SANDBANK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

🌳Matureactive

SC230869 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2002-04-26

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 Apr 2025

Net worth

£23.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: General public administration activities

Sector: Public administration

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

94990Activities of other membership organisations n.e.c.

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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, 2 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

56 officers (8 active, 56 linked, 51 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

158 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £23,264

Net assets shrinking

Down £744 YoY

Cash YoY

-4%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£19k

↓ 3.7% YoY

Net Worth

£23k

↓ 3.1% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Total assets	£23.3k	£24.0k
Cash	£19.4k	£20.2k
Net assets	£23.3k	£24.0k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 3 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (127 events)Click to expand

2026-03-12
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officers · CH01
2026-03-12
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officers · AP01
2026-03-12
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officers · AP01
2026-03-03
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LLOYD PAYNE, Damien appointed
director
2026-03-03
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RAWLINS, Phillip James appointed
director
2026-01-25
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accounts · AA
2025-10-07
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officers · TM01
2025-10-07
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officers · TM01
2025-04-02
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HARVEY, Sara resigned
director
2025-04-02
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PERRET, Louise Anne resigned
director
2025-03-11
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MACDONALD, Euan Joseph appointed
secretary
2025-03-11
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GALLIARD, Peter resigned
secretary
2025-03-11
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officers · AP03
2025-03-11
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-03-06
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address · AD01
2025-01-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-11
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-10-11
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officers · TM01
2024-10-10
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MASKELL, Jean Ann resigned
director
2024-10-10
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SEGEREN, Claire resigned
director
2024-04-18
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-04-18
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-04-16
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HARVEY, Sara appointed
director
2024-04-16
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MIZEN, Sandra resigned
director
2024-01-26
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accounts · AA
2024-01-09
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-01-09
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-01-01
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SEALE, Pauline resigned
director
2024-01-01
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TAYLOR, Carina resigned
director
2023-01-29
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accounts · AA
2023-01-19
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SEALE, Pauline appointed
director
2023-01-19
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-01-12
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GALLIARD, Peter resigned
director
2023-01-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-12-12
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SINCLAIR, William John resigned
director
2022-12-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-12-06
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PARKER, Janet appointed
director
2022-12-06
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PARKER, John appointed
director
2022-12-06
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TAYLOR, Carina appointed
director
2022-12-06
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-11-01
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MIZEN, Sandra appointed
director
2021-08-17
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MCKILLOP, Sue resigned
director
2021-08-17
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SEALE, Pauline Kay resigned
director
2020-01-28
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MASKELL, Jean Ann appointed
director
2020-01-28
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SEGEREN, Claire appointed
director
2020-01-28
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SINCLAIR, William John appointed
director
2019-11-19
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SEALE, Pauline Kay appointed
director
2019-05-04
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MASKELL, John Laurence resigned
director
2019-05-04
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PETRO, Dave resigned
director
2018-01-12
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MCNAB, Colin Archibald resigned
director

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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 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

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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 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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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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7 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

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated2002-04-26

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC84110 — General public administration activities

Registered office

82 Argyll Street

Dunoon

PA23 7NJ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-18

Last: 2025-05-04