SPORTFLIGHT SCOTLAND LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC308893 · ltd · incorporated 2006-09-20

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 Sept 2024

Net worth

£10.1k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Sports and recreation education

Sector: Education

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

60 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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 £10,119

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£30k

Net Worth

£10k

Current Assets

£32k

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Total assets	£10.2k	—
Current assets	£32.4k	—
Cash	£30.3k	—
Debtors	£2.1k	—
Net assets	£10.1k	—

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

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand

2024-11-21
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2024-03-07
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2023-01-25
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2021-11-11
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2021-03-02
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accounts · AA
2020-06-23
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accounts · AA
2019-08-02
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2019-08-02
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officers · CH01
2018-12-14
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accounts · AA
2018-06-20
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accounts · AA
2017-04-06
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2016-04-05
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2015-10-01
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2015-04-01
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2006-09-20
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Company incorporated
As SPORTFLIGHT SCOTLAND LIMITED
2006-09-20
➕
MACKINNON, Colin Macbeth appointed
secretary
2006-09-20
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BRIONGOS BARTOLOME, Marta appointed
director
2006-09-20
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MACKINNON, Colin Macbeth appointed
director
2006-09-20
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BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2006-09-20
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2006-09-20
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2006-09-20
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STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100

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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Colin Macbeth Mackinnon Individual · British · DOB 02/1961 · age 65	50–75%	—	50-75% shares	06/04/2016
Ms Marta Briongos Bartolome Individual · Spanish · DOB 04/1962 · age 64	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2006-09-20

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC85510 — Sports and recreation education

Registered office

Strathaven Airfield

Strathaven

South Lanarkshire

ML10 6RW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-03

Last: 2025-09-19

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

MACKINNON, Colin Macbeth→

secretary · appointed 2006-09-20

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Active

BRIONGOS BARTOLOME, Marta→

director · ~64y · appointed 2006-09-20

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Active

MACKINNON, Colin Macbeth→

director · ~65y · appointed 2006-09-20

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Active

BRIAN REID LTD.→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-09-20 · resigned 2006-09-20

Resigned

STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-09-20 · resigned 2006-09-20

Resigned

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