EMERGENCY ONE (U.K.) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC319443 · ltd · incorporated 2007-03-23

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 18.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

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

Leverage-led grower with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 65/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

5 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 18.9y

80/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 18.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

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

Lenders & charges

5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)

Directors & officers

16 officers (7 active, 16 linked, 14 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

95 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £3,350,388

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Profit before tax	£3.35M	£3.12M
Average employees	250	23200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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 officers

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (51 events)Click to expand

2026-02-23
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-30
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-27
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accounts · AA
2024-09-05
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officers · TM01
2024-08-30
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SMITH, Chester resigned
director
2023-09-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-20
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officers · TM01
2021-10-31
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MCBETH, Martin Gerrard resigned
director
2021-09-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-12
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officers · TM01
2021-01-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-11
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-08-18
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MORRAN, Elaine Murray resigned
director
2020-08-18
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MORRAN, Francis Stephen Reid resigned
director
2020-06-15
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2020-06-13
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2020-04-16
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BELL, Alistair appointed
director
2020-04-16
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BELL, Steven appointed
director
2020-04-16
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DAWSON, Lee appointed
director
2020-04-16
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FERGUSON, Alex appointed
director
2020-04-16
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GIRVAN, Brian appointed
director
2020-04-16
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SMITH, Chester appointed
director
2020-04-16
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officers · AP01
2020-04-16
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officers · AP01
2020-04-16
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officers · AP01
2020-04-16
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officers · AP01
2019-04-11
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2019-03-31
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2018-12-03
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BURNS, William resigned
director
2018-10-10
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WELLS, Robert resigned
director
2016-08-24
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LAWSON, Stephen John resigned
director
2014-06-23
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MORRAN, Elaine Murray appointed
director
2012-06-08
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BELL, John Andrew appointed
director
2012-02-01
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2012-01-24
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Charge satisfied #1
2012-01-18
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2011-04-01
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LAWSON, Stephen John appointed
director
2011-04-01
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MCBETH, Martin Gerrard appointed
director
2010-05-20
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BOYDSLAW (SECRETARIAL SERVICES) LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2010-05-20
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BOYDSLAW (DIRECTORS) LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2008-01-01
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MORRAN, Francis Stephen Reid appointed
director
2007-06-08
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2007-05-14
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MADSEN, Michael appointed
director
2007-05-14
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BURNS, William appointed
director
2007-05-14
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WELLS, Robert appointed
director
2007-03-23
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Company incorporated
As EMERGENCY ONE (U.K.) LIMITED
2007-03-23
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BOYDSLAW (SECRETARIAL SERVICES) LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary

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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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.)

Group structure

Emergency One Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Emergency One Group Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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EMERGENCY ONE (U.K.) LIMITED

This company · SC319443

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Emergency One Group Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	14/06/2019

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Michael Madsenceased 14/06/2019· 25-50% shares

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2007-03-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

3a Caponacre Industrial Estate

Cumnock

Ayrshire

KA18 1SH

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-20

Last: 2025-06-06