ABBEY LEISURE AMUSEMENT MACHINES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
02187529 · ltd · incorporated 1987-11-03
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 36.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Public houses and bars
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 5 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 36.0y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 36.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (77/100)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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
95 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | — | £111.8k |
| Current assets | — | £6.1k |
| Net assets | — | £82.6k |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
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 (19 events)Click to expand
- 2026-02-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-10-30📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-10-30📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-10-30📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-10-30📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-01-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-05-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-05-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-04-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-07-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2019-06-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-05-01📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2018-05-01🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Teresa Winifred Wright
- 2017-07-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2013-09-14🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 1990-05-03🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 1987-11-03🏢Company incorporatedAs ABBEY LEISURE AMUSEMENT MACHINES LIMITED
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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 69 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
66/100
Strong succession signalMultiple 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.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 39 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
Red flags
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Stephen Robinson Individual · British · DOB 01/1957 · age 69 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Derek Gordon Wright Individual · British · DOB 11/1957 · age 69 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1987-11-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC56302 — Public houses and bars
Registered office
East View Farm Vicarage Lane
Newton
Preston
PR4 3RX
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-21
Last: 2025-06-07
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
Active
Active
Active
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Teresa Winifred Wright / Bernadette Mary Robinson / Derek Gordon Wright / Stephen Robinson | A registered charge | 2 properties | 01/05/2018 | — | |
| satisfied | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | Mortgage | 1 property | 03/05/1990 | 14/09/2013 |
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Recent filings (95 total)
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
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2025-10-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-10-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-10
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2025-01-20
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2024-01-10
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2023-06-08
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2023-05-22
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