DUNLOY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP

🌳Matureactive
NI605953 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2011-01-28
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 13.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Educational support services
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 13.4y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 13.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
41 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees300300

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 (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-06-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2021-06-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2021-03-31
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    DOWDS, John appointed
    director
  9. 2021-03-31
    ➖
    DOOEY, Catriona resigned
    secretary
  10. 2021-03-31
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  11. 2021-03-31
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  12. 2020-12-23
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  13. 2020-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-11-07
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    dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
  15. 2020-10-20
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  16. 2019-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-10-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2012-12-31
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
  20. 2011-01-28
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    Company incorporated
    As DUNLOY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP
  21. 2011-01-28
    ➕
    MCCAMPHILL, Jonathan Hugh appointed
    director
  22. 2011-01-28
    ➕
    MCLAUGHLIN, John Roncalli appointed
    director
  23. 2011-01-28
    ➕
    DOOEY, Catriona appointed
    secretary

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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
Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption
Incorporated2011-01-28
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC85600 — Educational support services

Registered office

17 Bridge Road
Dunloy
Ballymena
County Antrim
BT44 9AN

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-11
Last: 2026-02-25

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

DOWDS, John→
director · ~70y · appointed 2021-03-31
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Active
MCCAMPHILL, Jonathan Hugh→
director · ~46y · appointed 2011-01-28
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Active
MCLAUGHLIN, John Roncalli→
director · ~61y · appointed 2011-01-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DOOEY, Catriona→
secretary · appointed 2011-01-28 · resigned 2021-03-31
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Debenture2 properties31/12/2012—
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Recent filings (41 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-06-10
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-06-10
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-03-31
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-31