LITTLE BEEHIVE NURSERY (MONTROSE) LTD
🌳Matureactive
SC330672 · ltd · incorporated 2007-09-10
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 18.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Pre-primary education
Sector: Education
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 18.4y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 18.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (81/100)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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
60 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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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 | 2024-07-31 | 2023-07-31 |
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| Total assets | — | £418.8k |
| Current assets | — | £152.6k |
| Net assets | — | £353.9k |
| Average employees | 1700 | — |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2025-08-26📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2025-08-26🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2025-07-25📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-07-25📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-04-28➕DAVIDSON, Sandra appointeddirector
- 2025-04-28📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2025-04-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-04-07📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2025-04-07📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-04-01📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-04-01📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-04-01📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2024-04-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-07-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-10📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2021-12-09📄dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspendeddissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
- 2021-11-30📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2021-07-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-06-09📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2020-07-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-03-10🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2007-12-03🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2007-09-10🏢Company incorporatedAs LITTLE BEEHIVE NURSERY (MONTROSE) LTD
- 2007-09-10➕CRAIG, Carol Lindsay appointedsecretary
- 2007-09-10➕CRAIG, Carol Lindsay appointeddirector
- 2007-09-10➕MARTIN, Jennifer Elizabeth appointeddirector
Owner dependency
68/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
53/100
Moderate signalSome succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Group structure
Hillpark Management Services Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.
🏛️ultimate parent
Hillpark Management Services Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
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LITTLE BEEHIVE NURSERY (MONTROSE) LTD
This company · SC330672
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hillpark Management Services Limited Corporate entity | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 03/04/2025 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Ms Jennifer Elizabeth Martinceased 03/04/2025· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2007-09-10
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC85100 — Pre-primary education
Registered office
F1 The Granary Business Centre
Coal Road
Cupar
Fife
KY15 5YQ
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-04-30
Last made up to: 2024-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-24
Last: 2025-09-10
Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)
CRAIG, Carol Lindsay→
Activesecretary · appointed 2007-09-10
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CRAIG, Carol Lindsay→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2007-09-10
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DAVIDSON, Sandra→
Activedirector · ~53y · appointed 2025-04-28
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MARTIN, Jennifer Elizabeth→
Activedirector · ~62y · appointed 2007-09-10
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC | A registered charge | — | 10/03/2020 | — | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 03/12/2007 | 26/08/2025 |
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Recent filings (60 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-18
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2025-08-26
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-07-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-25
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-09
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-04-07
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-04-07
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-04-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-04-01
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-04-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-04-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-06-27