AGAINST THE HEAD LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC468258 · ltd · incorporated 2014-01-24
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 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other activities auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 6 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
17 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
54 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees1100

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2024-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-01-25
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2023-11-30
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2023-11-30
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2023-11-30
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2023-07-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-01-27
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  11. 2022-01-25
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  12. 2021-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-01-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-08-26
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  15. 2020-01-24
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  16. 2020-01-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-07-18
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    TURNBULL, Christopher Edgar resigned
    director
  18. 2019-03-19
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  19. 2018-12-07
    ➕
    DALY, Robert Paul appointed
    director
  20. 2018-12-07
    ➕
    LAWSON, Henry Benedict appointed
    director
  21. 2018-12-07
    ➕
    PAUL, Stuart Watson appointed
    director
  22. 2018-12-07
    ➖
    PAUL, Alison Jane resigned
    director
  23. 2018-12-07
    ➕
    TURNBULL, Christopher Edgar appointed
    director
  24. 2014-10-01
    ➕
    NAPIER, Russell Allen Richard appointed
    director
  25. 2014-01-24
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    Company incorporated
    As AGAINST THE HEAD LIMITED
  26. 2014-01-24
    ➕
    PAUL, Alison Jane appointed
    director

Owner dependency

55/100
Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

55/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

D.C. Thomson & Company Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

🏛️
D.C. Thomson & Company Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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AGAINST THE HEAD LIMITED
This company · SC468258

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
D.C. Thomson & Company Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting07/12/2018
Mr Russell Allen Richard Napier
Individual · British · DOB 10/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mrs Alison Jane Paulceased 30/10/2018· significant influence
  • Mr Stuart Watson Paulceased 30/10/2018· significant influence

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
Incorporated2014-01-24
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC66190 — Other activities auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding

Registered office

Courier Buildings
2 Albert Square
Dundee
DD1 9QJ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-07
Last: 2026-01-24

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

DALY, Robert Paul→
director · ~69y · appointed 2018-12-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LAWSON, Henry Benedict→
director · ~56y · appointed 2018-12-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NAPIER, Russell Allen Richard→
director · ~62y · appointed 2014-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PAUL, Stuart Watson→
director · ~56y · appointed 2018-12-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PAUL, Alison Jane→
director · ~59y · appointed 2014-01-24 · resigned 2018-12-07
Resigned
TURNBULL, Christopher Edgar→
director · ~57y · appointed 2018-12-07 · resigned 2019-07-18
Resigned

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Recent filings (54 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-12-24
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-02-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-25
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-01-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-07-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-12-21
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-26