ADVANCE SKILLS TRAINING LTD

💤Zombieactive
08442878 · ltd · incorporated 2013-03-13
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒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
74/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Technical and vocational secondary education
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 74/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (1 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
42 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
74/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
55
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
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 · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-10
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  2. 2025-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-12-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-09-02
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  9. 2020-09-02
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    officers · TM01
  10. 2020-09-02
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  11. 2020-09-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2020-09-01
    ➕
    GILL, Gurmeet Singh appointed
    director
  13. 2020-09-01
    ➖
    BHATTI, Salinder resigned
    director
  14. 2019-12-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2017-07-12
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    BHATTI, Salinder appointed
    director
  18. 2017-07-12
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    GILL, Balwinder Kaur resigned
    director
  19. 2017-07-12
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  20. 2017-07-12
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  21. 2015-10-05
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    GILL, Balwinder Kaur resigned
    secretary
  22. 2015-08-05
    ➕
    GILL, Balwinder Kaur appointed
    director
  23. 2015-08-05
    ➖
    GILL, Gurmeet Singh resigned
    director
  24. 2013-03-13
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    Company incorporated
    As ADVANCE SKILLS TRAINING LTD
  25. 2013-03-13
    ➕
    GILL, Balwinder Kaur appointed
    secretary
  26. 2013-03-13
    ➕
    GILL, Gurmeet Singh appointed
    director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.

Succession & seller-readiness

45/100
Moderate signal

Some succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.

SIGNALS
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.

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 Gurmeet Singh Gill
Individual · British · DOB 07/1972 · age 54
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control01/09/2020
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mrs Salinder Bhatticeased 01/09/2020· significant influence
  • Mrs Balwinder Kaur Gillceased 12/07/2017· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control

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
Incorporated2013-03-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85320 — Technical and vocational secondary education

Registered office

Unit 15 Heston Industrial Mall
Church Road
Hounslow
TW5 0LD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-25
Last: 2026-03-11

Officers (1 active · 4 resigned)

GILL, Gurmeet Singh→
director · ~54y · appointed 2020-09-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GILL, Balwinder Kaur→
secretary · appointed 2013-03-13 · resigned 2015-10-05
Resigned
BHATTI, Salinder→
director · ~58y · appointed 2017-07-12 · resigned 2020-09-01
Resigned
GILL, Balwinder Kaur→
director · ~62y · appointed 2015-08-05 · resigned 2017-07-12
Resigned
GILL, Gurmeet Singh→
director · ~54y · appointed 2013-03-13 · resigned 2015-08-05
Resigned

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Recent filings (42 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-28
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-09-02
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-09-02