SOCIAL CARE COMMISSIONING & CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED

💤Zombieactive

SC398986 · ltd · incorporated 2011-05-06

Investment thesis

Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.

Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.

Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£41.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. 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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

1 officers (1 active, 1 linked, 1 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

36 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 · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £41,404

Cash YoY

-2%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£50k

↓ 1.5% YoY

Net Worth

£41k

↑ 10% YoY

Current Assets

£50k

↓ 8.7% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Total assets	£41.4k	£37.5k
Current assets	£50.4k	£55.2k
Cash	£50.4k	£51.1k
Debtors	—	£4.0k
Net assets	£41.4k	£37.5k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand

2026-03-26
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accounts · AA
2024-09-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-09-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-01-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-08-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-08-11
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capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2020-10-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-17
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confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2019-12-20
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capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2019-09-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2018-08-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2017-08-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2016-11-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-11-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-07-23
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annual-return · AR01
2011-05-06
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Company incorporated
As SOCIAL CARE COMMISSIONING & CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
2011-05-06
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O'TOOLE, Mary 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

+Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+No director turnover: Company is 15 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

88/100

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 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Mary O'Toole Individual · British · DOB 01/1958 · age 68	25–50%	25–50%	board controlsig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · 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

Incorporated2011-05-06

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

22 Backbrae Street

Kilsyth

Glasgow

Lanarkshire

G65 0NH

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-28

Last: 2025-07-14

Officers (1 active · 0 resigned)

O'TOOLE, Mary→

director · ~68y · appointed 2011-05-06

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