VAUGHAN ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED

📈Growthactive

NI003617 · ltd · incorporated 1955-12-14

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 10.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other engineering activities

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), 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 (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 10.3y

80/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 10.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

11 officers (7 active, 11 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

166 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.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £573,976

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Profit before tax	£574.0k	£393.1k
Average employees	12000	11800

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2025-12-15
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accounts · AA
2024-12-18
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accounts · AA
2024-11-27
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officers · TM01
2024-09-30
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PATTERSON, David William resigned
director
2023-12-22
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accounts · AA
2023-07-11
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officers · TM01
2023-06-30
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VAUGHAN, Albert John resigned
director
2022-12-19
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accounts · AA
2022-04-27
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officers · AP01
2022-04-27
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officers · AP01
2022-04-27
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officers · AP01
2022-04-14
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BUCHANAN, Stephen John appointed
director
2022-04-14
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VAUGHAN, Andrew William appointed
director
2022-04-14
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VAUGHAN, Stuart James appointed
director
2022-01-10
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accounts · AA
2021-02-16
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accounts · AA
2019-12-17
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accounts · AA
2019-11-27
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mortgage · MR01
2019-11-26
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mortgage · MR04
2019-11-26
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Charge satisfied #1
2019-11-25
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Ulster Bank Limited
2018-09-13
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accounts · AA
2017-12-29
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2016-02-01
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Northern Bank Limited
2014-02-15
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VAUGHAN, James Mark resigned
director
2008-01-01
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PATTERSON, David William appointed
director
2004-09-30
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HADDOW, James resigned
director
1955-12-14
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Company incorporated
As VAUGHAN ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED

Owner dependency

78/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "VAUGHAN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

20/100

No succession signal

No meaningful acquirability indicators from public data.

SIGNALS

primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — VAUGHAN, Andrew William (same surname) appointed 2022-04-14. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 70 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

Vaughanengineering Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Vaughanengineering Group Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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VAUGHAN ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED

This company · NI003617

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Vaughanengineering Group Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1955-12-14

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities

Registered office

Aercon Works

556 Antrim Road

Newtownabbey

Co.Antrim

BT36 4RF

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-01

Last: 2025-12-18