ANGLO CHINESE SCHOOL OF LONDON LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
10204398 · ltd · incorporated 2016-05-27
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 8.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Pre-primary education
Sector: Education
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 85200Primary education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 77). 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 8.9y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
47 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.

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£0Aug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Average employees37003700

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-02-24
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  4. 2025-02-24
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    Charge satisfied #1
  5. 2024-11-28
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  6. 2024-11-12
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    WHITTINGHAM, Jacqueline Claire Louise appointed
    secretary
  7. 2024-10-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2024-10-22
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    HARRIS, Rodney appointed
    director
  9. 2024-10-22
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  10. 2024-08-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-10-28
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  12. 2023-10-25
    ➖
    ZENG, Rong, Dr resigned
    director
  13. 2023-09-12
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  14. 2023-08-30
    ➕
    ZENG, Rong, Dr appointed
    director
  15. 2023-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2023-05-04
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  17. 2022-09-07
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  18. 2022-06-13
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  19. 2022-06-13
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  20. 2022-06-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2022-02-16
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  22. 2021-12-10
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  23. 2021-06-08
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  24. 2021-05-11
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  25. 2020-10-30
    ➖
    LAING, Hamish Alexander resigned
    director
  26. 2018-03-21
    ➖
    ZENG, Rong, Dr. resigned
    director
  27. 2017-08-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  28. 2017-07-30
    ➕
    LAING, Hamish Alexander appointed
    director
  29. 2016-05-27
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ANGLO CHINESE SCHOOL OF LONDON LIMITED
  30. 2016-05-27
    ➕
    DE BURGH, Hugo William, Professor appointed
    director
  31. 2016-05-27
    ➕
    ZENG, Rong, Dr. appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

71/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Ian Michael Laing
Individual · British · DOB 12/1946 · age 80
50–75%
—50-75% shares16/11/2021
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Westminster Anglo Chinese Schools Ltdceased 16/11/2021· 25-50% shares
  • Professor Hugo William De Burghceased 20/03/2020· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated2016-05-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85100 — Pre-primary education

Registered office

Kensington Wade School
Fulham Palace Road
London
W6 9ER
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-25
Last: 2026-05-11

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

WHITTINGHAM, Jacqueline Claire Louise→
secretary · appointed 2024-11-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DE BURGH, Hugo William, Professor→
director · ~77y · appointed 2016-05-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HARRIS, Rodney→
director · ~68y · appointed 2024-10-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LAING, Hamish Alexander→
director · ~48y · appointed 2017-07-30 · resigned 2020-10-30
Resigned
ZENG, Rong, Dr→
director · ~48y · appointed 2023-08-30 · resigned 2023-10-25
Resigned
ZENG, Rong, Dr.→
director · ~48y · appointed 2016-05-27 · resigned 2018-03-21
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge—14/08/201724/02/2025

Recent filings (47 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-30
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2025-02-24
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2024-11-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-27
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-10-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-28
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-10-28
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-09-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-11
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2023-05-04