WHITLEY BAY ROCKCLIFF RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

07013974 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 2009-09-09

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.

🔒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

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of sport clubs

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

43 officers (9 active, 43 linked, 38 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

118 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 · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	8	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

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (99 events)Click to expand

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BRIGGS, Karl appointed
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2025-06-28
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MALARKEY, Shaun appointed
director
2025-06-28
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CHANDLER, Ian resigned
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KNOTT, Michael Leonard appointed
secretary
2024-06-22
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BLOOMFIELD, Richard appointed
director
2024-06-22
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KNOTT, Michael Leonard appointed
director
2024-06-22
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SUGDEN, Andrew Robert resigned
secretary
2024-06-22
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BAILEY, Stephen Ross resigned
director
2024-06-22
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CARRUTHERS, Scott resigned
director
2023-12-20
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TRAIN, Martin appointed
director
2023-06-17
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CHANDLER, Ian appointed
director
2022-12-20
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2022-11-16
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RICHARDSON, Ian resigned
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2022-06-19
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2022-06-18
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BRIGGS, Karl resigned
director
2021-10-28
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RICHARDSON, Ian appointed
director
2021-08-08
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PARTIS, Andrew George resigned
director
2021-07-30
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THORNTON, Neil Anthony resigned
director
2020-10-10
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PARTIS, Andrew George appointed
director
2019-11-12
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HILL, David James appointed
director
2018-06-23
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BRIGGS, Karl appointed
director
2018-06-23
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JORDAN, Duncan William resigned
director
2018-06-23
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THORNTON, Neil Anthony appointed
director
2017-09-14
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HAYTON, Neil Clemmet resigned
director
2017-09-07
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JORDAN, Duncan William appointed
director
2017-09-07
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MATHER, Noel resigned
director
2017-04-11
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TIMNEY, Daniel Thomas resigned
director
2016-06-23
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BAILEY, Stephen Ross appointed
director
2016-06-23
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BENNETT, David Anthony resigned
director
2016-06-23
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PARTIS, Andrew George resigned
director
2016-06-23
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SWINBURNE, David Andrew resigned
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

-8 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
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

Incorporated2009-09-09

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC93120 — Activities of sport clubs

Registered office

Club House

Lovaine Avenue

Whitley Bay

Tyne And Wear

NE25 8RW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-23

Last: 2025-09-09