CAMBRIDGE CHESTERTON INDOOR BOWLING CLUB LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03206633 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1996-06-03

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to May 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

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 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

60 officers (11 active, 60 linked, 55 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

189 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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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 · FRS 102

Metric	2025-05-31	2024-05-31
Average employees	900	600

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (131 events)Click to expand

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RUSSELL, Jackie appointed
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PARFEY, Sally Irene resigned
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FOSTER, Paul appointed
director
2024-02-27
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NIGHTINGALE, Andrew appointed
director
2021-10-04
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WALSHAM, Paul Anthony resigned
director
2021-08-08
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DEAN, Trevor appointed
director
2021-03-22
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CADMAN, Martin Brian appointed
director
2021-03-22
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PURVIS, Sally-Anne appointed
director
2020-05-26
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LONG, Digby Leonpaul resigned
director
2020-05-26
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STANLEY, Patricia resigned
director
2019-05-16
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PRESCOTT, Bernard resigned
director
2018-07-28
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BENTON, Alan Peter appointed
director
2018-07-28
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HARRIS, Dennis Eric resigned
director
2018-07-28
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WALSHAM, Paul Anthony appointed
director
2017-06-01
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LONG, Digby Leonpaul appointed
director
2017-06-01
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PARFEY, Sally Irene appointed
director
2017-05-31
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ABRAHAM, Roger resigned
director
2017-05-31
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FRASER, Catherine Henderson resigned
director
2015-07-17
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CLARKE, Alan appointed
director
2015-07-17
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BRICKNELL, David John, Dr resigned
director
2015-07-17
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HARRIS, Dennis Eric appointed
director
2015-07-16
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STANLEY, Patricia appointed
director
2013-07-17
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DOUGLAS, Michael Edward appointed
director
2012-09-16
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WILLIAMS, Marianna Izia Makiko Jade resigned
secretary
2012-05-31
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GRIGGS, Diane resigned
director
2012-02-13
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WILLIAMS, Marianna Izia Makiko Jade appointed
secretary
2012-02-13
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BRICKNELL, David John, Dr appointed
director
2012-02-13
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DOUGLAS, Janet Evelyn resigned
director
2012-02-13
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FRASER, Catherine Henderson appointed
director

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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

-11 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — 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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1996-06-03

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities

Registered office

Cambridge Chesterton Indoor Bowls Club

Logans Way

Cambridge

CB4 1BL

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-02-28

Last made up to: 2025-05-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-27

Last: 2026-05-13