CLAN DONNACHAIDH SOCIETY

🌳Matureactive

SC267317 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2004-05-03

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 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

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 88-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 88). 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

68 officers (12 active, 68 linked, 67 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	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Average employees	100	100

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (146 events)Click to expand

2025-12-05
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2025-12-05
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2025-10-20
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REID, Iain Donald appointed
director
2025-09-15
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accounts · AA
2025-08-29
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2025-08-24
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REID, D'Arce Raelene appointed
director
2025-05-12
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officers · CH01
2025-05-12
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2024-10-18
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J & H MITCHELL WS resigned
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2024-10-18
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officers · TM02
2024-09-25
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accounts · AA
2024-02-14
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2024-02-13
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2024-01-21
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STEWART, Edward Angus appointed
director
2024-01-21
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ROBERTSON, David Mark resigned
director
2023-09-07
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2023-08-25
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2023-08-21
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REID, James, Reverend resigned
director
2023-03-10
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officers · TM01
2023-02-27
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REID, Iain Donald resigned
director
2022-10-12
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2022-09-30
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2022-09-30
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2022-09-22
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2022-09-09
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FERRERO GUEVARA, Emilio appointed
director
2022-09-09
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MCNUTT, Susan (Suzi) appointed
director
2022-09-09
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ROBERTSON, Stuart George resigned
director
2022-07-15
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officers · TM01
2022-07-14
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REID, Donald Gordon resigned
director
2022-07-12
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officers · TM01
2022-06-29
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STEWART, Edward Angus resigned
director
2022-05-16
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officers · AP01
2022-05-11
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2022-03-15
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ROBERTSON, James appointed
director
2022-03-15
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ROBERTSON, David Mark appointed
director
2022-03-15
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ROBERTSON, Gillespie Philip Alexander Garden resigned
director
2021-08-20
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REID, Emma Ann appointed
director
2020-08-21
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DUNCAN, William resigned
director
2020-08-21
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MCNUTT, Susan resigned
director
2020-07-19
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DUNCAN, Kathy Palmer appointed
director
2020-07-19
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ROBERTSON, Stephanie appointed
director
2020-04-20
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MACAULAY, Catriona Mackay resigned
director
2019-09-13
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ROBERTSON OF DRUMACHUINE, Alasdair appointed
director
2019-09-13
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DUNCAN, Timothy Douglas resigned
director
2019-09-13
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HOBSON, Ronald James resigned
director
2019-09-13
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HUIE, Andrew Duncan Garrow Robertson resigned
director
2019-09-13
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LANGE, Christal Duncan resigned
director
2019-09-13
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REID, Iain Donald appointed
director
2019-09-13
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ROBERTSON, Colin Macleod resigned
director
2019-09-13
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ROBERTSON, Stephanie 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

-12 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 88 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 88 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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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THE ARDNAMURCHAN TRUST→ SC202981 · est 2000	—	—	—	2	26y	82	66y
BLAIRGOWRIE COMMUNITY PROJECT→ SC190554 · est 1998	—	—	£0	—	27y	81	81y
CAIRNGORM MOUNTAIN TRUST LTD.→ SC032229 · est 1957	—	—	£4.2k	—	68y	81	79y
CRIEFF HIGHLAND GATHERING LIMITED→ SC018654 · est 1935	—	—	£113.9k	—	90y	81	74y
FEIS GLEANN ALBAINN→ SC325521 · est 2007 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	18y	81	81y
FINGASK FOLLIES→ SC366264 · est 2009 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	16y	81	87y
GLENUIG COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION→ SC147089 · est 1993 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	32y	81	80y
THE LUXURY FITNESS GROUP LTD→ SC465504 · est 2013 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	12y	—	—
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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated2004-05-03

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC91020 — Museum activities

Registered office

51 Atholl Road

Pitlochry

Perthshire

PH16 5BU

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-17

Last: 2025-05-03