HOLCOMBE MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07077307 · ltd · incorporated 2009-11-16
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 Nov 2024
Net worth
£125.6k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 36000
Sector: Water supply & waste
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 42910SIC 42910
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 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
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
38 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
80
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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £125,616
Net assets shrinking
Down £34,212 YoY
Cash YoY
-10%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£219k
↓ 9.7% YoY
Net Worth
£126k
↓ 21% YoY
Current Assets
£222k
↓ 8.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£49k£97k£146k£194k£243kNov 2023Nov 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-11-302023-11-30
Total assets£125.9k£160.0k
Current assets£222.3k£243.1k
Cash£219.0k£242.6k
Debtors£3.3k£419
Net assets£125.6k£159.8k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-07-21
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2025-07-21
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2024-08-29
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-04-23
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    confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
  6. 2023-08-30
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-10-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-08-19
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-09-25
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-08-30
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-08-24
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  12. 2017-08-18
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  13. 2016-09-07
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    officers · AP01
  14. 2016-08-22
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-11-30
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    CATHERALL, Gillian May appointed
    director
  16. 2015-11-17
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    annual-return · AR01
  17. 2009-11-16
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    Company incorporated
    As HOLCOMBE MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED
  18. 2009-11-16
    ➕
    CATHERALL, Harold appointed
    director

Owner dependency

96/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 17 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Gillian May Catherall
Individual · British · DOB 08/1957 · age 69
25–50%
—25-50% shares16/11/2016
Mr Harold Catherall
Individual · British · DOB 12/1955 · age 71
25–50%
—25-50% shares16/11/2016

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
Incorporated2009-11-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC36000 — SIC 36000

Registered office

2 Woodhead Close
Ramsbottom
Bury
Lancashire
BL0 9YX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last: 2025-11-16

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

CATHERALL, Gillian May→
director · ~69y · appointed 2015-11-30
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Active
CATHERALL, Harold→
director · ~71y · appointed 2009-11-16
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Recent filings (38 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-15
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-07-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-07-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-29
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2024-04-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-25