GARVALD EDINBURGH

🌳Matureactive

SC060926 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1976-10-15

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 44.5y 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 education n.e.c.

Sector: Education

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). 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 44.5y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 44.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 28/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

62 officers (9 active, 62 linked, 54 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

216 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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

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
Average employees	152	14900

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (125 events)Click to expand

2026-03-11
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officers · AP01
2026-01-23
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SCHOFIELD, Anthony appointed
director
2025-12-16
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accounts · AA
2025-08-25
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officers · AP01
2025-08-19
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CAMPBELL, Susan appointed
director
2025-08-06
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RAJGOPAUL, Hannah Rosaleen appointed
director
2025-08-06
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officers · AP01
2025-06-11
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officers · TM01
2025-06-05
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WALLEY, Robert Mclean resigned
director
2025-05-22
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-05-10
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D'ATH, Callum Macdougall appointed
director
2025-03-03
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-03-03
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-02-20
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MILLEN, Catherine Dianne, Dr resigned
director
2025-02-20
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STEWART, Bob resigned
director
2024-12-10
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officers · TM01
2024-12-10
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-12-10
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-12-09
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accounts · AA
2024-12-05
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NAUMANN, Laurie Martin resigned
director
2024-12-05
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RITCHIE, Tiffany resigned
director
2024-12-05
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SWIFT, Alan resigned
director
2024-08-29
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officers · AP01
2024-08-29
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officers · AP01
2024-08-22
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BROWN, Lucy Jane appointed
director
2024-08-22
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CAMPBELL, William Ross appointed
director
2023-11-21
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-11-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-09
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MACLACHLAN, Graham William resigned
director
2023-02-20
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officers · AP01
2023-02-15
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GOODFELLOW, Bryan David appointed
director
2022-12-12
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-12-05
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officers · CH03
2022-12-05
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-11-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-28
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BENNET, Nicola resigned
director
2022-05-31
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CLEMENSON, Lesley Anne resigned
director
2022-02-17
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MILLEN, Catherine Dianne, Dr appointed
director
2021-08-19
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RITCHIE, Tiffany appointed
director
2021-07-01
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O'SULLIVAN, Anthony John, Doctor resigned
director
2020-11-26
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SMITH, Marion resigned
director
2020-10-22
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MCDONALD, Sandra Denise resigned
director
2019-10-03
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HACKLAND, Alastair Forbes appointed
director
2019-05-23
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CURRIE, David resigned
director
2019-02-28
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CLEMENSON, Lesley Anne appointed
director
2019-02-28
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STEWART, Bob appointed
director
2018-06-28
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MCDONALD, Sandra Denise appointed
director
2018-05-24
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MACLACHLAN, Graham William appointed
director
2017-09-30
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SHERRATT, James Malarky resigned
director
2017-06-13
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O'SULLIVAN, Anthony John, Doctor appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 125 events

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-8 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

🔒Co-director network graph

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1976-10-15

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC85590 — Other education n.e.c.

Registered office

454/1 Head Office

454/1 Gorgie Road

Edinburgh

EH11 2RN

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-05

Last: 2026-02-19