CAUSEWAY LEISURE SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
NI025140 · ltd · incorporated 1990-12-19
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 31.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£1.02M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Residents property management
Sector: Activities of households
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 31.6y

50/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 31.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 35/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
89 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,018,432

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£1.0m
↑ 3.0% YoY
Current Assets
£836k
↑ 6.0% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£204k£407k£611k£815k£1.0mDec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£1.02M£988.3k
Current assets£835.9k£788.6k
Net assets£1.02M£988.3k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
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  2. 2024-09-27
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  4. 2024-01-17
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  5. 2023-03-13
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  6. 2022-09-29
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  7. 2021-05-14
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  8. 2020-10-01
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  9. 2019-07-23
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  10. 2018-09-14
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  11. 2017-09-29
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  12. 2016-09-12
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  13. 2016-01-21
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  14. 2016-01-21
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  15. 2015-09-07
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  16. 2009-12-22
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    O'DONNELL (JNR), Colm, Mr. appointed
    director
  17. 2009-12-22
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    MCLAUGHLIN, John resigned
    director
  18. 2007-05-10
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    MCLAUGHLIN, John appointed
    director
  19. 2007-05-10
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    O'DONNELL, Josephine resigned
    director
  20. 2003-11-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Northern Bank LTD
  21. 1994-10-03
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Aib Group Northern Ireland PLC
  22. 1990-12-19
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    Company incorporated
    As CAUSEWAY LEISURE SERVICES LIMITED
  23. 1990-12-19
    ➕
    O'DONNELL, Colm, Mr. appointed
    secretary
  24. 1990-12-19
    ➕
    O'DONNELL, Colm, Mr. appointed
    director
  25. 1990-12-19
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    O'DONNELL, Josephine 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 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 75 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 35 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 35 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.)

Group structure

Causeway Estates (Roi) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Causeway Estates (Roi) Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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CAUSEWAY LEISURE SERVICES LIMITED
This company · NI025140

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Causeway Estates (Roi) Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control25/01/2022
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr. Colm O'Donnellceased 25/01/2022· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1990-12-19
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC98000 — Residents property management

Registered office

Unit 12b Pennyburn Business Park
Pennyburn Industrial Estate
Londonderry
Co Londonderry
BT48 0LU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-30
Last: 2026-01-16

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

O'DONNELL, Colm, Mr.→
secretary · appointed 1990-12-19
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Active
O'DONNELL, Colm, Mr.→
director · ~75y · appointed 1990-12-19
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Active
O'DONNELL (JNR), Colm, Mr.→
director · ~39y · appointed 2009-12-22
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Active
MCLAUGHLIN, John→
director · ~63y · appointed 2007-05-10 · resigned 2009-12-22
Resigned
O'DONNELL, Josephine→
director · ~65y · appointed 1990-12-19 · resigned 2007-05-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Northern Bank / Square West, Belfast
Northern Bank LTD / Square West, Belfast
Mortgage or charge1 property28/11/2003—
outstanding
Aib Group Northern Ireland
Aib Group Northern Ireland PLC
Charge1 property03/10/1994—
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Recent filings (89 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-09-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-01-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-17
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-01-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-03-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-05-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-10-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-17