BRIDGES SP FUND (GENERAL PARTNER) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07030469 · ltd · incorporated 2009-09-25
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 16.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Fund management activities
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (65/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 16.0y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 16.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — 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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (2 active, 10 linked, 10 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
19 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
66 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.

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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-11
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    dissolution-voluntary-strike-off-suspended
    dissolution · SOAS(A)
  3. 2024-12-31
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    gazette-notice-voluntary
    gazette · GAZ1(A)
  4. 2024-12-20
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    dissolution-application-strike-off-company
    dissolution · DS01
  5. 2024-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-11-25
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  7. 2024-11-25
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    Charge satisfied #2
  8. 2023-12-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-10-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-02-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-09-02
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  13. 2020-08-20
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    MORRISON, Stephen James resigned
    director
  14. 2019-10-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-11-13
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  16. 2018-10-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-07-10
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  18. 2018-07-02
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    GLENNON, Millie Catherine resigned
    director
  19. 2017-07-19
    ➕
    RINGER, Simon David appointed
    director
  20. 2017-07-19
    ➕
    MORRISON, Stephen James appointed
    director
  21. 2016-12-19
    ➕
    RICHINGS, Paul David appointed
    director
  22. 2016-12-19
    ➕
    RICHINGS, Paul David appointed
    director
  23. 2016-12-19
    ➖
    RICHINGS, Paul David resigned
    director
  24. 2016-12-19
    ➖
    SENIOR, Helen Alice resigned
    director
  25. 2013-07-04
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    Charge satisfied #1
  26. 2013-06-28
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
  27. 2012-02-09
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    GLENNON, Millie Catherine appointed
    director
  28. 2011-11-30
    ➖
    GIDDENS, Michele Caroline resigned
    director
  29. 2011-11-30
    ➖
    MAW, John Rory Hamilton resigned
    director
  30. 2011-11-30
    ➖
    NEWBOROUGH, Philip William resigned
    director
  31. 2011-11-30
    ➖
    RINGER, Simon David resigned
    director
  32. 2011-11-30
    ➕
    SENIOR, Helen Alice appointed
    director
  33. 2010-06-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  34. 2010-01-29
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    RINGER, Simon David appointed
    director
  35. 2009-09-25
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As BRIDGES SP FUND (GENERAL PARTNER) LIMITED
  36. 2009-09-25
    ➕
    GIDDENS, Michele Caroline appointed
    director
  37. 2009-09-25
    ➕
    MAW, John Rory Hamilton appointed
    director
  38. 2009-09-25
    ➕
    NEWBOROUGH, Philip William appointed
    director

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

56/100
Strong succession signal

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

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.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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.

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Bridges Fund Management Limited
Corporate parent
🏛️
Bridges Ventures Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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BRIDGES SP FUND (GENERAL PARTNER) LIMITED
This company · 07030469

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Bridges Ventures Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
Bridges Fund Management Limited
Corporate entity
——sig. influencesignificant influence01/03/2017

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.

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6 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
Incorporated2009-09-25
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC66300 — Fund management activities

Registered office

38 Seymour Street
London
W1H 7BP

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-07
Last: 2025-09-23

Officers (2 active · 8 resigned)

RICHINGS, Paul David→
director · ~55y · appointed 2016-12-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RINGER, Simon David→
director · ~62y · appointed 2017-07-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GIDDENS, Michele Caroline→
director · ~41y · appointed 2009-09-25 · resigned 2011-11-30
Resigned
GLENNON, Millie Catherine→
director · ~49y · appointed 2012-02-09 · resigned 2018-07-02
Resigned
MAW, John Rory Hamilton→
director · ~62y · appointed 2009-09-25 · resigned 2011-11-30
Resigned
MORRISON, Stephen James→
director · ~56y · appointed 2017-07-19 · resigned 2020-08-20
Resigned
NEWBOROUGH, Philip William→
director · ~64y · appointed 2009-09-25 · resigned 2011-11-30
Resigned
RICHINGS, Paul David→
director · ~55y · appointed 2016-12-19 · resigned 2016-12-19
Resigned
RINGER, Simon David→
director · ~62y · appointed 2010-01-29 · resigned 2011-11-30
Resigned
SENIOR, Helen Alice→
director · ~59y · appointed 2011-11-30 · resigned 2016-12-19
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property28/06/201325/11/2024
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Deed of assignment1 property18/06/201004/07/2013

Recent filings (66 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-23
dissolution-voluntary-strike-off-suspended
dissolution · SOAS(A)
2025-02-11
gazette-notice-voluntary
gazette · GAZ1(A)
2024-12-31
dissolution-application-strike-off-company
dissolution · DS01
2024-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-12
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-11-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-02-03