HANDBALL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03650334 · ltd · incorporated 1998-10-15
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 27.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£584.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Licenced restaurants
Sector: Accommodation & food service
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 56103Take-away food shops and mobile food stands
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 27.5y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 27.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
13 connected companies via shared directors
84
Filing history
69 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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 £584,909
Cash YoY
+386%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£334k
↑ 386% YoY
Net Worth
£585k
↑ 70% YoY
Current Assets
£685k
↑ 66% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£137k£274k£411k£548k£685kDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£624.1k£367.2k
Current assets£685.0k£411.8k
Cash£333.7k£68.7k
Debtors£329.3k£320.6k
Net assets£584.9k£344.5k

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

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Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-29
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  6. 2020-12-20
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  7. 2019-09-25
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  8. 2018-09-29
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  9. 2017-09-28
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  10. 2016-09-21
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  11. 2015-11-17
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  12. 2015-09-29
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  13. 2014-11-06
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  14. 2014-09-26
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  15. 2013-10-23
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  16. 1998-11-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  17. 1998-10-25
    ➕
    WILSON, Mark William Richard appointed
    secretary
  18. 1998-10-25
    ➕
    WILLIAMSON, Neil John appointed
    director
  19. 1998-10-25
    ➕
    WILSON, Mark William Richard appointed
    director
  20. 1998-10-15
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    Company incorporated
    As HANDBALL LIMITED
  21. 1998-10-15
    ➕
    SEMKEN LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  22. 1998-10-15
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    SEMKEN LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  23. 1998-10-15
    ➕
    LUFMER LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  24. 1998-10-15
    ➖
    LUFMER LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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.)

Group structure

Ian Williamson & Son (King's Lynn) Ltd holds majority control (50-75%). Likely parent but not wholly-owned.

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Ian Williamson & Son (King's Lynn) Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 50-75% shares
majority
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HANDBALL LIMITED
This company · 03650334

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ian Williamson & Son (King's Lynn) Ltd
Corporate entity
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016
Mr Mark William Richard Wilson
Individual · British · DOB 03/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1998-10-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC56101 — Licenced restaurants

Registered office

22-26 King Street
King's Lynn
Norfolk
PE30 1HJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-29
Last: 2025-10-15

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

WILSON, Mark William Richard→
secretary · appointed 1998-10-25
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Active
WILLIAMSON, Neil John→
director · ~60y · appointed 1998-10-25
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Active
WILSON, Mark William Richard→
director · ~63y · appointed 1998-10-25
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Active
SEMKEN LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1998-10-15 · resigned 1998-10-15
Resigned
LUFMER LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 1998-10-15 · resigned 1998-10-15
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property10/11/1998—
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Recent filings (69 total)

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2025-10-15
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2025-09-29
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2024-10-15
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2024-09-26
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2023-10-18
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2023-09-29
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2022-10-24
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2022-09-29
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2021-10-25
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2021-09-23
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2020-12-21
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2020-12-20
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2019-11-19
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2019-09-25
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2018-10-15