COLINSBURGH GOLF LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC135648 · ltd · incorporated 1991-12-18
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 33.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
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 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 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

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 33.8y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 33.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
103 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Nov 2023Nov 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-11-302023-11-30
Average employees900900

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals 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
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-08-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2024-06-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-08-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-08-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-04-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2021-08-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-04-06
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  9. 2021-04-06
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  10. 2020-04-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-08-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-07-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-03-28
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  14. 2018-03-27
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  15. 2018-03-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  16. 2018-03-16
    ➕
    THORNTONS LAW LLP appointed
    corporate-secretary
  17. 2018-03-16
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    PAGAN OSBORNE resigned
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2011-01-27
    ➕
    BONDE, Carl-Michael Wilhelm, St Clair appointed
    director
  19. 2006-03-09
    ➖
    CCW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  20. 2006-03-09
    ➕
    PAGAN OSBORNE appointed
    corporate-secretary
  21. 1993-01-26
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Scottish Enterpise Fife Limited
  22. 1993-01-26
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  23. 1992-09-29
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    Charge satisfied #1
  24. 1992-09-02
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  25. 1992-07-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  26. 1992-04-08
    ➕
    BONDE, Knut Harald Jons St Clair appointed
    director
  27. 1992-04-08
    ➖
    CLARKE, John Bernard resigned
    nominee-director
  28. 1991-12-18
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    Company incorporated
    As COLINSBURGH GOLF LIMITED
  29. 1991-12-18
    ➕
    CCW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  30. 1991-12-18
    ➕
    CLARKE, John Bernard appointed
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 80 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 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 34 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

Colinsburgh Charleton Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Colinsburgh Charleton Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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COLINSBURGH GOLF LIMITED
This company · SC135648

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
Colinsburgh Charleton Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares02/04/2021
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Baron Knut Harald Jons St Clair Bondeceased 02/04/2021· 75-100% shares

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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8 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
Incorporated1991-12-18
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC93110 — Operation of sports facilities

Registered office

Charleton House
Colinsburgh
Leven
Fife
KY9 1HG
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-24
Last: 2025-08-10

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

THORNTONS LAW LLP→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2018-03-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BONDE, Carl-Michael Wilhelm, St Clair→
director · ~45y · appointed 2011-01-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BONDE, Knut Harald Jons St Clair→
director · ~80y · appointed 1992-04-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CCW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1991-12-18 · resigned 2006-03-09
Resigned
PAGAN OSBORNE→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2006-03-09 · resigned 2018-03-16
Resigned
CLARKE, John Bernard→
nominee-director · ~71y · appointed 1991-12-18 · resigned 1992-04-08
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
3
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Scottish Enterpise Fife
Scottish Enterpise Fife Limited
Standard security1 property26/01/1993—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Standard security1 property26/01/1993—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Floating charge1 property02/09/1992—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Floating charge1 property10/07/199229/09/1992
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Recent filings (103 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-20
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-08-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-10
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-19
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-04-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2021-04-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-04-06