ANGELA CAMPBELL PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC384591 · ltd · incorporated 2010-09-01

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 Aug 2025

Net worth

£6.9k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Portrait photographic activities

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

32 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £6,910

Cash YoY

-2%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£12k

↓ 1.7% YoY

Net Worth

£7k

↑ 39% YoY

Current Assets

£12k

↑ 2.3% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-08-31	2024-08-31
Total assets	£7.1k	£5.0k
Current assets	£12.4k	£12.1k
Cash	£11.7k	£11.9k
Debtors	£701	£219
Net assets	£6.9k	£5.0k

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

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand

2025-10-15
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2025-03-26
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2023-10-18
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2023-01-09
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2021-12-22
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2020-12-17
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2019-12-13
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2019-02-06
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2018-01-16
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2016-12-13
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2016-01-14
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2010-09-01
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Company incorporated
As ANGELA CAMPBELL PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED
2010-09-01
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CAMPBELL, Angela appointed
secretary
2010-09-01
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CAMPBELL, Angela appointed
director
2010-09-01
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CAMPBELL, Graeme appointed
director

Owner dependency

100/100

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.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "CAMPBELL" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 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

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 66. 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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Angela Campbell Individual · British · DOB 09/1967 · age 59	25–50%	25–50%	sig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · significant influence	30/06/2016
Mr Graeme Campbell Individual · British · DOB 03/1960 · age 66	25–50%	25–50%	sig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · significant influence	30/06/2016

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

Incorporated2010-09-01

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74201 — Portrait photographic activities

Registered office

Tigh Na Bruach

Phingask

Fraserburgh

Aberdeenshire

AB43 7BL

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-05-30

Last made up to: 2025-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-15

Last: 2025-09-01

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

CAMPBELL, Angela→

secretary · appointed 2010-09-01

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CAMPBELL, Angela→

director · ~59y · appointed 2010-09-01

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CAMPBELL, Graeme→

director · ~66y · appointed 2010-09-01

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