APPLECROSS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

🌳Matureactive
SC208619 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2000-06-29
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.
Why now
Window opening · medium confidence
More negotiable than before — 1 signals weakening over the last 30 days.
  • · Hygiene score: 90 → 85
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture worsened over the last 30 days — 1 negative signal vs 0 positive.

  • ↓Hygiene score: 90 → 85
Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Museum activities
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). 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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
10 officers (6 active, 10 linked, 9 with DOB)
88
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees00

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-01
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2025-10-30
    ➖
    MACRAE, Anabel Janet resigned
    director
  3. 2025-06-05
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-07-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-08-10
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  8. 2021-08-03
    ➕
    GILLIES, Alan Spencer appointed
    director
  9. 2021-07-28
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-07-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-07-02
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  12. 2020-05-31
    ➖
    MCCOWAN, Alistair resigned
    director
  13. 2019-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-07-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-08-15
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2017-08-14
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  17. 2017-08-14
    📄
    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  18. 2017-07-28
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2017-05-25
    ➖
    MACKAY, Janet Margaret resigned
    director
  20. 2017-01-24
    ➕
    SUMMERS, Michael John appointed
    director
  21. 2017-01-24
    ➕
    MACRAE, Anabel Janet appointed
    director
  22. 2016-09-01
    ➕
    MACKENZIE, Fiona Isabel, Professor appointed
    director
  23. 2016-01-10
    ➖
    MACKENZIE, John resigned
    director
  24. 2003-12-09
    ➕
    CAMERON, Roderick Kennedy, Captain appointed
    director
  25. 2003-05-08
    ➕
    MACKENZIE, John appointed
    director
  26. 2000-06-29
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As APPLECROSS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  27. 2000-06-29
    ➕
    MCCOWAN, Catriona Flora appointed
    secretary
  28. 2000-06-29
    ➕
    MCCOWAN, Catriona Flora appointed
    director
  29. 2000-06-29
    ➕
    MACKAY, Janet Margaret appointed
    director
  30. 2000-06-29
    ➕
    MCCOWAN, Alistair appointed
    director

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
  • -5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — 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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption
Incorporated2000-06-29
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC91020 — Museum activities

Registered office

Tom Na Creige
Culduie
Applecross
IV54 8LX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-18
Last: 2026-06-04

Officers (6 active · 4 resigned)

MCCOWAN, Catriona Flora→
secretary · appointed 2000-06-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CAMERON, Roderick Kennedy, Captain→
director · ~80y · appointed 2003-12-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GILLIES, Alan Spencer→
director · ~61y · appointed 2021-08-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACKENZIE, Fiona Isabel, Professor→
director · ~68y · appointed 2016-09-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCCOWAN, Catriona Flora→
director · ~74y · appointed 2000-06-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SUMMERS, Michael John→
director · ~76y · appointed 2017-01-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACKAY, Janet Margaret→
director · ~96y · appointed 2000-06-29 · resigned 2017-05-25
Resigned
MACKENZIE, John→
director · ~94y · appointed 2003-05-08 · resigned 2016-01-10
Resigned
MACRAE, Anabel Janet→
director · ~78y · appointed 2017-01-24 · resigned 2025-10-30
Resigned
MCCOWAN, Alistair→
director · ~100y · appointed 2000-06-29 · resigned 2020-05-31
Resigned

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Recent filings (68 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-04
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-30
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-08-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-02