ASHFORD NURSERY SCHOOLS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
08880591 · ltd · incorporated 2014-02-06
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 11.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Pre-primary education
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 85). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 11.7y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
35 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£0Aug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Average employees800800

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-05-04
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2021-05-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-07-30
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  9. 2020-05-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-05-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-02-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2017-03-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2017-03-01
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  15. 2017-02-24
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  16. 2017-02-07
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  17. 2017-02-06
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  18. 2017-01-23
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  19. 2016-12-23
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    Charge satisfied #1
  20. 2014-10-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  21. 2014-02-06
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    Company incorporated
    As ASHFORD NURSERY SCHOOLS LIMITED
  22. 2014-02-06
    ➕
    HUNTER, Robert appointed
    director
  23. 2014-02-06
    ➕
    WEBB, Valerie Sylvia appointed
    director

Owner dependency

78/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 12 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 85 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 12 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Valerie Sylvia Webb
Individual · British · DOB 08/1941 · age 85
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Robert Hunter
Individual · British · DOB 04/1959 · age 67
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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

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8 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
Incorporated2014-02-06
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85100 — Pre-primary education

Registered office

43 Albert Road
Ashford
Kent
TN24 8NU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-20
Last: 2026-02-06

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

HUNTER, Robert→
director · ~67y · appointed 2014-02-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WEBB, Valerie Sylvia→
director · ~85y · appointed 2014-02-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property24/02/2017—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property06/02/2017—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property23/01/2017—
satisfied
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property22/10/201423/12/2016
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Recent filings (35 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-31
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-05-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-22
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2020-07-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-20