A J EVE ENTERPRISES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04721744 · ltd · incorporated 2003-04-03
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 22.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to May 2025
Net worth
£-9.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

3 live charges · oldest 22.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.1 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: 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
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 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
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
63 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
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £9,881
Cash YoY
+16%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£33k
↑ 16% YoY
Net Worth
-£10k
↓ 106% YoY
Current Assets
£48k
↓ 4.3% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
-£10k£2k£14k£26k£38k£50kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£-9.9k£-4.8k
Current assets£47.9k£50.0k
Cash£32.5k£28.0k
Debtors£14.0k£20.5k
Net assets£-9.9k£-4.8k

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
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 address
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-16
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  2. 2026-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  3. 2025-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  4. 2024-02-26
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  6. 2022-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-01-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  8. 2020-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-01-21
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-10-17
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-04-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2017-04-05
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    officers · CH01
  13. 2017-04-05
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  14. 2017-02-27
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-04-27
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2007-03-07
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  17. 2006-09-06
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    Charge satisfied #2
  18. 2004-09-23
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  19. 2004-03-09
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  20. 2003-04-03
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    Company incorporated
    As A J EVE ENTERPRISES LIMITED
  21. 2003-04-03
    ➕
    EVE, Jacqueline Ann appointed
    secretary
  22. 2003-04-03
    ➕
    EVE, Anthony John appointed
    director
  23. 2003-04-03
    ➕
    EVE, Jacqueline Ann appointed
    director
  24. 2003-04-03
    ➕
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2003-04-03
    ➖
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2003-04-03
    ➕
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  27. 2003-04-03
    ➖
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Anthony John Eve
Individual · British · DOB 05/1965 · age 61
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Jacqueline Ann Eve
Individual · British · DOB 03/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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6 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
Incorporated2003-04-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

Unit 2a Railway Triangle Industrial Estate
Dorchester
DT1 2PJ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-17
Last: 2026-04-03

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

EVE, Jacqueline Ann→
secretary · appointed 2003-04-03
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Active
EVE, Anthony John→
director · ~61y · appointed 2003-04-03
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Active
EVE, Jacqueline Ann→
director · ~62y · appointed 2003-04-03
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Active
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-04-03 · resigned 2003-04-03
Resigned
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-04-03 · resigned 2003-04-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property07/03/2007—
satisfied
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Legal mortgage1 property23/09/200406/09/2006
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Debenture1 property09/03/2004—
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Recent filings (63 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-16
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-28