AQUARIUS CONTACT CENTRES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC367855 · ltd · incorporated 2009-11-02
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 4.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2024
Net worth
£180.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Wired telecommunications activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 4.9y

75/100
ready

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

  • · Charge age ~4.9 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
  • · 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
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
40 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 £180,271
Cash YoY
+42%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£99k
↑ 42% YoY
Net Worth
£180k
↑ 54% YoY
Current Assets
£165k
↑ 38% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£36k£72k£108k£144k£180kNov 2023Nov 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-11-302023-11-30
Total assets£295.5k£229.1k
Current assets£165.4k£120.1k
Cash£99.2k£69.8k
Debtors£66.2k£50.3k
Net assets£180.3k£116.9k

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

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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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-29
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  2. 2024-08-26
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  3. 2023-08-31
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  4. 2022-11-30
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  5. 2021-08-30
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  6. 2021-07-27
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  7. 2021-07-22
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  8. 2021-07-02
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  9. 2021-06-01
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  10. 2021-05-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  11. 2021-05-21
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  12. 2020-11-25
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  13. 2019-07-17
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  14. 2018-08-31
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  15. 2017-08-31
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  16. 2016-08-31
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  17. 2015-12-18
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  18. 2009-11-02
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    Company incorporated
    As AQUARIUS CONTACT CENTRES LIMITED
  19. 2009-11-02
    ➕
    FORFAR, Carol appointed
    director
  20. 2009-11-02
    ➕
    FORFAR, Roderick Charles appointed
    director

Owner dependency

96/100
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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 16 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
Mr Roderick Charles Forfar
Individual · British · DOB 09/1971 · age 55
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Carol Forfar
Individual · British · DOB 09/1949 · age 77
25–50%
—25-50% shares21/05/2021

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
Incorporated2009-11-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC61100 — Wired telecommunications activities

Registered office

Unit 1 Ground Floor Kingseat Road
Halbeath
Dunfermline
KY11 8RY
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-16
Last: 2025-11-02

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

FORFAR, Carol→
director · ~77y · appointed 2009-11-02
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Active
FORFAR, Roderick Charles→
director · ~55y · appointed 2009-11-02
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property22/07/2021—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—26/05/2021—
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Recent filings (40 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-17
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accounts · AA
2025-08-29
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-08
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accounts · AA
2024-08-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-13
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accounts · AA
2023-08-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-30
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-07-27
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-07-02
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-06-01
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-05-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-10