LITTLE SCALLYWAGS NURSERY LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive
SC540022 · ltd · incorporated 2016-07-11
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 9.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£236.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Child day-care activities
Sector: Human health & social work
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 9.6y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 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
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
25 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
75
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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £236,443

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£236k
↑ 13% YoY
Current Assets
£7k
↓ 88% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£47k£95k£142k£189k£236kSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£323.0k£307.7k
Current assets£7.4k£60.9k
Net assets£236.4k£209.6k

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 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2025-05-29
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  3. 2024-06-27
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  4. 2023-03-30
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  5. 2022-06-27
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  6. 2021-08-02
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  7. 2020-06-30
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  8. 2019-07-16
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  9. 2019-07-16
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  10. 2019-06-04
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  11. 2018-03-14
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  12. 2018-03-08
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  13. 2017-03-29
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  14. 2017-03-21
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  15. 2016-10-25
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  16. 2016-10-20
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2016-10-05
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  18. 2016-10-03
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  19. 2016-07-11
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    Company incorporated
    As LITTLE SCALLYWAGS NURSERY LIMITED
  20. 2016-07-11
    ➕
    KAVANAGH, Victoria Ruth appointed
    director
  21. 2016-07-11
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    STONE, Ruth Margaret appointed
    director
  22. 2016-07-11
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    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

78/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 10 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Victoria Ruth Kavanagh
Individual · British · DOB 10/1974 · age 52
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control11/07/2016
Mrs Ruth Margaret Stone
Individual · British · DOB 03/1948 · age 78
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting11/07/2016

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
Incorporated2016-07-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC88910 — Child day-care activities

Registered office

42 Comrie Street
Crieff
Perth And Kinross
PH7 4AX
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-18
Last: 2025-07-04

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

KAVANAGH, Victoria Ruth→
director · ~52y · appointed 2016-07-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
STONE, Ruth Margaret→
director · ~78y · appointed 2016-07-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property21/03/2017—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property20/10/2016—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—03/10/2016—
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Recent filings (25 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-03-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-08-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-06-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-07-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-07-16