NORTH EAST OF SCOTLAND MUSIC SCHOOL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC058254 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1975-07-21

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 29.1y 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: General secondary education

Sector: Education

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

85410Post-secondary non-tertiary education
85520Cultural education

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 29.1y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 29.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 38/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: low (49/100)

Sparse data coverage. Treat AI-generated outputs as preliminary. Manual diligence essential.

Company profile

address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

No iXBRL financials extracted

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

47 officers (11 active, 47 linked, 36 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

164 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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.

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (89 events)Click to expand

2026-01-15
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2025-12-01
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2025-11-24
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JAMIESON, William resigned
director
2025-11-24
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officers · TM01
2025-06-30
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2025-03-07
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accounts · AA
2024-11-25
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BIRSE, Andrew appointed
director
2024-11-25
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GLENARTHUR DL, Simon, Lord appointed
director
2024-11-25
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BUCHAN, Derek resigned
director
2024-11-19
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officers · TM01
2024-10-01
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PARKINSON, Ann Delyth resigned
director
2024-03-20
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accounts · AA
2024-03-08
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2024-02-29
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2023-12-04
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HALL, Kenneth Macleod appointed
secretary
2023-12-04
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HALL, Kenneth Macleod appointed
director
2023-12-04
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PAUL, Samuel James Irvine appointed
director
2023-12-04
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HALL, Janette resigned
secretary
2023-12-04
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BRADFORD, Nicola Barbara resigned
director
2023-12-04
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HALL, Janette resigned
director
2023-12-04
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JAMIESON, William appointed
director
2023-04-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-11
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2022-07-11
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2022-07-11
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officers · TM02
2021-11-29
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BUCHAN, Derek resigned
secretary
2021-11-29
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HALL, Janette appointed
secretary
2021-03-08
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HALL, Janette appointed
director
2021-03-08
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PARFITT, Peter Julian resigned
director
2020-02-24
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BUCHAN, Derek appointed
secretary
2020-02-24
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PARKINSON, Ann Delyth resigned
secretary
2019-11-25
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COLEMAN, Richard John, Dr appointed
director
2019-11-25
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SIMPSON, Morage Flora Campbell resigned
director
2019-11-25
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SMITH, David John, Professor resigned
director
2017-11-20
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MCARTHUR, Ian Strachan resigned
director
2017-11-20
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PARFITT, Peter Julian appointed
director
2017-11-20
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SIMPSON, Morage Flora Campbell appointed
director
2017-11-20
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TUNSTALL, Anne Norman resigned
director
2015-11-23
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REYNOLDS, John Michael resigned
director
2015-11-23
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SHIRREFFS, Jennifer Anne resigned
director
2014-03-26
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ROBERTSON, Ian Mortimer, Major resigned
director
2013-11-19
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JONES, Neil Inigo resigned
director

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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-10 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
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

Incorporated1975-07-21

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC85310 — General secondary education

Registered office

21 Huntly Street

Aberdeen

AB10 1TJ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-14

Last: 2025-06-30