ASCOT BRIDGING FINANCE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07664649 · ltd · incorporated 2011-06-10
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 8.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 8.9y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
58 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
75
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
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£597k£1.2m£1.8m£2.4m£3.0mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£2.97M
Current assets£2.98M
Net assets£413.7k
Average employees0

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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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 officers
Last 180 days
7
filings
  • 3 officers
  • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-21
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  2. 2026-02-03
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  3. 2026-02-03
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  4. 2026-02-03
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2026-02-03
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  6. 2025-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2025-04-02
    GIBSON, Alison appointed
    director
  8. 2025-04-01
    MCGUINNESS, Daniel Joseph appointed
    director
  9. 2025-04-01
    GIBSON, Alison Deborah resigned
    director
  10. 2024-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  12. 2022-12-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-03-17
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2021-03-17
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2020-11-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2020-11-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  18. 2020-11-11
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  19. 2020-06-25
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  20. 2020-06-23
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Global Ascot Bridging LTD
  21. 2020-06-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  22. 2020-06-10
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  23. 2017-06-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Global Ascot Bridging Limited
  24. 2016-12-01
    BROOM, Ursula Karen appointed
    secretary
  25. 2011-06-10
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ASCOT BRIDGING FINANCE LIMITED
  26. 2011-06-10
    GIBSON, Kevin David appointed
    director
  27. 2011-06-10
    GIBSON, Alison Deborah appointed
    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
  • +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

63/100
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.
  • 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 Kevin David Gibson
Individual · British · DOB 08/1981 · age 45
5075%
50–75%50-75% shares · 50-75% voting10/06/2017
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Alison Deborah Gibsonceased 01/04/2025· 25-50% shares

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2011-06-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64999 — Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified

Registered office

8 Webster Court
Carina Park
Warrington
Cheshire
WA5 8WD
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-18
Last: 2025-11-04

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

BROOM, Ursula Karen
secretary · appointed 2016-12-01
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Active
GIBSON, Alison
director · ~67y · appointed 2025-04-02
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Active
GIBSON, Kevin David
director · ~45y · appointed 2011-06-10
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Active
MCGUINNESS, Daniel Joseph
director · ~53y · appointed 2025-04-01
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Active
GIBSON, Alison Deborah
director · ~67y · appointed 2011-06-10 · resigned 2025-04-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Global Ascot Bridging
Global Ascot Bridging LTD
A registered charge23/06/2020
outstanding
Global Ascot Bridging
Global Ascot Bridging Limited
A registered charge4 properties26/06/2017
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Recent filings (58 total)

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-03
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2026-02-03
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-02-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-02-03
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-02-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-12-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-06