STIRLING INDOOR BOWLING CLUB LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC113528 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1988-09-23

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 Dec 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Operation of sports facilities

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

90 officers (5 active, 90 linked, 82 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

215 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

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 · FRS 102

Metric	2025-12-31	2024-12-31
Average employees	6	500

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (183 events)Click to expand

2026-04-02
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2025-06-23
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JOHNSTONE, Robert Russell resigned
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2025-06-23
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2025-06-12
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HINKS, Christopher Gary appointed
director
2025-01-23
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WRAY, James resigned
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2024-09-17
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2024-05-24
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STUART, Stephen resigned
director
2024-05-16
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2024-05-11
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CARRUTHERS MBE, John resigned
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2024-04-10
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STEWART, David John resigned
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2024-04-02
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2024-03-25
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MATHIESON, Fraser Thomas appointed
secretary
2024-03-25
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CHEYNE, Diane appointed
director
2024-03-25
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WALLACE, Jane Elizabeth appointed
director
2024-03-25
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JOHNSTONE, Robert Russell appointed
director
2024-03-25
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STUART, Stephen appointed
director
2024-03-25
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WRAY, James appointed
director
2024-03-21
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2024-03-20
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ROSE, Alex Douglas resigned
secretary
2024-03-20
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HARDIE, Jean Alexandra May resigned
director
2024-03-20
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SCOTT, Robert resigned
director
2024-03-19
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ROSE, Alex resigned
director
2023-08-28
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2023-03-17
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CARRUTHERS MBE, John appointed
director
2023-03-17
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MC CORMICK, Daniel resigned
director
2023-03-17
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MCLAUGHLIN, Brian resigned
director
2023-03-17
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STEWART, David John appointed
director
2022-08-16
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IRELAND, Colin Douglas resigned
director
2022-08-16
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MCLAUGHLIN, Brian appointed
director
2022-05-20
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MCLAUGHLIN, Brian resigned
director
2022-02-23
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MC PHERSON, James resigned
director
2022-02-22
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WATSON, Christina Mackay resigned
director
2021-06-30
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HARDIE, Jean Alexandra May appointed
director
2020-09-08
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MC CORMICK, Daniel appointed
director
2020-09-08
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MC PHERSON, James appointed
director

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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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
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

Incorporated1988-09-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC93110 — Operation of sports facilities

Registered office

Stirling Indoor Bowling Centre

Forth Street

Stirling

FK8 1UE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-14

Last: 2025-05-31