FIR RIDGE CARE HOME LTD

🌿Early-stageactive
14714402 · ltd · incorporated 2023-03-08
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
72/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Residential care activities for learning difficulties, mental health and substance abuse
Sector: Human health & social work
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 87900Other residential care activities n.e.c.
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 72/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 2.6y

50/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Newest facility, 2.6 years old — likely still in initial term.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
14 connected companies via shared directors
87
Filing history
13 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
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
55
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
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
£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Gross profit£308.8k
Profit before tax£193.6k
Average employees23002500

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
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (14 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-07-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-09-18
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  4. 2023-09-13
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  5. 2023-09-08
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Unity Trust Bank PLC (Crn: 01713124)
  6. 2023-09-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Unity Trust Bank PLC (Crn: 01713124)
  7. 2023-03-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2023-03-09
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  9. 2023-03-08
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    Company incorporated
    As FIR RIDGE CARE HOME LTD
  10. 2023-03-08
    PATEL, Dipak appointed
    director
  11. 2023-03-08
    PATEL, Rajan appointed
    director
  12. 2023-03-08
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  13. 2023-03-08
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  14. 2023-03-08
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    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

66/100
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.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Red flags

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

Group structure

Ridge Care Group Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Ridge Care Group Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
FIR RIDGE CARE HOME LTD
This company · 14714402

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ridge Care Group Ltd
Corporate entity
75100%
75-100% shares08/03/2023
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Dipak Patelceased 08/03/2023· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mr Rajan Patelceased 08/03/2023· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2023-03-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC87200 — Residential care activities for learning difficulties, mental health and substance abuse

Registered office

3 Appledown Rise
Coulsdon
Surrey
CR5 2DX
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-22
Last: 2026-03-08

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

PATEL, Dipak
director · ~49y · appointed 2023-03-08
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Active
PATEL, Rajan
director · ~55y · appointed 2023-03-08
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Unity Trust Bank (Crn: 01713124)
Unity Trust Bank PLC (Crn: 01713124)
A registered charge1 property08/09/2023
outstanding
Unity Trust Bank (Crn: 01713124)
Unity Trust Bank PLC (Crn: 01713124)
A registered charge08/09/2023
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Recent filings (13 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-07-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-14
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2023-09-18
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2023-09-13
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-03-20
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-03-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-08
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-03-08
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-03-08
incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC
2023-03-08