BOBBY FIT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04945445 · ltd · incorporated 2003-10-28
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
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 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
57 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees00

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-08
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  2. 2024-07-24
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  3. 2023-10-20
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  4. 2022-07-27
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  5. 2021-07-14
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  6. 2020-07-28
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  7. 2019-07-31
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  8. 2018-07-10
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  9. 2017-07-19
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  10. 2016-07-28
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  11. 2015-12-22
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  12. 2015-07-28
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  13. 2014-12-23
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  14. 2014-07-30
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  15. 2004-06-18
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    MORRALL, Joanne Tracy appointed
    secretary
  16. 2004-06-18
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    WILKINSON, Stanley resigned
    secretary
  17. 2003-10-28
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    Company incorporated
    As BOBBY FIT LIMITED
  18. 2003-10-28
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    HEYES, Graham William appointed
    director
  19. 2003-10-28
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    MORRALL, Joanne Tracy appointed
    director
  20. 2003-10-28
    ➕
    WILKINSON, Stanley appointed
    secretary

Owner dependency

83/100
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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Graham William Heyes
Individual · British · DOB 12/1960 · age 66
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Ms Joanne Tracy Morrall
Individual · British · DOB 01/1970 · age 56
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2003-10-28
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities

Registered office

139 Red Bank Road
Bispham
Blackpool
Lancashire
FY2 9HZ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-18
Last: 2026-02-04

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

MORRALL, Joanne Tracy→
secretary · appointed 2004-06-18
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Active
HEYES, Graham William→
director · ~66y · appointed 2003-10-28
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Active
MORRALL, Joanne Tracy→
director · ~55y · appointed 2003-10-28
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Active
WILKINSON, Stanley→
secretary · appointed 2003-10-28 · resigned 2004-06-18
Resigned

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Recent filings (57 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-17
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accounts · AA
2025-07-08
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-24
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-09
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accounts · AA
2023-10-20
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-15
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accounts · AA
2022-07-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-04
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accounts · AA
2021-07-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-19
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accounts · AA
2019-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-02-04