HELIX CONSULTING ENGINEERS LTD.

🌳Matureactive

SC282482 · ltd · incorporated 2005-04-01

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£194

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Specialised design activities

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). 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, 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

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

50 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 £194

Net assets shrinking

Down £83 YoY

Cash YoY

+35%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£25k

↑ 35% YoY

Net Worth

£194

↓ 30% YoY

Current Assets

£58k

↓ 33% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£1.7k	£1.9k
Current assets	£57.7k	£86.2k
Cash	£25.2k	£18.6k
Debtors	£30.8k	£47.6k
Net assets	£194	£277

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-12-17
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2024-11-26
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accounts · AA
2023-11-22
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accounts · AA
2022-12-14
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accounts · AA
2021-12-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-12-21
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accounts · AA
2019-12-12
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accounts · AA
2018-12-18
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accounts · AA
2017-12-05
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accounts · AA
2017-05-23
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address · AD01
2016-08-11
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accounts · AA
2016-04-02
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annual-return · AR01
2015-12-17
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accounts · AA
2015-04-21
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annual-return · AR01
2014-12-18
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accounts · AA
2005-04-01
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Company incorporated
As HELIX CONSULTING ENGINEERS LTD.
2005-04-01
➕
SIMPSON, James appointed
secretary
2005-04-01
➕
SIMPSON, James appointed
director
2005-04-01
➕
SIMPSON, Lorna Marion Mabel appointed
director
2005-04-01
➕
BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2005-04-01
➖
BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2005-04-01
➕
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2005-04-01
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — 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 61. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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
Mr James Alexander Simpson Individual · British · DOB 12/1969 · age 57	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mrs Lorna Marion Mabel Simpson Individual · British · DOB 04/1965 · age 61	25–50%	—	25-50% 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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2005-04-01

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74100 — Specialised design activities

Registered office

Kirian

Cowstrandburn

Dunfermline

KY12 9HP

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-11

Last: 2026-02-25

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

SIMPSON, James→

secretary · appointed 2005-04-01

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Active

SIMPSON, James→

director · ~57y · appointed 2005-04-01

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Active

SIMPSON, Lorna Marion Mabel→

director · ~61y · appointed 2005-04-01

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Active

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-04-01 · resigned 2005-04-01

Resigned

STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2005-04-01 · resigned 2005-04-01

Resigned

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