CHILHAM MILL FISHERIES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07512399 · ltd · incorporated 2011-02-01
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
—
year to Feb 2025
Net worth
£656.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 03120
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
PursueAsset-holding vehicle with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
Data confidence
Overall: high (81/100)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
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
4 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
44 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 · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £655,957
Cash YoY
-16%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£34k
↓ 16% YoY
Net Worth
£656k
↑ 19% YoY
Current Assets
£34k
↓ 16% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-02-28 | 2024-02-29 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £656.0k | £551.5k |
| Current assets | £33.7k | £40.0k |
| Cash | £33.7k | £40.0k |
| Net assets | £656.0k | £551.5k |
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.
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See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
9
filings
- • 4 persons-with-significant-control
- • 2 capital
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
- 2025-11-25📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2025-11-25📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2025-11-24📄capital-alter-shares-subdivisioncapital · SH02
- 2025-11-24📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2025-11-19📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-11-19📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-11-19📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-11-19📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-09-03📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2025-08-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-08-13📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AAMD
- 2025-08-13📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AAMD
- 2024-09-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-10-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-04-08📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-01-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2011-03-29➕LEADER, Jacqueline appointeddirector
- 2011-02-01🏢Company incorporatedAs CHILHAM MILL FISHERIES LIMITED
- 2011-02-01➕LEADER, Vincent William appointeddirector
Owner dependency
89/100
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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
- +No director turnover: Company is 15 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
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 63. 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 15 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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.)
Shareholders & ownership
4 active beneficial owners · fragmented| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ms Carrie Leader Individual · British · DOB 12/1995 · age 31 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 14/11/2025 |
Ms Sophie Leader Individual · British · DOB 03/1994 · age 32 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 14/11/2025 |
Mr Vincent William Leader Individual · British · DOB 10/1963 · age 63 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Jacqueline Leader Individual · British · DOB 09/1966 · age 60 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2011-02-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC03120 — SIC 03120
Registered office
10-12 Barnes High Street
London
SW13 9LW
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-15
Last: 2026-02-01
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
LEADER, Jacqueline→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2011-03-29
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LEADER, Vincent William→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2011-02-01
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Recent filings (44 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-03
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-11-25
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2025-11-25
capital-alter-shares-subdivision
capital · SH02
2025-11-24
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2025-11-24
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-11-19
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-11-19
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-19
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-19
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-09-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-13
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2025-08-13
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2025-08-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-23