CABER ENTERPRISES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC207157 · ltd · incorporated 2000-05-16

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 24.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Educational support services

Sector: Education

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 59). 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 24.3y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 24.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (74/100)

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

3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

9 officers (3 active, 9 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

82 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

3 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	2025-07-31	2024-07-31	2023-07-31
Average employees	2	200	300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand

2026-04-30
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accounts · AA
2025-04-30
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accounts · AA
2024-04-16
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2023-07-18
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accounts · AA
2022-07-25
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accounts · AA
2021-04-30
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accounts · AA
2020-04-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-05-31
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accounts · AA
2019-02-20
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address · AD01
2018-05-30
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mortgage · MR04
2018-05-30
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Charge satisfied #1
2018-04-30
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accounts · AA
2017-08-01
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2017-07-24
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MACKINNON, Neil Maxwell resigned
director
2017-07-24
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officers · TM01
2017-04-30
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accounts · AA
2016-06-15
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annual-return · AR01
2016-04-29
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accounts · AA
2004-01-01
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BANCROFT, Thomas appointed
secretary
2004-01-01
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MELHUISH, Susan resigned
secretary
2003-06-27
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MACKINNON, Neil Maxwell appointed
director
2002-03-01
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BRUCE, Robert Calder resigned
director
2002-02-01
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BRUCE, Robert Calder appointed
director
2002-01-08
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2001-06-20
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BANCROFT, Philip James appointed
director
2001-06-01
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BANCROFT, Thomas appointed
director
2001-06-01
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MELHUISH, Susan appointed
secretary
2001-06-01
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TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2001-06-01
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REYNARD NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2001-06-01
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TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2000-05-16
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Company incorporated
As CABER ENTERPRISES LIMITED
2000-05-16
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TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-05-16
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REYNARD NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2000-05-16
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TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100

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 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 59 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 59. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2000-05-16

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC85600 — Educational support services

Registered office

Borthwick Mains Farm

Borthwick

Gorebridge

Midlothian

EH23 4RA

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-30

Last: 2025-05-16

Officers (3 active · 6 resigned)

BANCROFT, Thomas→

secretary · appointed 2004-01-01

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Active

BANCROFT, Philip James→

director · ~59y · appointed 2001-06-20

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Active

BANCROFT, Thomas→

director · ~59y · appointed 2001-06-01

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

MELHUISH, Susan→

secretary · appointed 2001-06-01 · resigned 2004-01-01

Resigned

TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-05-16 · resigned 2001-06-01

Resigned

BRUCE, Robert Calder→

director · ~60y · appointed 2002-02-01 · resigned 2002-03-01

Resigned

MACKINNON, Neil Maxwell→

director · ~49y · appointed 2003-06-27 · resigned 2017-07-24

Resigned

REYNARD NOMINEES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-05-16 · resigned 2001-06-01

Resigned

TM COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-05-16 · resigned 2001-06-01

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

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	08/01/2002	30/05/2018

Recent filings (82 total)

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2026-04-30

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2025-05-28

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accounts · AA

2025-04-30

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-07-11

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accounts · AA

2024-04-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-07-18

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-06-20

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-07-25

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2022-05-27

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2021-06-21

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-04-30

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-05-19

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2020-04-27

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2019-05-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2019-05-29