BURGHAM PARK LEISURE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
09786760 · ltd · incorporated 2015-09-21
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 Sept 2025
Net worth
£2.61M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation
Sector: Accommodation & food service
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 56101Licenced restaurants
  • 56302Public houses and bars
  • 93110Operation of sports facilities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -59% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 9.8y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 4 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
13 connected companies via shared directors
84
Filing history
34 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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,607,497
Net assets shrinking
Down £183,279 YoY
Cash draining
Cash down 59% YoY
Cash YoY
-59%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£276k
↓ 59% YoY
Net Worth
£2.6m
↓ 6.6% YoY
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£558k£1.1m£1.7m£2.2m£2.8mSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets—£2.79M
Current assets—£2.14M
Cash£275.9k£669.2k
Debtors—£1.45M
Net assets£2.61M£2.79M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-30
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  2. 2025-06-30
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  3. 2024-09-30
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  4. 2023-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-09-29
    ➕
    FOSTER-HIRD, Nicola Jane appointed
    director
  6. 2022-09-29
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    officers · AP01
  7. 2022-05-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-02-11
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    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  9. 2021-06-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-05-12
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-03-28
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  12. 2018-05-04
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-12-19
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  14. 2017-11-08
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    mortgage · MR05
  15. 2017-03-20
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-03-03
    ➕
    ARMSTRONG, David Neil appointed
    secretary
  17. 2017-02-10
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    KIELY, William David resigned
    secretary
  18. 2017-02-10
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    KIELY, William David resigned
    director
  19. 2017-02-09
    ➕
    ARMSTRONG, David Neil appointed
    director
  20. 2016-10-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Savage Silk Limited
  21. 2015-09-21
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    Company incorporated
    As BURGHAM PARK LEISURE LIMITED
  22. 2015-09-21
    ➕
    KIELY, William David appointed
    secretary
  23. 2015-09-21
    ➕
    KIELY, William David appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

56/100
Strong succession signal

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

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.

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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr James Russell Foster
Individual · British · DOB 01/1948 · age 78
75–100%
—75-100% shares09/02/2017
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Ruth Murphyceased 09/02/2017· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Noel Murphyceased 09/02/2017· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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
Incorporated2015-09-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

Temple Chambers
Douro Terrace
Sunderland
SR2 7DX
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-15
Last: 2026-03-01

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

ARMSTRONG, David Neil→
secretary · appointed 2017-03-03
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Active
ARMSTRONG, David Neil→
director · ~66y · appointed 2017-02-09
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Active
FOSTER-HIRD, Nicola Jane→
director · ~54y · appointed 2022-09-29
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Active
KIELY, William David→
secretary · appointed 2015-09-21 · resigned 2017-02-10
Resigned
KIELY, William David→
director · ~66y · appointed 2015-09-21 · resigned 2017-02-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Savage Silk
Savage Silk Limited
A registered charge1 property14/10/2016—
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Recent filings (34 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-06-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-06
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accounts · AA
2025-06-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-01
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officers · AP01
2022-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-01
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2022-02-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-22