OSPREY HOLIDAYS (TICKETS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC162396 · ltd · incorporated 1995-12-28
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Tour operator activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
85 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees200200

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2025-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-10-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-01-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-01-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2023-09-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-01-06
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  8. 2022-07-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-01-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-02-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-01-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-08-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-01-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2017-11-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-10-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2007-03-31
    ➖
    MILLAR, William resigned
    director
  17. 2004-06-23
    ➕
    BENNETT, Michael Blair appointed
    director
  18. 2000-09-05
    ➖
    BENNETT, David Blair resigned
    director
  19. 1995-12-28
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As OSPREY HOLIDAYS (TICKETS) LIMITED
  20. 1995-12-28
    ➕
    BENNETT, John Blair appointed
    secretary
  21. 1995-12-28
    ➕
    BENNETT, John Blair, My appointed
    director
  22. 1995-12-28
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  23. 1995-12-28
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  24. 1995-12-28
    ➕
    BENNETT, David Blair appointed
    director
  25. 1995-12-28
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  26. 1995-12-28
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    nominee-director
  27. 1995-12-28
    ➕
    MILLAR, William appointed
    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 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — 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 82 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 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 30 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

Osprey Holidays Limted is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

🏛️
Osprey Holidays Limted
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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OSPREY HOLIDAYS (TICKETS) LIMITED
This company · SC162396

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
Osprey Holidays Limted
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control28/12/2016

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1995-12-28
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC79120 — Tour operator activities

Registered office

21 Logie Mill
Edinburgh
EH7 4HG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-11
Last: 2025-12-28

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

BENNETT, John Blair→
secretary · appointed 1995-12-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BENNETT, John Blair, My→
director · ~82y · appointed 1995-12-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BENNETT, Michael Blair→
director · ~57y · appointed 2004-06-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-12-28 · resigned 1995-12-28
Resigned
BENNETT, David Blair→
director · ~77y · appointed 1995-12-28 · resigned 2000-09-05
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1995-12-28 · resigned 1995-12-28
Resigned
MILLAR, William→
director · ~79y · appointed 1995-12-28 · resigned 2007-03-31
Resigned

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Recent filings (85 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-10-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-09-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2023-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-07-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-01-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-02-23