B2B CONTRACTING SERVICES LTD.

🌳Matureactive

09962008 · ltd · incorporated 2016-01-21

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 6.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 38210

Sector: Water supply & waste

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 6.3y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 6.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

25 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Average employees	5	500

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-11-17
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accounts · AA
2024-10-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-02-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-01
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JAROCHOWICZ, Monika Ewa appointed
director
2020-05-01
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officers · CH01
2020-05-01
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-02-29
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mortgage · MR01
2020-02-28
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2020-01-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-02-10
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officers · TM02
2019-01-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-01-28
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CLARK, Pamela resigned
secretary
2017-10-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2017-05-24
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2016-01-21
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Company incorporated
As B2B CONTRACTING SERVICES LTD.
2016-01-21
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CLARK, James Henry appointed
director
2016-01-21
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CLARK, Nicholas James appointed
director
2016-01-21
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DUNN, Jonathan appointed
director
2016-01-21
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CLARK, Pamela appointed
secretary
2016-01-21
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incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

63/100

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 age: Director aged approximately 83 — 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 83 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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr James Henry Clark Individual · British · DOB 11/1943 · age 83	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest	06/04/2016
Mr Nicholas James Clark Individual · British · DOB 11/1970 · age 56	—	—	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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BIRKETT PROJECTS LTD→ 16466718 · est 2025 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
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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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2016-01-21

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC38210 — SIC 38210

Registered office

11 Ridley Place

Newcastle

NE1 8JQ

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-29

Last: 2025-11-15

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

CLARK, James Henry→

director · ~83y · appointed 2016-01-21

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CLARK, Nicholas James→

director · ~56y · appointed 2016-01-21

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Active

DUNN, Jonathan→

director · ~52y · appointed 2016-01-21

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Active

JAROCHOWICZ, Monika Ewa→

director · ~43y · appointed 2020-05-01

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Active

CLARK, Pamela→

secretary · appointed 2016-01-21 · resigned 2018-01-28

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	A registered charge	—	28/02/2020	—

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