BENTON FARM LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
10011896 · ltd · incorporated 2016-02-18
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 8.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£748.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01130
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). 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 8.4y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 8.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (78/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
22 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.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £748,391
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£99k
Net Worth
£748k
↑ 30% YoY
Current Assets
£719k
↑ 2.3% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £1.15M | £1.06M |
| Current assets | £718.8k | £702.6k |
| Cash | £99.2k | — |
| Debtors | £479.8k | £414.1k |
| Net assets | £748.4k | £575.9k |
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
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-01-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-02-20📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2018-02-20🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2017-11-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-11-17📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2016-02-18🏢Company incorporatedAs BENTON FARM LIMITED
- 2016-02-18➕SCALE, James appointeddirector
- 2016-02-18➕SCALE, Jonathan appointeddirector
- 2016-02-18➕SCALE, Morgan appointeddirector
- 2016-02-18📄incorporation-companyincorporation · NEWINC
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
55/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- 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
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr James Scale Individual · British · DOB 01/1961 · age 65 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 17/02/2017 |
Mr Joanthan Scale Individual · British · DOB 09/1965 · age 61 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 17/02/2017 |
Mr Morgan Scale Individual · British · DOB 12/1991 · age 35 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 17/02/2017 |
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
Incorporated2016-02-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01130 — SIC 01130
Registered office
Benton Farm
Burton
Milford Haven
SA73 1PE
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-03
Last: 2026-02-17
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
SCALE, James→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2016-02-18
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SCALE, Jonathan→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2016-02-18
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SCALE, Morgan→
Activedirector · ~35y · appointed 2016-02-18
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 20/02/2018 | — |
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Recent filings (22 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-03-07