MACNEIL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC111718 · ltd · incorporated 1988-06-17
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£-84.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 33200
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 71129Other engineering activities
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -100% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 4 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
105 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £84,130
Very low cash
Cash position: £49
Cash draining
Cash down 100% YoY
Cash YoY
-100%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£49
↓ 100% YoY
Net Worth
-£84k
↓ 54% YoY
Current Assets
£6k
↓ 78% YoY
Current Liabilities
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-£84k-£62k-£40k-£18k£4k£26kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£-70.4k£-34.2k
Current assets£5.7k£26.4k
Cash£49£20.7k
Debtors£5.7k£5.7k
Net assets£-84.1k£-54.5k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-22
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  2. 2025-01-27
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  3. 2023-12-22
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  4. 2023-12-22
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  5. 2023-12-22
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  6. 2023-03-09
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  7. 2022-12-12
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  8. 2021-12-22
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  9. 2020-12-22
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  10. 2019-12-16
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  11. 2019-01-17
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  12. 2019-01-07
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  13. 2018-02-07
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  14. 2018-01-05
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  15. 2017-01-12
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  16. 2007-03-31
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    DENYER, Audrey appointed
    director
  17. 2003-04-01
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    DENYER, Audrey appointed
    secretary
  18. 2003-04-01
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    HAKIM, Jimmy Haron resigned
    secretary
  19. 1999-04-01
    ➕
    BURNS, Paul Andrew appointed
    director
  20. 1999-04-01
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    HAKIM, Jimmy Haron resigned
    director
  21. 1998-03-31
    ➖
    BURNS, Paul Andrew resigned
    director
  22. 1998-03-31
    ➕
    HAKIM, Jimmy Haron appointed
    director
  23. 1994-05-08
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    BURNS, Margaret resigned
    secretary
  24. 1994-05-08
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    HAKIM, Jimmy Haron appointed
    secretary
  25. 1992-01-01
    ➕
    BURNS, Margaret appointed
    secretary
  26. 1992-01-01
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    LEONARD, Elizabeth resigned
    secretary
  27. 1988-06-17
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    Company incorporated
    As MACNEIL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED

Owner dependency

83/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 38 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Paul Andrew Burns
Individual · British · DOB 07/1960 · age 66
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1988-06-17
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC33200 — SIC 33200

Registered office

3 Carmunnock Road
Glasgow
Lanarkshire
G44 4TZ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-14
Last: 2025-12-31

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

DENYER, Audrey→
secretary · appointed 2003-04-01
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Active
BURNS, Paul Andrew→
director · ~66y · appointed 1999-04-01
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Active
DENYER, Audrey→
director · ~65y · appointed 2007-03-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURNS, Margaret→
secretary · appointed 1992-01-01 · resigned 1994-05-08
Resigned
HAKIM, Jimmy Haron→
secretary · appointed 1994-05-08 · resigned 2003-04-01
Resigned
LEONARD, Elizabeth→
secretary · resigned 1992-01-01
Resigned
BURNS, Paul Andrew→
director · ~66y · resigned 1998-03-31
Resigned
HAKIM, Jimmy Haron→
director · ~71y · appointed 1998-03-31 · resigned 1999-04-01
Resigned

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Recent filings (105 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-16
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-12-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-03-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-22