AZILO TRAINING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC465552 · ltd · incorporated 2013-12-10

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 12.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Feb 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other education n.e.c.

Sector: Education

Investor take

Pursue

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

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 12.0y

70/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 12.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· 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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

9 officers (6 active, 9 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

48 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-02-27	2024-02-27
Average employees	2100	1800

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

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand

2025-11-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-11-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-11-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-11-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-06-17
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-06-17
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-11-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-03-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-04
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capital-alter-shares-subdivision
capital · SH02
2020-07-01
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2020-07-01
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2020-01-23
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-01-13
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ROBINSON, Madeline resigned
director
2019-11-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-13
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2019-04-10
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certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2019-04-10
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2019-03-18
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mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2019-03-18
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Charge satisfied #2
2019-03-01
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2019-02-25
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GRANT, Louise appointed
director
2019-02-19
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Charge satisfied #1
2019-02-18
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ROBINSON, Madeline appointed
director
2018-06-07
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MCGHEE, Susan Jane resigned
director
2018-01-23
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AITCHISON, Douglas resigned
director
2015-04-13
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AITCHISON, Douglas appointed
director
2014-12-10
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Rockpool (Security Trustee) Limited (as Security Trustee)
2014-04-29
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Santander UK PLC
2013-12-10
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Company incorporated
As AZILO TRAINING LIMITED
2013-12-10
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LYONS, Thomas appointed
secretary
2013-12-10
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LYONS, Lesley appointed
director
2013-12-10
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LYONS, Thomas appointed
director
2013-12-10
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SCOTT, Gemma appointed
director
2013-12-10
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SCOTT, Graeme John appointed
director
2013-12-10
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MCGHEE, Susan Jane appointed
director

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 12 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Graeme John Scott Individual · British · DOB 05/1961 · age 65	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.

🔒Co-director network graph

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

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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

Typeltd

Incorporated2013-12-10

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC85590 — Other education n.e.c.

Registered office

Suite 6a Newhailes Business Park

Newhailes Road

Musselburgh

East Lothian

EH21 6RH

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-11-27

Last made up to: 2025-02-27

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-06

Last: 2025-11-22