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SC353562 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2009-01-15

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 Mar 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other human health activities

Sector: Human health & social work

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 85). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (63/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

26 officers (8 active, 26 linked, 25 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

91 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

1 year 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	2025-03-31
Average employees	1400

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

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (63 events)Click to expand

2025-11-10
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2025-10-28
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NEWLANDS, Michael resigned
director
2025-09-02
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2024-09-13
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2024-07-24
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2024-07-24
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2024-07-24
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officers · CH03
2024-01-09
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officers · AP01
2024-01-09
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officers · TM01
2024-01-09
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officers · TM01
2023-11-07
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accounts · AA
2023-10-23
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WALKER, Andrew appointed
director
2023-10-23
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DAUN, Lyndsey resigned
director
2023-10-23
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JOHNSTON, Shelley resigned
director
2022-12-06
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accounts · AA
2021-08-24
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2021-07-06
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2021-05-26
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2021-05-26
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2021-04-26
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JOHNSTON, Shelley appointed
director
2020-11-23
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accounts · AA
2020-01-27
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2020-01-27
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2020-01-23
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DAUN, Lyndsey appointed
director
2019-12-31
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SCRIMGEOUR, Ronald Joseph resigned
director
2019-12-02
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PARKINSON, Vivien resigned
director
2019-01-14
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NEWLANDS, Michael appointed
director
2017-11-15
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MORRISON, Donald George appointed
director
2017-09-14
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HOGAN, Brian resigned
director
2017-05-24
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MACQUEEN, George Edward Alan resigned
director
2017-05-24
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MARTIN, Michael William Alick resigned
director
2016-06-27
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MACQUEEN, Richard resigned
director
2016-06-27
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THOMSON, Gary resigned
director
2015-11-10
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MCLAUGHLIN, Skylar appointed
director
2015-11-10
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SCRIMGEOUR, Ronald Joseph appointed
director
2015-06-30
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EASTON, Douglas appointed
director
2015-06-30
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HOLLINSHEAD, Lynn Frances resigned
director
2015-06-30
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SARWAR, Arif resigned
director
2015-06-30
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THOMSON, Gary appointed
director
2014-07-08
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WALKER, Edna Carol appointed
director
2014-07-08
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FLEMING, Mark resigned
director
2014-07-08
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HOLLINSHEAD, Lynn Frances appointed
director
2014-07-08
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SARWAR, Arif appointed
director
2014-07-08
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WRIGHT, Shirley resigned
director
2014-01-28
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WIGHTON, Lorraine appointed
director
2014-01-28
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MACQUEEN, Richard appointed
director
2014-01-28
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PARKINSON, Vivien appointed
director
2012-01-10
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CARMICHAEL, Kathleen resigned
director
2011-04-11
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SCRIMGEOUR, Ronald Joseph resigned
director
2011-02-22
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MACQUEEN, George Edward Alan appointed
director

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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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — 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 70+: Senior director is approximately 85 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
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

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated2009-01-15

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC86900 — Other human health activities

Registered office

Tayside Deaf Hub The Old Mill

23 Brown Street

Dundee

Angus

DD1 5EF

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-23

Last: 2026-01-09