MICROCOM (SCOTLAND) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC127233 · ltd · incorporated 1990-09-13
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 35.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.37M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
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 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 77). 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

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 35.5y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 35.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
98 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,368,440
Net assets shrinking
Down £60,391 YoY
Cash YoY
-12%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£183k
↓ 12% YoY
Net Worth
£1.4m
↓ 4.2% YoY
Current Assets
£198k
↓ 22% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£286k£572k£857k£1.1m£1.4mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£1.37M£1.44M
Current assets£198.1k£255.0k
Cash£183.1k£207.0k
Debtors£15.0k£48.0k
Net assets£1.37M£1.43M

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-27
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  5. 2024-10-02
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  6. 2023-12-21
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  7. 2023-02-17
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  8. 2022-12-30
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    address · AD01
  9. 2022-12-08
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  10. 2021-12-30
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  11. 2020-12-21
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  12. 2019-09-13
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  15. 2019-09-13
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  16. 2019-09-13
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  17. 2019-09-13
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  18. 2019-08-20
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  19. 2016-01-18
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    Charge satisfied #3
  20. 2009-03-27
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    Charge satisfied #1
  21. 2008-03-06
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  22. 1992-11-27
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    MACDONALD, Charlotte Wyllie resigned
    director
  23. 1991-10-22
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  24. 1991-02-01
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    MACDONALD, Charlotte Wyllie appointed
    director
  25. 1990-10-16
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  26. 1990-10-04
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    FYFE, Sheila Catherine appointed
    secretary
  27. 1990-10-04
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    MILLER, Ian Michael resigned
    secretary
  28. 1990-10-04
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    MILLER, Ian Michael resigned
    director
  29. 1990-09-20
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    FYFE, Sheila Catherine appointed
    director
  30. 1990-09-20
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    MACDONALD, James Bernard appointed
    director
  31. 1990-09-20
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    MILLER, Ian Michael appointed
    secretary
  32. 1990-09-20
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    MILLER, Ian Michael appointed
    director
  33. 1990-09-13
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    Company incorporated
    As MICROCOM (SCOTLAND) 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 36 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 36 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 36 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
Mr James Bernard Macdonald
Individual · British · DOB 11/1949 · age 77
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting01/09/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1990-09-13
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC85590 — Other education n.e.c.

Registered office

2nd Floor (East) Belgrave Court
Rosehall Road
Bellshill
North Lanarkshire
ML4 3NR
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-27
Last: 2025-09-13

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

FYFE, Sheila Catherine→
secretary · appointed 1990-10-04
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Active
FYFE, Sheila Catherine→
director · ~67y · appointed 1990-09-20
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Active
MACDONALD, James Bernard→
director · ~77y · appointed 1990-09-20
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Active
MILLER, Ian Michael→
secretary · appointed 1990-09-20 · resigned 1990-10-04
Resigned
MACDONALD, Charlotte Wyllie→
director · ~79y · appointed 1991-02-01 · resigned 1992-11-27
Resigned
MILLER, Ian Michael→
director · appointed 1990-09-20 · resigned 1990-10-04
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property06/03/200818/01/2016
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Standard security1 property22/10/1991—
satisfied
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property16/10/199027/03/2009
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Recent filings (98 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-10-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-26
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-02-17
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-12-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-15