AQUA PROJECTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC234073 · ltd · incorporated 2002-07-12

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

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

£27.5k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 36000

Sector: Water supply & waste

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

37000SIC 37000
70229Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

58 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £27,474

Cash YoY

+199%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£50k

↑ 199% YoY

Net Worth

£27k

↑ 651% YoY

Current Assets

£50k

↑ 120% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	£27.5k	£3.7k
Current assets	£49.8k	£22.6k
Cash	£49.8k	£16.6k
Debtors	—	£6.0k
Net assets	£27.5k	£3.7k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand

2025-12-17
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2025-02-21
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2024-02-29
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2023-03-17
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accounts · AA
2022-04-15
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accounts · AA
2021-04-30
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accounts · AA
2020-04-17
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accounts · AA
2019-04-30
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accounts · AA
2018-04-30
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2017-07-20
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address · AD01
2017-04-13
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accounts · AA
2002-07-12
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Company incorporated
As AQUA PROJECTS LIMITED
2002-07-12
➕
FERGUSON, Sandra appointed
secretary
2002-07-12
➕
FERGUSON, Alan Peter Burnside appointed
director
2002-07-12
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FERGUSON, Sandra appointed
director
2002-07-12
➕
BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-07-12
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-07-12
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2002-07-12
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
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Owner dependency

91/100

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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 65. 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 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Sandra Ferguson Individual · British · DOB 12/1963 · age 63	25–50%	25–50%	board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence	12/06/2016
Mr Alan Peter Burnside Ferguson Individual · British · DOB 03/1961 · age 65	25–50%	25–50%	board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · significant influence	12/06/2016

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

Incorporated2002-07-12

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC36000 — SIC 36000

Registered office

18 Lapwing Crescent

Motherwell

ML1 2FP

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-24

Last: 2025-08-10

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

FERGUSON, Sandra→

secretary · appointed 2002-07-12

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Active

FERGUSON, Alan Peter Burnside→

director · ~65y · appointed 2002-07-12

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Active

FERGUSON, Sandra→

director · ~63y · appointed 2002-07-12

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Active

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-07-12 · resigned 2002-07-12

Resigned

STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-07-12 · resigned 2002-07-12

Resigned

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