SRONDOIRE RENEWABLES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC477297 · ltd · incorporated 2014-05-09
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 11.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
—
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
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 70/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · oldest 11.5y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 11.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
18 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
38 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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
—
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-08-31
Average employees0

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-04-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-03-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-03-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-05-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-12-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2019-04-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-07-24
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  11. 2018-07-16
    ➕
    MCELHINNEY, Jacqueline appointed
    secretary
  12. 2018-03-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-08-10
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  14. 2017-07-31
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    WISHART, Alastair William Chisholm resigned
    secretary
  15. 2017-03-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-05-18
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  17. 2016-02-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2015-05-14
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    annual-return · AR01
  19. 2014-11-18
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Temporis Capital LLP
  20. 2014-11-14
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Temporis Capital LLP
  21. 2014-11-13
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Temporis Capital LLP
  22. 2014-11-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Temporis Capital LLP
  23. 2014-09-19
    ➕
    BROADFOOT, Duncan Collins appointed
    director
  24. 2014-09-19
    ➕
    LITHGOW, John Alexander appointed
    director
  25. 2014-09-19
    ➕
    WISHART, Alastair William Chisholm appointed
    secretary
  26. 2014-05-09
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    Company incorporated
    As SRONDOIRE RENEWABLES LIMITED
  27. 2014-05-09
    ➕
    LITHGOW, James Frank, Sir appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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
Sir James Frank Lithgow
Individual · British · DOB 06/1970 · age 56
50–75%
—50-75% shares07/05/2017

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

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8 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
Incorporated2014-05-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

Ormsary Estate Office
Ormsary
Lochgilphead
Argyll
PA31 8PE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-19
Last: 2025-05-05

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

MCELHINNEY, Jacqueline→
secretary · appointed 2018-07-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BROADFOOT, Duncan Collins→
director · ~70y · appointed 2014-09-19
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Active
LITHGOW, James Frank, Sir→
director · ~56y · appointed 2014-05-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LITHGOW, John Alexander→
director · ~52y · appointed 2014-09-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WISHART, Alastair William Chisholm→
secretary · appointed 2014-09-19 · resigned 2017-07-31
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
4
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Temporis Capital
Temporis Capital LLP
A registered charge1 property18/11/2014—
outstanding
Temporis Capital
Temporis Capital LLP
A registered charge—14/11/2014—
outstanding
Temporis Capital
Temporis Capital LLP
A registered charge—13/11/2014—
outstanding
Temporis Capital
Temporis Capital LLP
A registered charge—13/11/2014—
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Recent filings (38 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2026-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-05-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-03-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-04-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-03-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-05-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-12-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-05-14