KINDERHOUSE SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC243675 · ltd · incorporated 2003-02-10

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 Mar 2025

Net worth

£34.9k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Child day-care activities

Sector: Human health & social work

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

54 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 · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £34,865

Cash YoY

+15%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£46k

↑ 15% YoY

Net Worth

£35k

↑ 23% YoY

Current Assets

£53k

↑ 12% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£37.4k	£35.2k
Current assets	£53.3k	£47.4k
Cash	£45.7k	£39.9k
Debtors	£7.6k	£7.6k
Net assets	£34.9k	£28.4k

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

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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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2025-12-18
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2022-12-12
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2021-12-23
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2020-10-21
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2019-12-12
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2018-11-22
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2017-08-02
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2016-12-20
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2016-02-19
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2015-03-31
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2014-12-30
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2014-02-20
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2012-09-10
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FAIRBAIRN, Hayley resigned
secretary
2004-02-05
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FAIRBAIRN, Hayley resigned
director
2003-07-07
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FAIRBAIRN, Elizabeth Catherine appointed
secretary
2003-07-07
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FAIRBAIRN, Elizabeth Catherine appointed
director
2003-02-10
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Company incorporated
As KINDERHOUSE SERVICES LIMITED
2003-02-10
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WEST, Alexander appointed
director
2003-02-10
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FAIRBAIRN, Hayley appointed
secretary
2003-02-10
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-02-10
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-02-10
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FAIRBAIRN, Hayley appointed
director

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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — 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 70 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 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Ms Elizabeth Catherine Fairbairn Individual · United Kingdom · DOB 04/1958 · age 68	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	10/02/2017

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

Incorporated2003-02-10

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC88910 — Child day-care activities

Registered office

11 Millburn Place

Dumfries

Dumfries & Galloway

DG1 2SG

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-24

Last: 2026-02-10

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

FAIRBAIRN, Elizabeth Catherine→

secretary · appointed 2003-07-07

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Active

FAIRBAIRN, Elizabeth Catherine→

director · ~68y · appointed 2003-07-07

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Active

WEST, Alexander→

director · ~70y · appointed 2003-02-10

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Active

FAIRBAIRN, Hayley→

secretary · appointed 2003-02-10 · resigned 2012-09-10

Resigned

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-02-10 · resigned 2003-02-10

Resigned

FAIRBAIRN, Hayley→

director · ~45y · appointed 2003-02-10 · resigned 2004-02-05

Resigned

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