CENTRAL TRAINING SERVICES LTD.
🌳Matureactive
SC200732 · ltd · incorporated 1999-10-13
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 26.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Other service activities
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). 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 26.4y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 26.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (76/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 2 with DOB)
77
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
80 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.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2024-10-31 | 2023-10-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 1000 | 900 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-05-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-02-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-02-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-10-02📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2019-10-02🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2019-03-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-28📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2018-08-28📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2018-04-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-03-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-11-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2016-10-13📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2007-06-19➕ARAMAYO, Suzanne appointeddirector
- 2001-10-31➕ARAMAYO, Suzanne appointedsecretary
- 2001-10-31➖THOMSON, Jacqueline resignedsecretary
- 1999-11-22🔒Charge registered #1Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
- 1999-10-13🏢Company incorporatedAs CENTRAL TRAINING SERVICES LTD.
- 1999-10-13➕THOMSON, Allan Bryce appointeddirector
- 1999-10-13➕THOMSON, Jacqueline appointedsecretary
- 1999-10-13➕BRIAN REID LTD. appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1999-10-13➖BRIAN REID LTD. resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1999-10-13➕STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1999-10-13➖STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resignedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 candidateStrong 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 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Allan Bryce Thomson Individual · British · DOB 12/1960 · age 66 | 50–75% | — | 50-75% shares | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-10-13
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC96090 — Other service activities n.e.c.
Registered office
5 Links Court Industrial Estate
Boness
Lothian
EH51 9UD
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-25
Last: 2025-12-11
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
Active
ARAMAYO, Suzanne→
Activedirector · ~46y · appointed 2007-06-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
THOMSON, Allan Bryce→
Activedirector · ~66y · appointed 1999-10-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
THOMSON, Jacqueline→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1999-10-13 · resigned 2001-10-31
BRIAN REID LTD.→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-10-13 · resigned 1999-10-13
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-10-13 · resigned 1999-10-13
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland | Bond & floating charge | 1 property | 22/11/1999 | 02/10/2019 |
Recent filings (80 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-02-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-14
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2019-10-02