BEMBRIDGE POWERBOAT TRAINING LTD

📉Decliningactive
07684425 · ltd · incorporated 2011-06-27
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
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
  • · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
  • · Currently "declining"
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£121.9k
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Sports and recreation education
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). 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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
40 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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
Loss-making
Loss before tax £55,197
Revenue decline
Turnover down 28% YoY
Turnover YoY
-28%
Year on year

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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Turnover£121.9k£169.4k
Gross profit£59.9k£99.1k
Operating profit£-53.7k£-30.2k
Profit before tax£-55.2k£-31.4k
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.

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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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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-08-02
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  7. 2022-04-01
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    dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
    dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
  8. 2022-03-08
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  9. 2021-09-15
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  10. 2021-09-14
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  11. 2021-04-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-05-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-03-18
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  15. 2019-03-06
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  16. 2019-03-05
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  17. 2018-03-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2011-06-27
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    Company incorporated
    As BEMBRIDGE POWERBOAT TRAINING LTD
  19. 2011-06-27
    ➕
    SQUIBB, Andrew James appointed
    secretary
  20. 2011-06-27
    ➕
    MCLAGAN, Susan Maureen appointed
    director
  21. 2011-06-27
    ➕
    SQUIBB, Trevor John appointed
    director

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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ms Sue Mclagan
Individual · British · DOB 06/1955 · age 71
25–50%
—25-50% shares18/03/2019

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
Incorporated2011-06-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC85510 — Sports and recreation education

Registered office

Woodnutts Yard
The Duver
St Helens
Isle Of Wight
PO33 1YB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-11
Last: 2025-06-27

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

SQUIBB, Andrew James→
secretary · appointed 2011-06-27
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Active
MCLAGAN, Susan Maureen→
director · ~71y · appointed 2011-06-27
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Active
SQUIBB, Trevor John→
director · ~68y · appointed 2011-06-27
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Active

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Recent filings (40 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-26
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2022-08-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-01
dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspended
dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
2022-04-01
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2022-03-08
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2021-09-15
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2021-09-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-13