BEDSTONE EDUCATIONAL LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive

10438437 · ltd · incorporated 2016-10-20

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 8.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

£2.09M

year to Aug 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

73/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Primary education

Sector: Education

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

85310General secondary education

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 73/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (63/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 8.8y

75/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 8.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
· Not currently profitable — coverage conversation is a harder sell.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

9 officers (3 active, 9 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

53 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

73/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Some acquirability indicators.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Loss-making

Loss before tax £873,334

Turnover YoY

+4%

Year on year

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	2024-08-31	2023-08-31
Turnover	£2.09M	£2.01M
Gross profit	£503.6k	£343.5k
Profit before tax	£-873.3k	£-1.18M
Average employees	6600	6700

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand

2025-05-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-04
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-08-31
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HAN, Liwei resigned
director
2024-01-29
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-08-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-23
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BREWER, Michael resigned
director
2022-09-23
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-08-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-23
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2021-02-05
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HAN, Liwei appointed
director
2021-02-05
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-01-27
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-01-20
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TASKER, Robert Stuart appointed
director
2020-09-23
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-09-21
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BLYTH, Henry Stewart resigned
director
2020-09-21
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BREWER, Michael appointed
director
2020-09-21
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-08-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-07-28
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-06-19
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2020-06-19
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-02-19
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-02-16
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BLYTH, Henry Stewart appointed
director
2020-02-04
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-01-22
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LIN, Xuyan appointed
director
2020-01-22
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WANG, Jing appointed
director
2020-01-22
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NEWTON, Paul Marcus resigned
director
2020-01-22
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WANG, Sijia resigned
director
2020-01-22
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YIN, Jie resigned
director
2017-10-20
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YIN, Jie appointed
director
2017-09-06
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Santander UK PLC
2016-12-13
➕
NEWTON, Paul Marcus appointed
director
2016-10-20
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Company incorporated
As BEDSTONE EDUCATIONAL LIMITED
2016-10-20
➕
WANG, Sijia appointed
director

Owner dependency

50/100

Moderate — manageable with handover

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

Succession & seller-readiness

30/100

Weak signal

Limited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.

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 · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Ms Xuyan Lin Individual · Chinese · DOB 02/1972 · age 54	—	75–100%	75-100% voting	22/01/2020

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Bedstone Educational Holding Limitedceased 22/01/2020· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting
Ms Sijia Wangceased 01/08/2017· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control · significant influence · trust interest · firm interest

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2016-10-20

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC85200 — Primary education

Registered office

Bedstone College

Bucknell

Shropshire

SY7 0BG

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-08-31

Last made up to: 2024-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-28

Last: 2026-01-14

Officers (3 active · 6 resigned)

LIN, Xuyan→

director · ~54y · appointed 2020-01-22

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

TASKER, Robert Stuart→

director · ~47y · appointed 2021-01-20

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Active

WANG, Jing→

director · ~49y · appointed 2020-01-22

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BLYTH, Henry Stewart→

director · ~70y · appointed 2020-02-16 · resigned 2020-09-21

Resigned

BREWER, Michael→

director · ~45y · appointed 2020-09-21 · resigned 2022-09-23

Resigned

HAN, Liwei→

director · ~63y · appointed 2021-02-05 · resigned 2024-08-31

Resigned

NEWTON, Paul Marcus→

director · ~71y · appointed 2016-12-13 · resigned 2020-01-22

Resigned

WANG, Sijia→

director · ~44y · appointed 2016-10-20 · resigned 2020-01-22

Resigned

YIN, Jie→

director · ~43y · appointed 2017-10-20 · resigned 2020-01-22

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Santander Santander UK PLC	A registered charge	—	06/09/2017	—

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Recent filings (53 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-02-02

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2025-05-28

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-01-27

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2024-12-20

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2024-09-04

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-01-29

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2024-01-29

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-08-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-01-19

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2022-09-23

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2022-08-25

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-03-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2021-10-20

change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened

accounts · AA01

2021-03-23

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-03-03