AUGHINTOBER MEDICAL SERVICES LTD

🌳Matureactive

NI044550 · ltd · incorporated 2002-10-25

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£3.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Specialist medical practice activities

Sector: Human health & social work

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

55 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £3,420

Net assets shrinking

Down £2,445 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£3k

↓ 42% YoY

Current Assets

£8k

↑ 1678% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£3.4k	£5.9k
Current assets	£7.6k	£425
Net assets	£3.4k	£5.9k

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2026-03-27
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2002-10-28
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DE COURCY-WHEELER, Richard appointed
director
2002-10-25
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Company incorporated
As AUGHINTOBER MEDICAL SERVICES LTD
2002-10-25
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DE COURCY-WHEELER, Rose appointed
secretary
2002-10-25
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DE COURCY-WHEELER, Rose appointed
director
2002-10-25
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KANE, Dorothy May appointed
secretary
2002-10-25
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KANE, Dorothy May resigned
secretary

Owner dependency

91/100

Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Richard De Courcy-Wheeler Individual · British · DOB 01/1960 · age 66	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2002-10-25

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC86220 — Specialist medical practice activities

Registered office

C/O Phelan & Prescott

River Hosue

Home Avenue

Newry

BT34 2DL

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-08

Last: 2025-10-25

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

DE COURCY-WHEELER, Rose→

secretary · appointed 2002-10-25

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Active

DE COURCY-WHEELER, Richard→

director · ~66y · appointed 2002-10-28

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Active

DE COURCY-WHEELER, Rose→

director · ~67y · appointed 2002-10-25

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Active

KANE, Dorothy May→

secretary · appointed 2002-10-25 · resigned 2002-10-25

Resigned

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