TARVIE CROFTING ENTERPRISE

🌳Matureactive
SC191732 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 1998-12-04
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 8.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Landscape service activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 8.6y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (85/100)

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

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed
95
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (4 active, 9 linked, 7 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
74 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees000

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-12-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-12-04
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2025-05-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-03-04
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-12-21
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  7. 2023-12-13
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Koehler Renewable Energy UK Limited
  8. 2023-08-23
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  9. 2023-08-23
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    Charge satisfied #1
  10. 2023-03-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-03-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-05-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-09-29
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-04-12
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-11-06
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  17. 2017-10-20
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Airvolution Energy (Tarvie) Limited
  18. 2017-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  19. 2015-12-11
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    MACRAE, Donald Millar resigned
    director
  20. 2015-01-12
    ➕
    VENTERS, Caroline Anne appointed
    director
  21. 2015-01-12
    ➖
    FROWLEY, Robin resigned
    director
  22. 2014-01-01
    ➕
    BARTLETT, Dorothy Jean appointed
    director
  23. 2006-08-12
    ➕
    FROWLEY, Robin appointed
    director
  24. 2006-04-30
    ➖
    FROWLEY, Sydney Michael resigned
    director
  25. 2002-12-04
    ➕
    MACKENZIE, Gillian Paterson appointed
    secretary
  26. 2002-12-04
    ➖
    MACDONALD, Margaret-Ann resigned
    secretary
  27. 1999-12-09
    ➕
    MACRAE, Donald Millar appointed
    director
  28. 1999-05-26
    ➖
    MACKENZIE, Alasdair Matheson resigned
    director
  29. 1999-01-25
    ➕
    MACKENZIE, Alasdair Stewart appointed
    director
  30. 1998-12-04
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    Company incorporated
    As TARVIE CROFTING ENTERPRISE
  31. 1998-12-04
    ➕
    MACDONALD, Margaret-Ann appointed
    secretary
  32. 1998-12-04
    ➕
    FROWLEY, Sydney Michael appointed
    director
  33. 1998-12-04
    ➕
    MACKENZIE, Alasdair Matheson appointed
    director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Caroline Anne Venters
Individual · British · DOB 08/1956 · age 70
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
Mr Alasdair Stewart Mackenzie
Individual · British · DOB 11/1965 · age 61
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
Mrs Dorothy Jean Bartlett
Individual · British · DOB 10/1953 · age 73
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

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

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption
Incorporated1998-12-04
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC81300 — Landscape service activities

Registered office

Mcdowall & Co
Tulloch Street
Dingwall(Mr Macnab)
IV15 9JY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-18
Last: 2025-12-04

Officers (4 active · 5 resigned)

MACKENZIE, Gillian Paterson→
secretary · appointed 2002-12-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BARTLETT, Dorothy Jean→
director · ~73y · appointed 2014-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACKENZIE, Alasdair Stewart→
director · ~61y · appointed 1999-01-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
VENTERS, Caroline Anne→
director · ~70y · appointed 2015-01-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACDONALD, Margaret-Ann→
secretary · appointed 1998-12-04 · resigned 2002-12-04
Resigned
FROWLEY, Robin→
director · ~55y · appointed 2006-08-12 · resigned 2015-01-12
Resigned
FROWLEY, Sydney Michael→
director · ~88y · appointed 1998-12-04 · resigned 2006-04-30
Resigned
MACKENZIE, Alasdair Matheson→
director · ~92y · appointed 1998-12-04 · resigned 1999-05-26
Resigned
MACRAE, Donald Millar→
director · ~99y · appointed 1999-12-09 · resigned 2015-12-11
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Koehler Renewable Energy UK
Koehler Renewable Energy UK Limited
A registered charge1 property13/12/2023—
satisfied
Airvolution Energy (Tarvie)
Airvolution Energy (Tarvie) Limited
A registered charge1 property20/10/201723/08/2023
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Recent filings (74 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2026-05-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-04
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-05-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-03-04
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-08
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-08-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-03-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-03-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-05-11