PODFATHER LTD

🌳Matureactive

SC205666 · ltd · incorporated 2000-03-30

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 26.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

£1.48M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other information technology service activities

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 26.1y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 26.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 28/100 — 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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

19 officers (8 active, 19 linked, 14 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

129 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £1,479,176

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.4m

Net Worth

£1.5m

Current Assets

£2.3m

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30
Total assets	£1.48M	—
Current assets	£2.31M	—
Cash	£1.40M	—
Debtors	£911.5k	—
Net assets	£1.48M	—
Average employees	—	4800

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (52 events)Click to expand

2025-12-22
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accounts · AA
2025-06-25
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officers · AP01
2025-06-20
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MORRELL, Richard appointed
director
2025-04-14
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officers · AP01
2025-04-10
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officers · AP01
2025-04-10
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officers · AP01
2025-04-01
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accounts · AA
2025-03-27
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MILROY, David Alan, Dr appointed
director
2025-03-27
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ROY, Jade appointed
director
2025-03-27
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WOTHERSPOON, Andrew appointed
director
2024-12-17
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ROY, Jade appointed
secretary
2024-12-17
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HEARNS, Katherine resigned
secretary
2024-12-17
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HEARNS, Katherine resigned
director
2024-12-17
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officers · AP03
2024-12-17
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officers · TM01
2024-12-17
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2024-12-02
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-10-11
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-10-04
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BROOM, Alastair Scott resigned
director
2023-12-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-07
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officers · AP01
2022-02-02
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officers · AP01
2022-02-02
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officers · AP03
2022-02-01
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GEARY, Jane Elizabeth appointed
director
2022-02-01
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HEARNS, Katherine appointed
secretary
2022-02-01
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HEARNS, Katherine appointed
director
2021-12-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-01
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address · AD01
2020-12-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-02-05
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HODGSON, David resigned
director
2015-10-30
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HODGSON, David appointed
director
2011-11-30
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MORRIS, Alasdair Cameron resigned
director
2009-12-02
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MCCREADIE, Colin appointed
director
2009-12-02
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MCCREADIE, William appointed
director
2009-06-26
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HOUSTON, Graham Curtis resigned
secretary
2004-09-15
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MORRIS, Alasdair Cameron appointed
director
2003-12-23
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Charge satisfied #1
2003-11-25
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BROOM, Alastair Scott resigned
secretary
2003-11-25
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HOUSTON, Graham Curtis appointed
secretary
2003-11-25
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MCCREADIE, William resigned
director
2000-03-31
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Farmfoods Limited
2000-03-30
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Company incorporated
As PODFATHER LTD
2000-03-30
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BROOM, Alastair Scott appointed
secretary
2000-03-30
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BRODIES WS appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-03-30
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BRODIES WS resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2000-03-30
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BROOM, Alastair Scott appointed
director
2000-03-30
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CAMPBELL, Alistair Carnegie appointed
nominee-director
2000-03-30
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CAMPBELL, Alistair Carnegie resigned
nominee-director
2000-03-30
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MCCREADIE, William appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 52 events

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

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
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

Epod Solutions Group Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Epod Solutions Group Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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PODFATHER LTD

This company · SC205666

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
Epod Solutions Group Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2000-03-30

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities

Registered office

Verdant

2 Redheughs Rigg

Edinburgh

EH12 9DQ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-13

Last: 2026-03-30