BOARDWISE (GLASGOW) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC139326 · ltd · incorporated 1992-07-15

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 33.7y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 99999

Sector: Extraterritorial bodies

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). 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

2 live charges · oldest 33.7y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 33.7 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 (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

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

94 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years 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 105 (micro)

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand

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1998-09-01
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GROOM, Veronica Martha resigned
director
1998-09-01
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STARK, Anne Violet resigned
director
1992-12-02
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GROOM, Andrew William resigned
director
1992-12-02
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GROOM, Veronica Martha appointed
director
1992-09-18
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Charge registered #2
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1992-09-07
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1992-07-15
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Company incorporated
As BOARDWISE (GLASGOW) LIMITED
1992-07-15
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CORRIGAN, Carolyn Alison Shaw appointed
secretary
1992-07-15
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CORRIGAN, Carolyn Alison Shaw appointed
director
1992-07-15
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STARK, Brian Thomas appointed
director
1992-07-15
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REID, Brian appointed
nominee-secretary
1992-07-15
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REID, Brian resigned
nominee-secretary
1992-07-15
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GROOM, Andrew William appointed
director
1992-07-15
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MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
nominee-director
1992-07-15
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MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
nominee-director
1992-07-15
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STARK, Anne Violet appointed
director

Owner dependency

83/100

Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

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 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

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 65. 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 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 34 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

Boardwise (Edinburgh) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Boardwise (Edinburgh) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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BOARDWISE (GLASGOW) LIMITED

This company · SC139326

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Boardwise (Edinburgh) Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	30/06/2016

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1992-07-15

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

Fairholme

Post Road

Tranent

EH33 1NF

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-29

Last: 2025-07-15

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

CORRIGAN, Carolyn Alison Shaw→

secretary · appointed 1992-07-15

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Active

CORRIGAN, Carolyn Alison Shaw→

director · ~63y · appointed 1992-07-15

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Active

STARK, Brian Thomas→

director · ~65y · appointed 1992-07-15

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Active

REID, Brian→

nominee-secretary · appointed 1992-07-15 · resigned 1992-07-15

Resigned

GROOM, Andrew William→

director · ~67y · appointed 1992-07-15 · resigned 1992-12-02

Resigned

GROOM, Veronica Martha→

director · ~66y · appointed 1992-12-02 · resigned 1998-09-01

Resigned

MABBOTT, Stephen→

nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1992-07-15 · resigned 1992-07-15

Resigned

STARK, Anne Violet→

director · ~61y · appointed 1992-07-15 · resigned 1998-09-01

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Standard security	2 properties	18/09/1992	—
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Floating charge	1 property	07/09/1992	—

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