, David Colin→
director · ~57y · appointed 2022-05-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BOOTH, Andrew Arnold→
secretary · appointed 2015-10-01 · resigned 2016-06-30
Resigned
HEMMING, Paul→
secretary · appointed 2009-07-27 · resigned 2015-10-01
Resigned
REDDING, Matthew→
secretary · appointed 2019-10-28 · resigned 2023-09-13
Resigned
CHAPMAN, Kirsty→
director · ~49y · appointed 2017-09-08 · resigned 2018-03-06
Resigned
CRAWLEY-TRICE, Simon Richard→
director · ~54y · appointed 2021-05-12 · resigned 2024-06-11
Resigned
FOY, Matthew→
director · ~47y · appointed 2011-05-18 · resigned 2017-07-28
Resigned
HEMMING, Paul→
director · ~59y · appointed 2009-07-27 · resigned 2017-07-28
Resigned
HOWE, Adrian Trevor→
director · ~65y · appointed 2015-10-01 · resigned 2016-10-07
Resigned
HOWSON, David Michael→
director · ~56y · appointed 2017-02-01 · resigned 2021-05-12
Resigned
ING, Michael Andrew→
director · ~60y · appointed 2016-10-07 · resigned 2017-09-08
Resigned
KARAOLIS, Stylianos→
director · ~47y · appointed 2021-12-15 · resigned 2022-05-11
Resigned
MILLS, Alastair Richard→
director · ~54y · appointed 2015-10-01 · resigned 2017-01-31
Resigned
MITCHELL, Steven Keith→
director · ~50y · appointed 2018-03-06 · resigned 2021-12-23
Resigned
SMITH, Ronald Watson→
director · ~62y · appointed 2015-10-01 · resigned 2017-04-30
Resigned
TAYLOR, Timothy Robert→
director · ~58y · appointed 2009-07-27 · resigned 2010-06-07
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Ardian Private Debt Iii
A registered charge—25/02/201615/04/2019

Recent filings (94 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-25
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-12-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-09-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-30
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-12-06
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-12-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-03
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-06-07
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-06-07
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-12-24
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-12-24