ABBOTSBURY TOURISM LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
03838420 · ltd · incorporated 1999-09-09
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 5.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Botanical and zoological gardens and nature reserve activities
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 5.9y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 5.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (82/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
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Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 2 with DOB)
76
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
17 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
83 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
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 · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
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| Average employees | 3300 | 3200 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
- 2025-11-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-11-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-10-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2022-10-04📍move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-addressaddress · AD04
- 2021-11-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-07-24📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2020-07-22🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2019-11-12📄appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP03
- 2019-11-08📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2019-11-01➕SCRACE, Marcus Kingswood appointedsecretary
- 2019-10-31➖SANDERSON, Robert Ian resignedsecretary
- 2019-10-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-10-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2017-11-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2016-11-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2015-11-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2000-02-02➕TOWNSHEND, Charlotte Anne, The Honourable appointeddirector
- 2000-02-02➕TOWNSHEND, James Reginald appointeddirector
- 2000-02-02➕SANDERSON, Robert Ian appointedsecretary
- 2000-02-02➖WILSONS (COMPANY SECRETARIES) LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2000-02-02➖WILSONS (COMPANY AGENTS) LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
- 2000-02-02➖WILSONS (COMPANY SECRETARIES) LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1999-09-09🏢Company incorporatedAs ABBOTSBURY TOURISM LIMITED
- 1999-09-09➕WILSONS (COMPANY SECRETARIES) LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1999-09-09➕WILSONS (COMPANY AGENTS) LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1999-09-09➕WILSONS (COMPANY SECRETARIES) LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
91/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
96/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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
cleanNo 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 · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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The Honourable Charlotte Anne Townshend Individual · British · DOB 04/1955 · age 71 | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-09-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC91040 — Botanical and zoological gardens and nature reserve activities
Registered office
The Estate Office
Melbury Sampford
Dorchester
Dorset
DT2 0LF
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-05
Last: 2025-08-22
Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)
SCRACE, Marcus Kingswood→
Activesecretary · appointed 2019-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
TOWNSHEND, Charlotte Anne, The Honourable→
Activedirector · ~71y · appointed 2000-02-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
TOWNSHEND, James Reginald→
Activedirector · ~72y · appointed 2000-02-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SANDERSON, Robert Ian→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2000-02-02 · resigned 2019-10-31
WILSONS (COMPANY SECRETARIES) LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-09-09 · resigned 2000-02-02
WILSONS (COMPANY AGENTS) LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-09-09 · resigned 2000-02-02
WILSONS (COMPANY SECRETARIES) LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-09-09 · resigned 2000-02-02
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 22/07/2020 | — |
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Recent filings (83 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-12-02
move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-address
address · AD04
2022-10-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-11-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-08
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2020-07-24
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2019-11-12