AFE RECRUITMENT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07582523 · ltd · incorporated 2011-03-29
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 12.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Temporary employment agency activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 12.2y

70/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 12.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
14 connected companies via shared directors
87
Filing history
71 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees19002200

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
8
filings
  • • 4 officers
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-07-01
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  2. 2026-02-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2026-02-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2026-02-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2026-02-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2026-02-12
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2026-02-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  8. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-04-19
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2023-01-12
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  13. 2023-01-09
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    HAJINICOLAS, Nicholas appointed
    director
  14. 2022-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2022-03-04
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  16. 2022-03-04
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  17. 2022-03-03
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  18. 2021-07-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  19. 2020-11-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  20. 2020-04-24
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    NICOLAS, Helen appointed
    director
  21. 2019-11-01
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    ELIA, Androulla appointed
    director
  22. 2019-09-26
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    Charge satisfied #1
  23. 2019-07-24
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
  24. 2018-03-30
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    HELEN NICOLAS ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS resigned
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2014-05-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Leumi Abl Limited
  26. 2011-09-22
    ➖
    HELEN NICOLAS ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS LTD resigned
    corporate-secretary
  27. 2011-03-29
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    Company incorporated
    As AFE RECRUITMENT LIMITED
  28. 2011-03-29
    ➕
    ELIA, Antony appointed
    director
  29. 2011-03-29
    ➕
    HELEN NICOLAS ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS appointed
    corporate-secretary
  30. 2011-03-29
    ➕
    HELEN NICOLAS ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS LTD appointed
    corporate-secretary
  31. 2011-03-29
    ➕
    JACOBS, Yomtov Eliezer appointed
    director
  32. 2011-03-29
    ➖
    JACOBS, Yomtov Eliezer resigned
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. 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

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

Group structure

Safe Properties Pb Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Safe Properties Pb Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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AFE RECRUITMENT LIMITED
This company · 07582523

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Safe Properties Pb Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control01/10/2019
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Antony Eliaceased 01/10/2019· 75-100% voting · board control
  • Androulla Eliaceased 06/04/2016· 75-100% shares

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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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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2011-03-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC78200 — Temporary employment agency activities

Registered office

1st Floor 2 Station Close
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 1TL
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-30
Last: 2026-05-16

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

ELIA, Androulla→
director · ~46y · appointed 2019-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ELIA, Antony→
director · ~55y · appointed 2011-03-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HAJINICOLAS, Nicholas→
director · ~48y · appointed 2023-01-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NICOLAS, Helen→
director · ~67y · appointed 2020-04-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HELEN NICOLAS ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2011-03-29 · resigned 2018-03-30
Resigned
HELEN NICOLAS ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS LTD→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2011-03-29 · resigned 2011-09-22
Resigned
JACOBS, Yomtov Eliezer→
director · ~56y · appointed 2011-03-29 · resigned 2011-03-29
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Security Trustee Limited
A registered charge—24/07/2019—
satisfied
Leumi Abl
Leumi Abl Limited
A registered charge1 property22/05/201426/09/2019
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Recent filings (71 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2026-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-19
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-12
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-02-12
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2026-02-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-24