ESSEX YACHT CLUB LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

00246431 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1930-03-10

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 50.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

£429.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other sports activities

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 50.0y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 50.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 38/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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

100 officers (15 active, 100 linked, 90 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

301 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 £429,397

Net assets shrinking

Down £15,678 YoY

Cash YoY

+30%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£37k

↑ 30% YoY

Net Worth

£429k

↓ 3.5% YoY

Current Assets

£56k

↑ 29% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30
Total assets	£469.9k	£478.1k
Current assets	£56.5k	£43.6k
Cash	£36.9k	£28.3k
Debtors	£9.2k	£7.0k
Net assets	£429.4k	£445.1k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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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 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (194 events)Click to expand

2026-03-13
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TAYLOR, Darren Frank appointed
director
2026-01-15
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2025-04-04
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TOTHILL, Louise appointed
director
2025-04-04
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2025-03-06
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2025-03-03
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2025-02-21
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PILGRIM, Alexander James appointed
director
2025-02-21
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WATSON, Mark appointed
director
2025-02-21
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LAWRENCE, Simon resigned
director
2025-02-21
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RICHARDSON, James Edward resigned
director
2025-01-20
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2024-02-23
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DEAN, Jess appointed
secretary
2024-02-23
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DEAN, Jess appointed
director
2024-02-23
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LIVERMORE, Sarah resigned
secretary
2024-02-23
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BROOKER, Peter James resigned
director
2024-02-23
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GILSON, Paul David resigned
director
2024-02-23
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LIVERMORE, Sarah Ellen resigned
director
2024-02-23
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MONK, Gail Helena Cooper resigned
director
2024-02-23
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RICHARDSON, James Edward appointed
director
2024-01-18
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accounts · AA
2023-03-13
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2023-03-03
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2023-03-03
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2023-02-24
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BOOYSEN, Sally appointed
director
2023-02-24
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BROWN, Anna appointed
director
2023-02-24
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RICHARDSON, James Edward resigned
director
2022-02-25
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STENHOUSE, Andrea appointed
director
2022-02-25
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VEITCH, Jack appointed
director
2022-02-25
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LAWRENCE, Simon appointed
director
2022-02-25
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RICHARDSON, James Edward appointed
director
2021-02-26
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LIVERMORE, Sarah appointed
secretary
2021-02-26
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MITCHELL, Anna resigned
secretary
2021-02-26
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LIVERMORE, Sarah Ellen appointed
director
2021-02-26
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MITCHELL, Anna resigned
director
2020-03-03
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DENNIS, Laurence appointed
director
2020-03-03
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REDMAN, Paul Neville resigned
director
2020-01-23
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MITCHELL, Anna appointed
secretary

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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

-14 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — 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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1930-03-10

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities

Registered office

Mv Wilton

Leigh On Sea

Essex

SS9 1BD

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-25

Last: 2026-02-11