ACKLAM RUGBY CLUB LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01525443 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1980-10-30

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 36.6y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£59.9k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other sports activities

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Deleverage or restructure. Leverage at 100% of assets — consider sale of non-core assets or equity injection. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 36.6y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 36.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 28/100 — 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

31 officers (3 active, 31 linked, 25 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

134 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £59,877

High leverage

Liabilities are 100% of total assets

Leverage

100%

Liabilities / Total assets

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£60k

↑ 860% YoY

Current Assets

£65k

↓ 9.0% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Total assets	£165.0k	£117.9k
Current assets	£64.5k	£70.9k
Net assets	£59.9k	£-7.9k

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (73 events)Click to expand

2026-01-31
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2025-09-02
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2025-09-02
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officers · TM01
2025-08-20
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FAINT, Timothy resigned
director
2025-08-03
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SULLIVAN, Gary appointed
director
2025-05-01
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officers · TM01
2025-05-01
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officers · TM02
2025-04-29
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SPRINGHALL, Darren resigned
secretary
2025-04-29
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SPRINGHALL, Darren resigned
director
2025-01-08
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accounts · AA
2024-06-10
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2024-06-01
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KELLY, Raymond appointed
director
2024-01-09
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accounts · AA
2024-01-02
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officers · TM01
2023-12-31
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HILTON, Philip resigned
director
2023-10-26
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officers · TM01
2023-09-30
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MUNKLEY, Gavin resigned
director
2023-01-27
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accounts · AA
2023-01-03
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2023-01-01
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DUNN, Andrew appointed
director
2022-06-29
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2022-06-29
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2022-06-29
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2022-06-15
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FAINT, Timothy appointed
director
2022-06-15
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HILTON, Philip appointed
director
2022-06-15
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MUNKLEY, Gavin appointed
director
2022-06-08
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-06-08
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2022-06-01
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MCLOUGHLIN, Michael resigned
director
2022-06-01
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TAYLOR, Leonard resigned
director
2021-11-01
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officers · TM01
2021-10-27
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COLLINS, Mark resigned
director
2021-08-31
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2021-05-21
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2021-05-21
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Charge satisfied #1
2020-12-01
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MCLOUGHLIN, Michael appointed
director
2020-12-01
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SPRINGHALL, Darren appointed
director
2020-12-01
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TAYLOR, Leonard appointed
director
2020-10-29
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COLLINS, Mark appointed
director
2020-10-29
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KELLY, Raymond resigned
director
2019-06-18
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ATKIN, Paula resigned
secretary
2019-06-18
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SPRINGHALL, Darren appointed
secretary
2019-06-18
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ATKIN, Paula resigned
director
2004-05-29
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ATKIN, Paula appointed
secretary
2004-05-29
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PEARSON, Paul William resigned
secretary
2004-05-29
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ATKIN, Paula appointed
director
2004-05-29
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PEARSON, Paul William resigned
director
2003-06-30
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KELLY, Raymond appointed
director
2003-06-30
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ROBINSON, Keith resigned
director
2002-06-10
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PEARSON, Paul William appointed
secretary

Showing most recent 50 of 73 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

+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

🔒Co-director network graph

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1980-10-30

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities

Registered office

Talbot Park

Saltersgill Avenue

Middlesbrough

TS4 3PR

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-26

Last: 2025-06-12

Officers (3 active · 28 resigned)

DUNN, Andrew→

director · ~40y · appointed 2023-01-01

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

KELLY, Raymond→

director · ~82y · appointed 2024-06-01

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SULLIVAN, Gary→

director · ~64y · appointed 2025-08-03

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

ATKIN, Paula→

secretary · appointed 2004-05-29 · resigned 2019-06-18

Resigned

HAITH, Kester John→

secretary · appointed 2000-05-16 · resigned 2002-05-26

Resigned

HALL, David John→

secretary · resigned 1993-05-12

Resigned

PEARSON, Paul William→

secretary · appointed 2002-06-10 · resigned 2004-05-29

Resigned

PEARSON, Paul William→

secretary · appointed 1993-06-01 · resigned 2000-05-16

Resigned

SPRINGHALL, Darren→

secretary · appointed 2019-06-18 · resigned 2025-04-29

Resigned

ASHTON, Geoffrey→

director · ~79y · resigned 1999-05-19

Resigned

ATKIN, Paula→

director · ~55y · appointed 2004-05-29 · resigned 2019-06-18

Resigned

BROWN, Peter→

director · ~77y · resigned 1992-09-25

Resigned

COLLINS, Mark→

director · ~55y · appointed 2020-10-29 · resigned 2021-10-27

Resigned

FAINT, Timothy→

director · ~57y · appointed 2022-06-15 · resigned 2025-08-20

Resigned

HAITH, Kester John→

director · ~81y · appointed 2000-05-16 · resigned 2002-05-26

Resigned

HALL, David John→

director · ~80y · resigned 2000-05-16

Resigned

HALL, David Lee→

director · ~63y · resigned 1993-05-12

Resigned

HILTON, Philip→

director · ~42y · appointed 2022-06-15 · resigned 2023-12-31

Resigned

KELLY, Raymond→

director · ~82y · appointed 2003-06-30 · resigned 2020-10-29

Resigned

KELLY, Raymond→

director · ~82y · resigned 1996-05-08

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Scottish & Newcastle Breweries PLC	Fixed and floating charge	1 property	02/11/1989	21/05/2021

Recent filings (134 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2026-01-31

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2025-09-02

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2025-09-02

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-07-07

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2025-05-01

termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM02

2025-05-01

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-01-08

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-07-02

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2024-06-10

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-01-09

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2024-01-02

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2023-10-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-06-20

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-01-27

appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date

officers · AP01

2023-01-03