VENTUS RENEWABLES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC397245 · ltd · incorporated 2011-04-07
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
£-610
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35110
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 59). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
39 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 105 (micro)
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £610

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
-£610
↑ 98% YoY
Current Assets
£257
↓ 96% YoY
Current Liabilities
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-£29k-£22k-£15k-£7k-£38£7kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£-493£-28.7k
Current assets£257£7.3k
Net assets£-610£-29.3k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-04-14
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  5. 2022-11-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-06-15
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  8. 2021-06-15
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  9. 2021-06-15
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  10. 2021-06-14
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    officers · CH01
  11. 2021-02-16
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    capital · SH01
  12. 2020-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-12-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2012-02-01
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    KILCOYNE, Derek appointed
    director
  17. 2011-04-07
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    Company incorporated
    As VENTUS RENEWABLES LIMITED
  18. 2011-04-07
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    KILCOYNE, Brian James appointed
    director

Owner dependency

89/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 59 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 15 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 59. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Derek Kilcoyne
Individual · British · DOB 04/1970 · age 56
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting27/09/2022
Mr David Mccrae
Individual · British · DOB 04/1969 · age 57
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting16/02/2021
Mr Steven Kilcoyne
Individual · British · DOB 05/1965 · age 61
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting16/02/2021

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2011-04-07
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

5 Camstradden Drive East
Bearsden
Glasgow
G61 4AH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-13
Last: 2025-10-30

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

KILCOYNE, Brian James→
director · ~59y · appointed 2011-04-07
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Active
KILCOYNE, Derek→
director · ~56y · appointed 2012-02-01
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Active

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Recent filings (39 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-14
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-17
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-06-15
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-06-15
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2021-06-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-14