ASPIRE CLEANING & FACILITIES LTD

🌳Matureactive
SC379991 · ltd · incorporated 2010-06-09
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£255.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Specialised cleaning services
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -65% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
36 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £255,484
Cash draining
Cash down 65% YoY
Cash YoY
-65%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£15k
↓ 65% YoY
Net Worth
£255k
↑ 42% YoY
Current Assets
£286k
↑ 4.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£57k£115k£172k£229k£286kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£259.4k£194.7k
Current assets£286.3k£273.9k
Cash£14.7k£41.6k
Net assets£255.5k£179.9k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-10
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  4. 2024-03-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-02-28
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    SLOMAN, Christopher resigned
    director
  6. 2022-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-03-30
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  8. 2022-03-11
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    SLOMAN, Dannielle resigned
    director
  9. 2022-03-11
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  10. 2022-03-09
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  11. 2022-03-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  13. 2020-02-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  14. 2019-03-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-03-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  16. 2016-07-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  17. 2016-07-01
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    annual-return · AR01
  18. 2010-06-09
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    Company incorporated
    As ASPIRE CLEANING & FACILITIES LTD
  19. 2010-06-09
    ➕
    SLOMAN, Alexander Craven appointed
    director
  20. 2010-06-09
    ➕
    SLOMAN, Julie appointed
    director
  21. 2010-06-09
    ➕
    SLOMAN, Christopher appointed
    director
  22. 2010-06-09
    ➕
    SLOMAN, Dannielle appointed
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 67 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Julie Sloman
Individual · British · DOB 07/1966 · age 60
25–50%
—25-50% shares18/06/2017
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Alexander Craven Slomanceased 17/03/2022· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated2010-06-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC81222 — Specialised cleaning services

Registered office

1 Morina Gardens
Glasgow
G53 7XQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-13
Last: 2026-03-30

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

SLOMAN, Alexander Craven→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-06-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SLOMAN, Julie→
director · ~60y · appointed 2010-06-09
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Active
SLOMAN, Christopher→
director · ~41y · appointed 2010-06-09 · resigned 2024-02-28
Resigned
SLOMAN, Dannielle→
director · ~34y · appointed 2010-06-09 · resigned 2022-03-11
Resigned

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Recent filings (36 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-10
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-30
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-03-30
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-03-11
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2022-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-06-28