OBAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

🌳Matureactive

SC285597 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2005-06-01

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: Activities of religious organisations

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 87). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (61/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

22 officers (7 active, 22 linked, 18 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

87 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

1 year 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
Average employees	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (57 events)Click to expand

2025-11-27
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2024-06-24
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2024-06-19
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2024-06-12
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BANKS, Sarah appointed
director
2023-09-01
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2023-07-05
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2023-07-05
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2023-04-23
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BERNARD, Karen appointed
director
2022-10-08
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SHEPPARD, James Craig resigned
director
2022-09-08
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accounts · AA
2021-05-10
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2020-05-21
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officers · CH01
2020-05-20
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officers · CH01
2020-04-29
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2020-04-23
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2020-04-23
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2020-04-23
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2020-04-23
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2020-03-20
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2020-03-02
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2020-03-02
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officers · AP01
2020-02-28
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2019-06-01
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GLADMAN, Janet appointed
director
2019-01-12
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KEENAN, Beatrice Ann resigned
director
2017-04-25
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WREN, Lillian Frances appointed
director
2017-03-15
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MAUGHAN, Anna resigned
director
2013-08-31
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SHEPPARD, James Craig appointed
director
2013-01-01
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MAUGHAN, Anna appointed
director
2012-07-07
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MACCULLOCH, Marion Banantyne resigned
secretary
2012-01-01
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KING, Robert Andrew Ferguson resigned
director
2012-01-01
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MILLER, Fumiko resigned
director
2010-03-18
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PARK, Robert Ferguson appointed
director
2010-03-18
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IRELAND, Ann Jean resigned
director
2010-03-18
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KING, Robert Andrew Ferguson appointed
director
2010-03-18
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MILLER, Fumiko appointed
director
2010-03-18
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WREN, Lillian Frances resigned
director
2010-01-05
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KIRKPATRICK, Adamina Scot resigned
director
2008-07-07
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MELDRUM, Marilyn Ann resigned
director
2008-06-30
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FORBES, Grace resigned
director
2008-03-26
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GLADMAN, Gary Peter appointed
director
2007-07-03
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IRELAND, Ann Jean appointed
director
2007-07-03
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MELDRUM, Marilyn Ann appointed
director
2007-07-03
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PARK, Robert Ferguson resigned
director
2007-07-03
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WREN, Lillian Frances appointed
director
2005-07-04
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MACGILLIVRAY, Catherine Mary appointed
director
2005-07-04
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MACCULLOCH, Marion Banantyne appointed
secretary
2005-07-04
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
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2005-07-04
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FORBES, Grace appointed
director
2005-07-04
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KEENAN, Beatrice Ann appointed
director
2005-07-04
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KIRKPATRICK, Adamina Scot appointed
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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 87 — 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 87 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated2005-06-01

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC94910 — Activities of religious organisations

Registered office

21 Argyll Square

C/O Jean Ainsley & Co Ca

Oban

Argyll

PA34 4AJ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-15

Last: 2025-06-01