ARTLINK CENTRAL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC109852 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1988-03-16

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.

Why now

Window closing · high confidence

Getting harder to buy cheaply — 3 signals strengthening over the last 30 days.

· Hygiene score: 70 → 90
· Opportunity score: 72 → 80
· Bankability: 65 → 75
· Distress / opportunity: speculative → avoid

Opportunity decay

hardening · 6-months

Hardening — profile is tightening. If you want to act, do it before the window closes further.

· 3 recent signals strengthening vs 0 weakening

What changed my view

Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 3 positive signals vs 0 negative.

↑Opportunity score: 72 → 80
↑Hygiene score: 70 → 90
↑Bankability: 65 → 75
·Distress / opportunity: speculative → avoid

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

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🔒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: Cultural education

Sector: Education

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

86101Hospital activities
88100Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
90030Artistic creation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 4 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

37 officers (5 active, 37 linked, 33 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

161 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

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	7	600

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 address

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (88 events)Click to expand

2026-01-20
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address · AD01
2025-12-09
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accounts · AA
2025-10-09
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-12-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-18
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-11-06
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-06-18
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-06-18
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-07
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JARVIE, Owen Thomas appointed
director
2023-12-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-22
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officers · TM01
2023-02-22
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-12-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-08
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STRANG, John Steven resigned
secretary
2022-12-08
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STRANG, John Steven resigned
director
2022-10-05
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-22
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MILLIGAN, Heather Fiona resigned
director
2022-03-16
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MANJI, Kainde Aisha appointed
director
2022-03-16
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-11-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-16
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officers · AP01
2021-11-10
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WINTHER, Timothy Johan appointed
director
2020-12-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-05-02
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HALL, Fiona Isabel resigned
director
2017-03-17
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SMILEY, Anita Elita resigned
director
2017-03-10
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PRITCHARD, William George resigned
director
2014-06-17
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MILLIGAN, Heather Fiona appointed
director
2013-06-17
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MCCUSKER, Victoria Jane appointed
director
2013-06-17
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PRITCHARD, William George appointed
director
2013-02-12
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WHYTE, Stuart Campbell resigned
director
2012-11-26
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WHITE, Kirsty resigned
director
2012-07-17
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KILPATRICK, Iain Wilson resigned
director
2010-10-06
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SEYMOUR, Carol Daphne resigned
director
2010-08-25
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HALL, Fiona Isabel appointed
director
2010-05-19
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GASKELL, Philip Aldroyd appointed
director
2010-05-19
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WHYTE, Stuart Campbell appointed
director
2010-02-17
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NESS, Tom resigned
director
2010-02-17
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RANKIN, John Nestor Edgar, Dr. resigned
director
2009-08-31
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OGILVY, Helen resigned
director
2009-07-28
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THOMSON, Alexander William Baylis resigned
director
2009-06-15
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WHITE, Kirsty appointed
director
2009-03-31
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SANDERSON, Jack resigned
director
2009-03-30
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NESS, Tom appointed
director
2009-03-24
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KILPATRICK, Iain Wilson appointed
director
2008-11-24
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CRAWFORD, Gillian Ruth resigned
director
2007-01-17
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THOMSON, Alexander William Baylis appointed
director
2006-10-03
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MIDDLETON, Roy Frank Gilbert resigned
secretary
2006-10-03
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STRANG, John Steven appointed
secretary
2006-10-03
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CRAWFORD, Gillian Ruth appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 88 events

Owner dependency

65/100

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.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.

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 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 low

Multiple registered office changes

low

Multiple address changes in a short period can indicate operational instability or admin disorder.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1988-03-16

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC85520 — Cultural education

Registered office

5 - 7 Upper Craigs

Stirling

FK8 2DG

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-30

Last: 2026-03-16