TMW SECURITY SERVICES LTD

🌳Matureactive
NI044702 · ltd · incorporated 2002-11-15
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
year to Oct 2025
Net worth
£16.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other construction installation
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
56 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £16,007
Net assets shrinking
Down £22,160 YoY
Cash YoY
+29%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£39k
↑ 29% YoY
Net Worth
£16k
↓ 58% YoY
Current Assets
£65k
↑ 18% YoY
Current Liabilities
£0£13k£26k£39k£52k£65kOct 2024Oct 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Total assets£16.6k£38.9k
Current assets£65.4k£55.5k
Cash£39.1k£30.3k
Debtors£20.3k£22.4k
Net assets£16.0k£38.2k

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-14
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-08
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-06-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-06-02
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-06-28
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-05-04
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-07-14
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2015-12-22
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2015-11-30
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    annual-return · AR01
  13. 2015-02-09
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2014-11-19
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2006-01-19
    CAMPBELL, Trevor resigned
    director
  16. 2002-11-15
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    Company incorporated
    As TMW SECURITY SERVICES LTD
  17. 2002-11-15
    RICE, Patrick Daniel appointed
    secretary
  18. 2002-11-15
    NUMMY, William Robert appointed
    director
  19. 2002-11-15
    RICE, Patrick Daniel appointed
    director
  20. 2002-11-15
    CAMPBELL, Trevor appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 82 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-11-15
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC43290 — Other construction installation

Registered office

16 Latt Road
Newry
Co Down
BT35 6PB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-04
Last: 2025-05-21

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

RICE, Patrick Daniel
secretary · appointed 2002-11-15
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Active
NUMMY, William Robert
director · ~58y · appointed 2002-11-15
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Active
RICE, Patrick Daniel
director · ~82y · appointed 2002-11-15
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Active
CAMPBELL, Trevor
director · ~66y · appointed 2002-11-15 · resigned 2006-01-19
Resigned

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Recent filings (56 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2026-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-04-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-05-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-06-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-18