AURORA TOURISM INVESTMENTS LTD

🌳Matureactive
03108640 · ltd · incorporated 1995-09-29
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
£-67.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other reservation service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
10 officers (2 active, 10 linked, 6 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
96 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £67,039

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
-£67k
↑ 35% YoY
Current Assets
£2k
↓ 44% YoY
Current Liabilities
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-£103k-£81k-£60k-£39k-£17k£4kDec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-12-312024-12-31
Total assets£140.3k£150.6k
Current assets£2.3k£4.1k
Net assets£-67.0k£-102.7k

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-09-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-06-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-02-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-02-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2024-02-23
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  7. 2024-02-14
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2023-03-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-09-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-09-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-05-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2021-05-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  13. 2020-12-07
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  14. 2020-08-13
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    NORMAN, John Eric resigned
    secretary
  15. 2020-08-13
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    NORMAN, John Eric resigned
    director
  16. 2020-08-13
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  17. 2020-08-13
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  18. 2020-08-08
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  19. 2020-08-08
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  20. 2020-08-08
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  21. 2015-10-01
    ➕
    BURT, Sarah Ellen appointed
    director
  22. 2015-10-01
    ➖
    CRISTINI, Gilles Marie resigned
    director
  23. 2012-10-25
    ➕
    CRISTINI, Gilles Marie appointed
    director
  24. 2012-10-25
    ➕
    NORMAN, John Eric appointed
    director
  25. 2005-09-01
    ➖
    BURT, David Lyndon resigned
    director
  26. 2005-09-01
    ➖
    BURT, Prunella Mary resigned
    director
  27. 2004-10-29
    ➖
    BURT, Prunella Mary resigned
    secretary
  28. 2004-10-29
    ➕
    NORMAN, John Eric appointed
    secretary
  29. 2002-07-15
    ➕
    BURT, Lyndon Oliver Antrobus appointed
    director
  30. 1995-09-29
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AURORA TOURISM INVESTMENTS LTD
  31. 1995-09-29
    ➕
    BURT, Prunella Mary appointed
    secretary
  32. 1995-09-29
    ➕
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 1995-09-29
    ➖
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  34. 1995-09-29
    ➕
    BURT, David Lyndon appointed
    director
  35. 1995-09-29
    ➕
    BURT, Prunella Mary appointed
    director
  36. 1995-09-29
    ➕
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  37. 1995-09-29
    ➖
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Aurora Capital And Investment Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

🏛️
Aurora Capital And Investment Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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AURORA TOURISM INVESTMENTS LTD
This company · 03108640

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Aurora Capital And Investment Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1995-09-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC79909 — Other reservation service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Huish House Mells Lane
Kilmersdon
Bath
Somerset
BA3 5SQ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-05
Last: 2026-01-22

Officers (2 active · 8 resigned)

BURT, Lyndon Oliver Antrobus→
director · ~61y · appointed 2002-07-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURT, Sarah Ellen→
director · ~62y · appointed 2015-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURT, Prunella Mary→
secretary · appointed 1995-09-29 · resigned 2004-10-29
Resigned
NORMAN, John Eric→
secretary · appointed 2004-10-29 · resigned 2020-08-13
Resigned
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-09-29 · resigned 1995-09-29
Resigned
BURT, David Lyndon→
director · ~96y · appointed 1995-09-29 · resigned 2005-09-01
Resigned
BURT, Prunella Mary→
director · ~88y · appointed 1995-09-29 · resigned 2005-09-01
Resigned
CRISTINI, Gilles Marie→
director · ~79y · appointed 2012-10-25 · resigned 2015-10-01
Resigned
NORMAN, John Eric→
director · ~79y · appointed 2012-10-25 · resigned 2020-08-13
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1995-09-29 · resigned 1995-09-29
Resigned

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Recent filings (96 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-05-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-09-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-10
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-02-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-02-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-02-23
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-02-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-09