WESTERN LAWN TENNIS COMPANY, LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC012458 · ltd · incorporated 1922-11-28

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

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 27.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Dec 2024

Net worth

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Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of sport clubs

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and acceptable with review structure.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 70/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 27.9y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 27.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 38/100 — 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

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

23 officers (7 active, 23 linked, 21 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

124 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

100

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	2024-12-31	2023-12-31

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

• 3 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (50 events)Click to expand

2026-04-20
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2026-04-17
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officers · TM01
2026-04-14
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MCLELLAN, Margaret resigned
director
2025-09-07
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2025-04-19
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2025-04-19
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2025-04-17
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SCOTNEY, Alan resigned
director
2025-04-17
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WALKER, Ian resigned
director
2024-05-02
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accounts · AA
2023-09-14
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2023-04-21
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2023-04-21
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2023-04-20
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CAMPBELL, Ian Douglas appointed
director
2023-04-20
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MORRIS, Joseph, Dr appointed
director
2023-02-28
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2023-02-20
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TELFER, Norman Mckenzie resigned
director
2022-08-29
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accounts · AA
2021-08-21
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2020-09-01
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2020-03-31
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2020-03-28
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CRAIG, Neil Alexander appointed
director
2020-03-26
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2019-09-20
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2019-05-31
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MANN, William Mackendrick resigned
director
2019-03-26
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CROMBIE, Graeme Thomas Culley appointed
director
2019-03-26
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MCLELLAN, Margaret appointed
director
2019-03-25
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FRAME, William resigned
director
2013-12-01
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MACDONALD, Jennifer Jean appointed
director
2012-04-01
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THOMSON, Sheila Mclennan resigned
director
2010-04-20
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MANN, William Mackendrick appointed
director
2010-03-01
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WILSON, David resigned
director
2008-05-12
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SKINNER, Jane appointed
secretary
2008-05-12
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SCOTNEY, Alan resigned
secretary
2007-05-20
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MACNAIR, Dorothy Rachel resigned
director
2001-03-16
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Charge registered #4
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2001-01-10
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DOHERTY, Desmond Patrick resigned
director
2000-06-06
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FRAME, William appointed
director
2000-03-13
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DOHERTY, Desmond Patrick appointed
director
1999-11-18
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MORRIS, Joseph Martin resigned
director
1999-01-09
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FRANCE, Jessie Macewan resigned
director
1998-06-09
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Lta Nominees Limited
1996-03-26
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SKINNER, Jane Frances appointed
director
1996-03-26
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MORRIS, Joseph Martin appointed
director
1996-02-21
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CAMPBELL, Donald Robert resigned
director
1995-12-14
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MOUG, Alan Boyd resigned
director
1994-03-22
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CAMPBELL, Donald Robert appointed
director
1994-03-22
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FRAME, William resigned
director
1994-03-22
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MOUG, Alan Boyd appointed
director
1922-11-28
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Company incorporated
As WESTERN LAWN TENNIS COMPANY, LIMITED

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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 103 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

Western Lawn Tennis&Squash Club holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Western Lawn Tennis&Squash Club

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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WESTERN LAWN TENNIS COMPANY, LIMITED

This company · SC012458

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Western Lawn Tennis&Squash Club Corporate entity	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	01/01/2017

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

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SCOTTISH JEWISH ARCHIVES CENTRE→ SC210878 · est 2000	—	—	£120.5k	—	25y	83	79y
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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1922-11-28

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC93120 — Activities of sport clubs

Registered office

30 Hyndland Road

Glasgow

G12 9UR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-26

Last: 2026-04-12