JACDAW HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC389903 · ltd · incorporated 2010-12-03
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 15.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£1.13M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-trading company
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Dormant / non-trading with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). 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 · 2 lenders · oldest 15.3y

70/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 15.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
38 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,129,812
Cash YoY
+68%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1.0m
↑ 68% YoY
Net Worth
£1.1m
↑ 41% YoY
Current Assets
£1.1m
↑ 44% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£226k£452k£678k£904k£1.1mDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£1.13M£800.2k
Current assets£1.08M£750.2k
Cash£1.02M£609.8k
Debtors£55.4k£140.4k
Net assets£1.13M£800.2k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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 (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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  2. 2025-04-02
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  3. 2025-04-01
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  4. 2025-04-01
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  5. 2025-04-01
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  6. 2025-04-01
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    officers · TM02
  7. 2025-03-31
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    WOOD, Charles Andrew appointed
    director
  8. 2025-03-31
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    SMITH, Patricia Mary resigned
    secretary
  9. 2024-08-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  10. 2023-08-30
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  11. 2022-08-25
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  12. 2021-09-15
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  13. 2020-10-30
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  14. 2019-04-15
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  15. 2018-09-21
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    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2018-09-13
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Bibby Invoice Discounting Limited
  17. 2018-09-04
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  18. 2018-09-04
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    Charge satisfied #1
  19. 2018-04-20
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  20. 2017-03-31
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  21. 2011-01-31
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Bibby Factors Scotland Limited
  22. 2010-12-03
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    Company incorporated
    As JACDAW HOLDINGS LIMITED
  23. 2010-12-03
    ➕
    SMITH, James Hector appointed
    director
  24. 2010-12-03
    ➕
    SMITH, Patricia Mary appointed
    secretary

Owner dependency

83/100
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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. 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 15 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.)

Group structure

47b Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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47b Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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JACDAW HOLDINGS LIMITED
This company · SC389903

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
47b Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control31/03/2025
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr James Smithceased 31/03/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control
  • Mrs Patricia Mary Smithceased 31/03/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2010-12-03
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

20/22 Glenburn Road
College Milton
East Kilbride
G74 5BB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-17
Last: 2025-12-03

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

SMITH, James Hector→
director · ~69y · appointed 2010-12-03
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Active
WOOD, Charles Andrew→
director · ~64y · appointed 2025-03-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Patricia Mary→
secretary · appointed 2010-12-03 · resigned 2025-03-31
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Bibby Financial Services
Bibby Invoice Discounting Limited
A registered charge—13/09/2018—
satisfied
Bibby Financial Services
Bibby Factors Scotland Limited
Floating charge1 property31/01/201104/09/2018
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Recent filings (38 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-04-02
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-04-01
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-04-01
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-04-01
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-04-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-15