ANSTEY JAMES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07192226 · ltd · incorporated 2010-03-17
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other education n.e.c.
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
47 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-12-312024-12-31
Average employees200300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2025-09-11
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  3. 2024-10-01
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  4. 2024-09-30
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    accounts · AA01
  5. 2024-04-09
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2024-04-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2023-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-07-01
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  9. 2021-06-03
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  10. 2020-12-07
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  11. 2019-12-02
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  12. 2018-12-19
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  13. 2018-03-21
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  14. 2018-03-21
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  15. 2017-09-01
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-07-21
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    CAINE, Steven Paul appointed
    director
  17. 2016-07-21
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    FAIREY, Peter Graham appointed
    director
  18. 2016-07-21
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    HEDGES, James George resigned
    director
  19. 2011-04-15
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    GRAHAM, Alan Murray appointed
    director
  20. 2010-03-17
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    Company incorporated
    As ANSTEY JAMES LIMITED
  21. 2010-03-17
    ➕
    HEDGES, James George appointed
    director
  22. 2010-03-17
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    STEPHENS, Graham Robertson appointed
    director
  23. 2010-03-17
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    STEPHENS, Graham Robertson resigned
    director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Alan Murray Graham
Individual · British · DOB 06/1947 · age 79
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control21/07/2016

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
Incorporated2010-03-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85590 — Other education n.e.c.

Registered office

11 Oak Way Lufton Business Park
Yeovil
Somerset
BA22 8HS

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last: 2026-03-17

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

CAINE, Steven Paul→
director · ~54y · appointed 2016-07-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FAIREY, Peter Graham→
director · ~44y · appointed 2016-07-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GRAHAM, Alan Murray→
director · ~79y · appointed 2011-04-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEDGES, James George→
director · ~73y · appointed 2010-03-17 · resigned 2016-07-21
Resigned
STEPHENS, Graham Robertson→
director · ~76y · appointed 2010-03-17 · resigned 2010-03-17
Resigned

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Recent filings (47 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-01
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-09
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-04-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-15