AQUARIUS CONTACT CENTRES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC367855 · ltd · incorporated 2009-11-02
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 4.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Nov 2024
Net worth
£180.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Wired telecommunications activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 4.9y
75/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Charge age ~4.9 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (81/100)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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
40 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
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 · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £180,271
Cash YoY
+42%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£99k
↑ 42% YoY
Net Worth
£180k
↑ 54% YoY
Current Assets
£165k
↑ 38% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-11-30 | 2023-11-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £295.5k | £229.1k |
| Current assets | £165.4k | £120.1k |
| Cash | £99.2k | £69.8k |
| Debtors | £66.2k | £50.3k |
| Net assets | £180.3k | £116.9k |
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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See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
- 2025-08-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-08-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-11-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-08-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-27📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2021-07-22🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2021-07-02📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-06-01📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2021-05-26🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2021-05-21📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2020-11-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-07-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2016-08-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2015-12-18📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2009-11-02🏢Company incorporatedAs AQUARIUS CONTACT CENTRES LIMITED
- 2009-11-02➕FORFAR, Carol appointeddirector
- 2009-11-02➕FORFAR, Roderick Charles appointeddirector
Owner dependency
96/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
- +No director turnover: Company is 16 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
89/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Roderick Charles Forfar Individual · British · DOB 09/1971 · age 55 | 50–75% | 50–75% | board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Carol Forfar Individual · British · DOB 09/1949 · age 77 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 21/05/2021 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-11-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC61100 — Wired telecommunications activities
Registered office
Unit 1 Ground Floor Kingseat Road
Halbeath
Dunfermline
KY11 8RY
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-16
Last: 2025-11-02
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
FORFAR, Carol→
Activedirector · ~77y · appointed 2009-11-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
FORFAR, Roderick Charles→
Activedirector · ~55y · appointed 2009-11-02
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 22/07/2021 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC | A registered charge | — | 26/05/2021 | — |
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Recent filings (40 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-30
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-07-27
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-07-02
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-06-01
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-05-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-10