DEESIDE GLIDING CLUB (ABERDEENSHIRE) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC034867 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1960-02-10

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

—

year to Dec 2025

Net worth

£755.2k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other sports activities

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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

1 live charge · oldest 34.1y

45/100

under pressure

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

· Oldest live charge is 34.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

88 officers (9 active, 88 linked, 70 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

229 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £755,169

Cash YoY

-28%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£204k

↓ 28% YoY

Net Worth

£755k

↑ 4.5% YoY

Current Assets

£270k

↓ 21% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-12-31	2024-12-31
Total assets	£755.4k	£723.1k
Current assets	£269.6k	£342.0k
Cash	£204.0k	£285.2k
Debtors	£42.0k	£35.3k
Net assets	£755.2k	£722.8k

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

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 4 officers
• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (180 events)Click to expand

2026-04-14
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2025-12-29
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JORDAN, Charlie appointed
director
2025-12-29
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2025-11-09
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officers · TM01
2025-07-17
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MACGREGOR, Susan resigned
director
2025-06-08
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accounts · AA
2024-11-14
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officers · TM01
2024-11-14
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officers · TM01
2024-11-10
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CROUCH, Kris resigned
director
2024-11-10
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MACDONALD, Iain Eric resigned
director
2024-09-20
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accounts · AA
2024-07-31
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2024-07-28
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2024-07-28
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2024-07-13
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FAULKNER, Peter appointed
secretary
2024-07-13
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FAULKNER, Peter James appointed
director
2024-07-13
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DAVIDSON, Bruce resigned
secretary
2024-07-13
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BROOKER, Richard John, Dr resigned
director
2024-07-13
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GORRELL, David resigned
director
2024-07-13
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JENSEN, Susan Lyn resigned
director
2024-07-13
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MACGREGOR, Susan appointed
director
2023-09-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-22
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2023-07-17
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officers · TM02
2023-07-17
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officers · AP03
2023-07-15
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DAVIDSON, Bruce appointed
director
2023-07-15
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DAVIDSON, Bruce appointed
secretary
2023-07-15
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KENYON-ROBERTS, Stephen Michael resigned
secretary
2023-07-15
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INNES, David Stephen resigned
director
2023-07-15
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JENSEN, Susan Lyn appointed
director
2022-05-28
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GORRELL, David appointed
director
2022-05-28
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HOLLOWAY, Graham Kenneth resigned
director
2021-08-28
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BROOKER, Richard John, Dr appointed
director
2021-08-14
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PELL, Frederick Charles resigned
director
2020-08-15
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WHYBROW, Stephen, Dr appointed
director
2020-08-15
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GARDEN, Roy Malcolm resigned
director
2020-03-01
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KENYON-ROBERTS, Stephen Michael appointed
director
2020-03-01
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KENYON-ROBERTS, Stephen Michael appointed
secretary
2020-03-01
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DOUGLAS, Glen resigned
director
2019-11-02
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DOUGLAS, Glen resigned
secretary
2019-09-14
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MARTIN, Timothy James appointed
director
2019-09-14
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SHAW, Neil Malcolm resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 180 events

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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Incorporated1960-02-10

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities

Registered office

Aboyne Airfield

Dinnet

Aboyne

Aberdeenshire

AB34 5LB

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-13

Last: 2026-03-30