A.W.O. RECYCLING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
08087743 · ltd · incorporated 2012-05-29
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 13.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38210
Sector: Water supply & waste
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 39000SIC 39000
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 13.7y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 13.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 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
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
33 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
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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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees700900

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-04
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-10
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  4. 2024-05-10
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  5. 2023-11-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-08-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-10-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-01-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-12-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-11-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-05-21
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-09-04
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-06-27
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2015-01-02
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2012-09-27
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  18. 2012-07-24
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    BEDFORD, Julia appointed
    director
  19. 2012-07-24
    ➕
    BEDFORD, Stuart William appointed
    director
  20. 2012-05-29
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    Company incorporated
    As A.W.O. RECYCLING LIMITED
  21. 2012-05-29
    ➕
    BEDFORD, Daniel Oliver appointed
    director
  22. 2012-05-29
    ➕
    BEDFORD, Thomas Frederick appointed
    director

Owner dependency

63/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — 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 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 14 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.)

Group structure

Awo Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Awo Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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A.W.O. RECYCLING LIMITED
This company · 08087743

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
Awo Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control26/01/2018

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
Incorporated2012-05-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC38210 — SIC 38210

Registered office

Bury Lane Farm
Ramsey Heights
Huntingdon
Cambs.
PE26 2RU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-03
Last: 2025-05-20

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

BEDFORD, Daniel Oliver→
director · ~54y · appointed 2012-05-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BEDFORD, Julia→
director · ~76y · appointed 2012-07-24
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Active
BEDFORD, Stuart William→
director · ~78y · appointed 2012-07-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BEDFORD, Thomas Frederick→
director · ~51y · appointed 2012-05-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Debenture1 property27/09/2012—
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Recent filings (33 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-20
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-05-10
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2024-05-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-11