COLDWELLS FARM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC260056 · ltd · incorporated 2003-12-01
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
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 96-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 96). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
59 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

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

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees0—

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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 (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-02-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-02-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-02-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-03-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-12-02
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  7. 2020-12-02
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  8. 2020-09-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-12-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2019-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-09-09
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  12. 2019-09-04
    ➖
    GORDON, Peter Mitchell, Reverend resigned
    director
  13. 2019-09-04
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  14. 2019-08-28
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    GORDON, David Adam appointed
    director
  15. 2018-12-13
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2018-12-13
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2018-09-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-09-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  19. 2013-01-01
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    TURCAN CONNELL COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2013-01-01
    ➖
    TURCAN CONNELL WS resigned
    corporate-secretary
  21. 2010-04-25
    ➖
    HARPER, Margaret Phimister resigned
    director
  22. 2004-06-17
    ➕
    BOYD, William Dalziel appointed
    director
  23. 2004-02-23
    ➖
    BOYD, Betty Ledingham resigned
    director
  24. 2003-12-01
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    Company incorporated
    As COLDWELLS FARM LIMITED
  25. 2003-12-01
    ➕
    TURCAN CONNELL WS appointed
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2003-12-01
    ➕
    BOYD, Betty Ledingham appointed
    director
  27. 2003-12-01
    ➕
    GORDON, Peter Mitchell, Reverend appointed
    director
  28. 2003-12-01
    ➕
    HARPER, Margaret Phimister 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 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 96 — 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 96 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 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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
Incorporated2003-12-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

5th Floor, Princes Exchange
1 Earl Grey Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9EE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-15
Last: 2025-12-01

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

TURCAN CONNELL COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2013-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BOYD, William Dalziel→
director · ~96y · appointed 2004-06-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GORDON, David Adam→
director · ~59y · appointed 2019-08-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TURCAN CONNELL WS→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2003-12-01 · resigned 2013-01-01
Resigned
BOYD, Betty Ledingham→
director · ~92y · appointed 2003-12-01 · resigned 2004-02-23
Resigned
GORDON, Peter Mitchell, Reverend→
director · ~96y · appointed 2003-12-01 · resigned 2019-09-04
Resigned
HARPER, Margaret Phimister→
director · ~95y · appointed 2003-12-01 · resigned 2010-04-25
Resigned

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Recent filings (59 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-08-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-02-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-02-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-02-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-15
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2020-12-02
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-09-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-06