AIGAS FIELD CENTRE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC498637 · ltd · incorporated 2015-02-23
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 8.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other education n.e.c.
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 8.1y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
30 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

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Average employees26002300

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-25
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2024-10-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-10-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-10-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-08-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-08-04
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    officers · AP01
  9. 2020-08-04
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  10. 2020-08-01
    ➕
    JACKSON, Gregory appointed
    director
  11. 2020-08-01
    ➕
    JACKSON, Hermione appointed
    director
  12. 2020-03-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2020-03-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  14. 2019-06-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-05-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-03-23
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  17. 2018-03-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
  18. 2017-07-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  19. 2016-12-10
    ➖
    LISTER-KAYE, John Warwick Noel resigned
    director
  20. 2015-02-23
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    Company incorporated
    As AIGAS FIELD CENTRE LIMITED
  21. 2015-02-23
    ➕
    LISTER-KAYE, John Phillip, Sir appointed
    director
  22. 2015-02-23
    ➕
    LISTER-KAYE, John Warwick Noel 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 80 — 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 80 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Sir John Phillip Lister-Kaye
Individual · British · DOB 05/1946 · age 80
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2015-02-23
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC85590 — Other education n.e.c.

Registered office

House Of Aigas
Aigas
Beauly
Highland
IV4 7AD
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-09
Last: 2026-02-23

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

JACKSON, Gregory→
director · ~37y · appointed 2020-08-01
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Active
JACKSON, Hermione→
director · ~36y · appointed 2020-08-01
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Active
LISTER-KAYE, John Phillip, Sir→
director · ~80y · appointed 2015-02-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LISTER-KAYE, John Warwick Noel→
director · ~52y · appointed 2015-02-23 · resigned 2016-12-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
A registered charge1 property22/03/2018—
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Recent filings (30 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-02-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-10-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-10-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-08-14
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-08-04
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-08-04