BAMCO THIRTY FOUR LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07104833 · ltd · incorporated 2009-12-15
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 15.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
Sector: Human health & social work
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). 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 (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 15.9y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 15.9 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: 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
58 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 29 | 2900 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-11-22📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2023-11-22📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-11-22📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-11-22📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2022-12-20📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-12-20📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-12-20📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2022-12-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-10📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2019-12-10📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2019-12-10📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2019-12-10📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-11-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2010-06-30🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Santander UK PLC
- 2010-02-01➕ALDERSON, Barbara appointeddirector
- 2010-02-01➕ALDERSON, Peter Thomas appointeddirector
- 2010-02-01➖MACKENOW, Brian Anthony resignedsecretary
- 2010-02-01➖MACKENOW, Brian Anthony resigneddirector
- 2009-12-15🏢Company incorporatedAs BAMCO THIRTY FOUR LIMITED
- 2009-12-15➕MACKENOW, Brian Anthony appointedsecretary
- 2009-12-15➕MACKENOW, Brian Anthony appointeddirector
Owner dependency
91/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. 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 16 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Group structure
Alderson Care Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.
🏛️ultimate parent
Alderson Care Group Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
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BAMCO THIRTY FOUR LIMITED
This company · 07104833
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alderson Care Group Limited Corporate entity | 75–100% | 75–100% | 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting | 11/12/2017 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mr Peter Thomas Aldersonceased 11/12/2017· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
- Mr Barbara Aldersonceased 11/12/2017· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-12-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC87300 — Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
Registered office
Woodlands
26 Station Road
Beamish
DH9 0QU
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-29
Last: 2025-12-15
Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)
ALDERSON, Barbara→
Activedirector · ~67y · appointed 2010-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ALDERSON, Peter Thomas→
Activedirector · ~68y · appointed 2010-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
MACKENOW, Brian Anthony→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2009-12-15 · resigned 2010-02-01
MACKENOW, Brian Anthony→
Resigneddirector · ~78y · appointed 2009-12-15 · resigned 2010-02-01
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Santander Santander UK PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 30/06/2010 | — |
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Recent filings (58 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-14
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2023-11-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-22
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-11-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-20
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-12-20
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-12-20
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-14