DENHEAD FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC298268 · ltd · incorporated 2006-03-07
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 12.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£3.12M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
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 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). 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 12.0y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 12.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
55 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £3,115,587
Cash YoY
+152%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£58k
↑ 152% YoY
Net Worth
£3.1m
↑ 16% YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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£0£623k£1.2m£1.9m£2.5m£3.1mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Cash£57.9k£23.0k
Net assets£3.12M£2.69M

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

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3 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-07-01
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    move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-address
    address · AD04
  3. 2024-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-03-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-03-27
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-03-14
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2023-03-14
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2022-03-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-02-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-03-07
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2016-01-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2014-05-06
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2006-03-07
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    Company incorporated
    As DENHEAD FARMS LIMITED
  18. 2006-03-07
    ➕
    NEILL, Karen Anne appointed
    secretary
  19. 2006-03-07
    ➕
    NEILL, Douglas James appointed
    director
  20. 2006-03-07
    ➕
    NEILL, Karen Anne appointed
    director
  21. 2006-03-07
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2006-03-07
    ➖
    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2006-03-07
    ➕
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 2006-03-07
    ➖
    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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — 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 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Douglas James Neill
Individual · British · DOB 04/1966 · age 60
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Karen Anne Neill
Individual · British · DOB 03/1967 · age 59
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2006-03-07
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Easter Denhead Farm
Coupar Angus
Blairgowrie
PH13 9ET

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-21
Last: 2026-03-07

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

NEILL, Karen Anne→
secretary · appointed 2006-03-07
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Active
NEILL, Douglas James→
director · ~60y · appointed 2006-03-07
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Active
NEILL, Karen Anne→
director · ~59y · appointed 2006-03-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-03-07 · resigned 2006-03-07
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-03-07 · resigned 2006-03-07
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—06/05/2014—
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Recent filings (55 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-16
move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-address
address · AD04
2025-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-14
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-02-16