AUCHENBLAE & DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

🌳Matureactive

SC332446 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2007-10-16

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 closing · medium confidence

Getting harder to buy cheaply — 1 signals strengthening over the last 30 days.

· Deal-killer verdict: complicated → workable

What changed my view

Last 30 days

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

↑Deal-killer verdict: complicated → workable

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

—

year to Jul 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of other membership organisations n.e.c.

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), 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 (72/100)

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

53 officers (5 active, 53 linked, 47 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

154 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

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

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-07-31
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 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (123 events)Click to expand

2025-06-17
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officers · TM01
2025-06-17
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officers · TM01
2025-06-17
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-04-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-23
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2024-11-20
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-11-20
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-11-20
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officers · TM01
2024-06-01
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THOMSON, Michael resigned
secretary
2024-06-01
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BROOKS-ROONEY, Lucas resigned
director
2024-06-01
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MCCREADIE, Gillian resigned
director
2024-06-01
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PATTERSON, Ellie resigned
director
2024-06-01
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THOMSON, Michael resigned
director
2024-05-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-03
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accounts · AA
2023-06-06
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COOLES, Philip Edwards appointed
director
2023-06-06
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COOLES, Sandra appointed
director
2023-06-06
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MCCOMBIE, Charlene resigned
director
2023-06-06
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officers · AP01
2023-06-06
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officers · AP01
2023-06-06
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-04-28
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC03
2023-02-27
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PIRIE, Ffion Shona resigned
director
2023-02-27
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officers · AP01
2023-02-27
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-02-27
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-02-27
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-02-07
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MCCOMBIE, Charlene appointed
director
2023-02-07
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PATTERSON, Ellie appointed
director
2022-08-31
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gazette · DISS40
2022-08-30
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accounts · AA
2022-08-09
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dissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
2022-02-02
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MCALISTER, Jacqui resigned
director
2021-10-20
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WYLIE, Nicola resigned
director
2021-03-02
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HARRISON LEWIS, Tracey appointed
director
2021-03-02
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WOMBWELL, Anna resigned
director
2021-03-02
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WYLIE, Nicola appointed
director
2020-03-11
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MCCREADIE, Gillian appointed
director
2020-03-11
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WOMBWELL, Anna appointed
director
2020-03-07
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PIRIE, Ffion resigned
secretary
2020-03-07
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THOMSON, Michael appointed
secretary
2020-03-07
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BROOKS-ROONEY, Lucas appointed
director
2020-03-07
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LEIGH, Elizabeth Anne resigned
director
2020-03-07
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THOMSON, Michael appointed
director
2020-03-03
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HUMPHREY, Jacqueline Jolanda resigned
director
2019-04-02
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MCALISTER, Jacqui appointed
director
2019-04-02
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PIRIE, Ffion Shona appointed
director
2019-02-05
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HARRISON-LEWIS, Tracey Kim resigned
secretary
2019-02-05
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PIRIE, Ffion appointed
secretary
2019-02-05
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HARRISON-LEWIS, Tracey Kim resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 123 events

Owner dependency

63/100

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.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Kevin L Newstead Individual · British · DOB 07/1954 · age 72	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	01/06/2024

3 historic (ceased) PSCs

Lucas Brooks-Rooneyceased 01/06/2024· significant influence · trust interest · firm interest
Miss Ffion Pirieceased 27/02/2023· board control
Mrs Jacqueline Jolanda Humphreyceased 03/03/2020· significant influence

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated2007-10-16

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC94990 — Activities of other membership organisations n.e.c.

Registered office

Auchenblae Village Hall Monboddo Street

Auchenblae

Laurencekirk

Kincardineshire

AB30 1XQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-07-31

Last made up to: 2024-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-25

Last: 2025-10-11