BELL FIRE AND SECURITY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC091929 · ltd · incorporated 1985-03-01

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 28.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

£-313.7k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Electrical installation

Sector: Construction

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). 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 28.4y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 28.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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

10 officers (5 active, 10 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

11 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

113 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £313,726

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£246k

Net Worth

-£314k

Current Assets

£914k

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Total assets	£174.2k	—
Current assets	£914.5k	—
Cash	£246.4k	—
Debtors	£576.6k	—
Net assets	£-313.7k	—

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

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4 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

filing

• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand

2026-03-30
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JOHNSTON, Douglas resigned
director
2026-03-30
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-01-21
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2026-01-20
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-01-20
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-02-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-26
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officers · AP01
2023-05-31
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MCMILLAN, Alexander appointed
director
2023-01-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-01
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-08-01
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-07-21
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-07-01
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BARR, Colin appointed
director
2022-02-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-05-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-12-06
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address · AD01
2018-12-05
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2018-05-28
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CLARK, Lisa Ann appointed
director
2015-09-25
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MCNUTT, Alexander Samuel appointed
director
2015-09-25
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MCNUTT, Ann Margaret appointed
director
2015-09-25
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BELL, Jospeh Jackson resigned
secretary
2015-09-25
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BELL, Gavin resigned
director
2015-09-25
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BELL, Joseph Jackson, Mr. resigned
director
2015-09-25
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JOHNSTON, Douglas appointed
director
2015-09-08
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Charge satisfied #1
2003-02-24
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SIMMS, Graham resigned
director
1998-06-01
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BELL, Gavin appointed
director
1997-12-01
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
1985-03-01
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Company incorporated
As BELL FIRE AND SECURITY LIMITED

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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

55/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
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.)

Group structure

Bell Fire And Security Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Bell Fire And Security Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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BELL FIRE AND SECURITY LIMITED

This company · SC091929

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Bell Fire And Security Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	06/04/2016

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Alexander Samuel Mcnuttceased 06/04/2016· significant influence
Mrs Ann Margaret Mcnuttceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

Incorporated1985-03-01

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC43210 — Electrical installation

Registered office

415 Hillington Road Hillington Industrial Estate

Glasgow

G52 4BL

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-12

Last: 2025-12-29