A & F PRECISION ENGINEERING LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07560556 · ltd · incorporated 2011-03-11
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 Jun 2025
Net worth
£1.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other engineering activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -43% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 8.8y
45/100
under pressure
Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.
- · Oldest live charge is 8.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.
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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
49 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.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £1,729
Cash draining
Cash down 43% YoY
Cash YoY
-43%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£19k
↓ 43% YoY
Net Worth
£2k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£294k
↓ 3.2% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-06-30 | 2024-06-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £74.8k | £142.0k |
| Current assets | £293.5k | £303.2k |
| Cash | £19.1k | £33.7k |
| Debtors | £117.7k | £129.7k |
| Net assets | £1.7k | £1.7k |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-02-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-10-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-01📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-02-28📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-09-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-03-18📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2020-11-03📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2020-11-03📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2020-10-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-04-20📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-12-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-07-08📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2019-07-08📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2019-07-08📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2019-07-08📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2017-08-15🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2015-04-01➕ALLEN, Oliver James appointeddirector
- 2015-04-01➕ALLEN, Thomas David appointeddirector
- 2011-03-11🏢Company incorporatedAs A & F PRECISION ENGINEERING LIMITED
- 2011-03-11➕ALLEN, David John appointeddirector
Owner dependency
83/100
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
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
73/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- 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
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Thomas David Allen Individual · British · DOB 09/1984 · age 42 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 26/10/2020 |
Mr Oliver James Allen Individual · British · DOB 05/1982 · age 44 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 26/10/2020 |
David John Allen Individual · British · DOB 07/1957 · age 69 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
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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Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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7 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
Incorporated2011-03-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities
Registered office
The Cottage
87 Yarmouth Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR7 0HF
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-21
Last: 2026-03-07
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
ALLEN, David John→
Activedirector · ~69y · appointed 2011-03-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ALLEN, Oliver James→
Activedirector · ~44y · appointed 2015-04-01
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ALLEN, Thomas David→
Activedirector · ~42y · appointed 2015-04-01
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 15/08/2017 | — |
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Recent filings (49 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-03-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-03-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-11
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2020-11-03