A H CARPENTERS & JOINERY LTD
🏛️Establishedactive
10962297 · ltd · incorporated 2017-09-14
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
£-44.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
72/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.
Opportunity 72/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: distressed disposal / insolvency (65/100).
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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
19 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
72/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
55
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £44,095
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
-£44k
Current Assets
£83k
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £6.0k | — |
| Current assets | £82.8k | — |
| Net assets | £-44.1k | — |
| Average employees | — | -900 |
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
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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (14 events)Click to expand
- 2025-11-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-11-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-10-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-23📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2020-11-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-09-28📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2017-09-14🏢Company incorporatedAs A H CARPENTERS & JOINERY LTD
- 2017-09-14➕HOPE, Adam appointeddirector
- 2017-09-14➕HOPE-OSLER, Victoria appointeddirector
- 2017-09-14📄incorporation-companyincorporation · NEWINC
Owner dependency
63/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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.
- +No director turnover: Company is 9 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
36/100
Weak signalLimited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.
SIGNALS
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
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
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Adam Hope Individual · British · DOB 03/1981 · age 45 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 14/09/2017 |
Mrs Victoria Hope-Osler Individual · British · DOB 07/1980 · age 46 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 14/09/2017 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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| ABC LIFTS LTD→ 15961933 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
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| ABENCRAFT LIMITED→ 12313842 · est 2019 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 6y | — | — |
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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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2017-09-14
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC16230 — Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery
Registered office
Kingswood Bell Lane
Bedmond
Abbots Langley
WD5 0QS
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-27
Last: 2025-09-13
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
Active
HOPE-OSLER, Victoria→
Activedirector · ~46y · appointed 2017-09-14
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Recent filings (19 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-11-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-10-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-14
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-25