CANTERBURY & DISTRICT INDOOR BOWLING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01520658 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1980-10-07

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 33.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£275.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Operation of sports facilities

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

3 live charges · oldest 33.8y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 33.8 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 (78/100)

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

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

50 officers (10 active, 50 linked, 46 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

186 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 105 (micro)

Positive net assets

Net assets £275,435

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£275k

↑ 6.3% YoY

Current Assets

£201k

↓ 4.6% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Total assets	£295.9k	£259.1k
Current assets	£201.2k	£211.0k
Net assets	£275.4k	£259.1k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (103 events)Click to expand

2026-02-09
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2025-07-08
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CARTER, Derek John appointed
director
2025-04-17
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2025-04-16
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2025-04-16
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2025-04-08
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O'DELL, Maurice resigned
director
2024-11-28
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2024-11-28
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2024-11-17
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BARTHOLOMEW, Leslie Henry resigned
director
2024-11-17
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WARRICKER, Christopher resigned
director
2024-08-23
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2024-08-20
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REAL, Michael James appointed
director
2024-08-20
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WHITEWAY, Charlotte Kate appointed
director
2024-05-01
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BARTLETT, David appointed
director
2024-05-01
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JUDD, Adrian David appointed
director
2024-05-01
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NEWMAN, Eva Foster resigned
director
2023-10-18
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2022-11-21
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2022-11-21
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2022-11-21
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2022-11-10
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DEW, Christopher Laird Anthony resigned
director
2022-11-08
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BARTHOLOMEW, Leslie Henry appointed
director
2022-11-01
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MCCONOMY, Madeline resigned
director
2022-10-09
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2021-12-01
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2021-12-01
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2021-11-15
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GRAY, Janet resigned
director
2021-11-09
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MASTERS, Doreen Rose resigned
director
2021-10-27
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MARSH, Bernard Roy appointed
director
2021-10-27
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2021-09-21
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2020-03-26
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BARTHOLOMEW, Leslie Henry resigned
director
2019-09-27
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KENT, Alan Charles resigned
director
2019-09-27
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MCCONOMY, Madeline appointed
director
2019-06-04
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AVIS, Hilary resigned
director
2019-06-04
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CHAPMAN, Colin resigned
director
2019-06-04
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CHEESMAN, John Robert resigned
director
2019-06-04
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DEW, Christopher Laird Anthony appointed
director
2019-06-04
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WARRICKER, Christopher appointed
director
2019-02-17
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BARTHOLOMEW, Leslie Henry appointed
director
2018-02-17
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O'DELL, Maurice appointed
director
2018-02-14
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GRAY, Janet appointed
director
2018-02-14
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HUDSON, Eric George resigned
director
2016-11-01
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AVIS, Hilary appointed
director
2015-04-07
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TURNER, Janine Yvonne appointed
director
2014-09-29
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FIELD, Carolyn appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 103 events

Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-9 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr David John Turner Individual · British · DOB 05/1953 · age 73	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1980-10-07

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC93110 — Operation of sports facilities

Registered office

The Oyster Indoor Bowls Centre

The Harbour

Whistable

Kent

CT5 1AB

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-29

Last: 2025-11-15