AARON GRAB AND SKIP HIRE LTD
🌳Matureactive
09712946 · ltd · incorporated 2015-07-31
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
£334.6k
book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38110
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
PursueAsset-holding vehicle with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -34% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
Data confidence
Overall: medium (79/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
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
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
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
35 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £334,576
Cash YoY
-34%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£68k
↓ 34% YoY
Net Worth
£335k
↑ 34% YoY
Current Assets
£63k
↓ 26% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £334.6k | £260.9k |
| Current assets | £63.4k | £86.0k |
| Cash | £68.0k | £103.2k |
| Debtors | £-4.6k | £-17.2k |
| Net assets | £334.6k | £249.4k |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
3
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2026-04-02📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-07-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-04-26📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2024-07-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-04-26📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2023-07-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-28📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2022-07-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-07-13📄second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-dateconfirmation-statement · RP04CS01
- 2022-07-05📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2022-04-27📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2021-08-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-04-29📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2020-09-28📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2020-07-24📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2020-04-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2015-07-31🏢Company incorporatedAs AARON GRAB AND SKIP HIRE LTD
- 2015-07-31➕SCOTTS, James Stuart appointeddirector
- 2015-07-31➕SCOTTS, Linda Ann appointeddirector
Owner dependency
86/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
- +No director turnover: Company is 11 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
61/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
Red flags
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr James Stuart Scotts Individual · British · DOB 10/1957 · age 69 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 05/07/2022 |
Linda Ann Scotts Individual · English · DOB 06/1959 · age 67 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 30/07/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2015-07-31
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC38110 — SIC 38110
Registered office
49a Fitzherbert Road
Farlington
Portsmouth
PO6 1RU
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-25
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-16
Last: 2026-04-02
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
SCOTTS, James Stuart→
Activedirector · ~69y · appointed 2015-07-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SCOTTS, Linda Ann→
Activedirector · ~67y · appointed 2015-07-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
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Recent filings (35 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-24
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-25
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-24
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-26
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-27
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2022-07-13