SCARF

🌳Matureactive

SC094819 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 1985-08-23

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Mar 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.

Sector: Human health & social work

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (63/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

65 officers (14 active, 65 linked, 57 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

226 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-03-31
Average employees	8800

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (122 events)Click to expand

2025-12-09
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2025-11-13
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2025-11-13
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2025-09-17
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DAVIDSON, Alana-Ann appointed
director
2025-09-17
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HENDRICKS, Natalya appointed
director
2025-05-19
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2025-04-28
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2025-04-16
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2025-04-02
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MORRISON, Fiona appointed
director
2025-04-02
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RICHARDSON, Will appointed
director
2025-04-02
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TAYLOR, Benjamin John appointed
director
2024-12-06
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accounts · AA
2024-11-28
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officers · TM01
2024-11-20
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RENNIE, Edwin Charles resigned
director
2024-01-12
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accounts · AA
2023-08-14
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address · AD01
2023-08-14
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2023-08-14
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2023-08-10
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LC SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
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2023-08-10
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STRONACHS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2022-12-09
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2022-05-30
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2022-05-30
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2022-04-19
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2022-03-16
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LOVIE, Tracie Anne resigned
director
2022-02-04
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2022-02-02
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RITCHIE, Mark appointed
director
2022-01-27
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2022-01-27
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2021-12-23
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2021-11-10
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LAWRIE, Thane appointed
director
2021-11-10
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MCWILLIAMS, Donna appointed
director
2021-11-10
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MILNE, Ramsay Galloway resigned
director
2021-11-10
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NICOL, Janice Lindsay resigned
director
2021-11-10
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TOMLINSON, John Attwell resigned
director
2021-08-10
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JACKSON, Brett Matthew Carragher appointed
director
2020-12-16
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MACKIE, Susan appointed
director
2020-11-11
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BODIE, Douglas Albert resigned
director
2019-12-05
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MCWILLIAM, Graham resigned
director
2019-10-04
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DICK, David Allan appointed
director
2019-05-01
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MCQUILLAN, Heather resigned
director
2019-03-27
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ANGUS, Stacy Watt appointed
director
2017-10-25
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LOVIE, Tracie Anne appointed
director
2017-05-10
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MORRISON, Jeanie Simpson resigned
director
2017-03-01
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MCQUILLAN, Heather appointed
director
2016-10-31
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MCWILLIAM, Graham appointed
director
2016-10-27
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GORDON, James David resigned
director
2014-09-11
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WEBSTER, Ronald Rennie, Cllr resigned
director
2012-08-09
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NICOL, Janice Lindsay appointed
director

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Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-13 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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.)

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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

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated1985-08-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC88990 — Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.

Registered office

Johnstone House

52-54 Rose Street

Aberdeen

AB10 1HA

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-29

Last: 2025-08-15