BAINES ESTATES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

09652585 · ltd · incorporated 2015-06-23

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

£1.05M

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01500

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -59% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

4 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

27 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £1,048,510

Cash draining

Cash down 59% YoY

Cash YoY

-59%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£103k

↓ 59% YoY

Net Worth

£1.0m

↑ 15% YoY

Current Assets

£677k

↑ 12% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	£1.22M	£1.07M
Current assets	£676.6k	£606.3k
Cash	£102.9k	£248.6k
Debtors	£443.7k	£227.7k
Net assets	£1.05M	£909.6k

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

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1 signal 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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2026-01-23
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2025-04-30
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2024-04-15
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2023-03-23
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2022-02-11
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2021-04-23
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2020-04-16
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2019-02-04
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2018-04-04
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2017-06-27
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2017-06-27
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2016-12-07
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2016-08-11
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2016-07-07
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2015-06-23
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Company incorporated
As BAINES ESTATES LIMITED
2015-06-23
➕
BAINES, George appointed
director
2015-06-23
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BAINES, Harry Thomas David appointed
director
2015-06-23
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BAINES, Jack Henry Richard appointed
director
2015-06-23
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BAINES, Melanie 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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "BAINES" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

4 active beneficial owners · fragmented

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Harry Thomas David Baines Individual · British · DOB 11/1995 · age 31	50–75%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting	06/04/2016
Mr George Baines Individual · British · DOB 02/1953 · age 73	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mrs Melanie Baines Individual · British · DOB 02/1960 · age 66	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016
Mr Jack Henry Richard Baines Individual · British · DOB 03/1994 · age 32	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2015-06-23

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Lodge Farm

Carlton Scroop

Grantham

Lincolnshire

NG32 3AZ

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-07

Last: 2025-06-23

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

BAINES, George→

director · ~73y · appointed 2015-06-23

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BAINES, Harry Thomas David→

director · ~31y · appointed 2015-06-23

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Active

BAINES, Jack Henry Richard→

director · ~32y · appointed 2015-06-23

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Active

BAINES, Melanie→

director · ~66y · appointed 2015-06-23

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