1ST DEFENCE SERVICES & TRAINING LTD

🌿Early-stageactive
15084070 · ltd · incorporated 2023-08-21
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 Aug 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
62/100
Worth a look
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What this business does
Primary activity: Technical and vocational secondary education
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 62/100 (worth a look), bankability 70/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Resolve: No active directors on record. Company is active but has no current directors in the register. This is unusual and should be investigated. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

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
1 officers (0 active, 1 linked, 1 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
11 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
62/100Worth a look
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Mixed signal. Worth opening the full target workup before deciding to pursue.

Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
50
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
59
Some moderate concerns — review flags.
Signal strength
90
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£0Aug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Average employees100-100

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
2
filings
  • 1 officers
  • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • 1 officers
  • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • 1 officers
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (12 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-16
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2026-05-15
    HOSSAIN, Kazi Moktadir resigned
    director
  3. 2026-04-22
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-06-25
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2025-04-22
    ✏️
    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  6. 2025-01-18
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-07-07
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2024-05-01
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2023-09-16
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2023-08-21
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As 1ST DEFENCE SERVICES & TRAINING LTD
  11. 2023-08-21
    HOSSAIN, Kazi Moktadir appointed
    director
  12. 2023-08-21
    📄
    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

55/100
Moderate — manageable with handover

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

FACTORS
  • +Young company: Only 2.7 years old — management layer unlikely to be developed.

Succession & seller-readiness

30/100
Weak signal

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

Red flags

1 high · 1 med ·
No active directors on record
high

Company is active but has no current directors in the register. This is unusual and should be investigated.

Name changed recently
medium

Name changes can be benign (rebrand) but can also precede distress, phoenix activity, or buyer concealment.

Evidence: 2025-04-22: certificate-change-of-name-company

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Kazi Moktadir Hossain
Individual · British · DOB 06/1989 · age 37
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control21/08/2023

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
Incorporated2023-08-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85320 — Technical and vocational secondary education

Registered office

376 High Road High Road
London
N17 9HY
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-03
Last: 2025-08-20

Officers (0 active · 1 resigned)

HOSSAIN, Kazi Moktadir
director · ~37y · appointed 2023-08-21 · resigned 2026-05-15
Resigned

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Recent filings (11 total)

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-05-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-29
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-25
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2025-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-01-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-28
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-07-07
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-05-01
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-09-16
incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC
2023-08-21