ALTERATION SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
09833346 · ltd · incorporated 2015-10-20
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
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Artistic creation
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 6 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
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.

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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees4400

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 gazette
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-21
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  2. 2026-02-06
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  3. 2026-01-06
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  4. 2025-11-11
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2025-06-15
    ➖
    BRIXTON, David Anthony resigned
    director
  6. 2024-10-11
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  7. 2024-09-27
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-09-27
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-12-15
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-09-10
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2021-09-10
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2021-07-23
    ➕
    ICKE, Russell James Marshall appointed
    director
  13. 2021-07-23
    ➖
    SMITH, John resigned
    director
  14. 2021-07-22
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2020-09-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-09-12
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-09-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-07-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2017-01-14
    📄
    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  20. 2015-10-20
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ALTERATION SERVICES LIMITED
  21. 2015-10-20
    ➕
    TOWNEND, Bruce Cosmo Vincent appointed
    director
  22. 2015-10-20
    ➕
    WATTS, Paul Jonathan appointed
    director
  23. 2015-10-20
    ➕
    BRIXTON, David Anthony appointed
    director
  24. 2015-10-20
    ➕
    MCCOY-PAGE, Timothy Mark Edward appointed
    director
  25. 2015-10-20
    ➖
    MCCOY-PAGE, Timothy Mark Edward resigned
    director
  26. 2015-10-20
    ➕
    SMITH, John appointed
    director

Owner dependency

58/100
Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

45/100
Moderate signal

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • 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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
Quarry Holdings London Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
🏛️
The Whitehouse Post Productions Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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ALTERATION SERVICES LIMITED
This company · 09833346

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Quarry Holdings London Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
The Whitehouse Post Productions Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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6 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
Incorporated2015-10-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC90030 — Artistic creation

Registered office

6th Floor Charlotte Building
17 Gresse Street
London
W1T 1QL
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-02
Last: 2025-10-19

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

ICKE, Russell James Marshall→
director · ~60y · appointed 2021-07-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TOWNEND, Bruce Cosmo Vincent→
director · ~57y · appointed 2015-10-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WATTS, Paul Jonathan→
director · ~58y · appointed 2015-10-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIXTON, David Anthony→
director · ~61y · appointed 2015-10-20 · resigned 2025-06-15
Resigned
MCCOY-PAGE, Timothy Mark Edward→
director · ~62y · appointed 2015-10-20 · resigned 2015-10-20
Resigned
SMITH, John→
director · ~67y · appointed 2015-10-20 · resigned 2021-07-23
Resigned

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Recent filings (35 total)

gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2026-02-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-20
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-02-06
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2026-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-10-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-24
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-09-10
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-09-10