AFFORDABLE GOLF LTD.

📈Growthactive
SC350505 · ltd · incorporated 2008-10-28
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 8.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (other than commercial art galleries and opticians)
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 47799SIC 47799
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: conservative operator with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 8.4y

95/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (5 active, 9 linked, 5 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
57 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £1,244,049

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Profit before tax£1.24M£786.4k
Average employees53005400

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
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Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-30
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  2. 2024-07-09
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  3. 2023-07-31
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  4. 2022-07-26
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  5. 2021-07-30
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  10. 2021-04-09
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  11. 2021-04-08
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  12. 2021-02-22
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    TAYLOR, Lindsay appointed
    secretary
  13. 2021-02-22
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    BEVERIDGE, Scott appointed
    director
  14. 2021-02-22
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    CAMPBELL, Gordon Millar appointed
    director
  15. 2020-07-10
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  16. 2019-07-19
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  17. 2018-11-07
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  18. 2018-11-07
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  19. 2018-11-07
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    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  20. 2018-10-31
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    address · AD01
  21. 2018-08-31
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    WEBSTER, Nigel Duncan Colin appointed
    director
  22. 2018-02-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
  23. 2008-10-28
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    Company incorporated
    As AFFORDABLE GOLF LTD.
  24. 2008-10-28
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    TAYLOR, Mark James appointed
    director
  25. 2008-10-28
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    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2008-10-28
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    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-secretary
  27. 2008-10-28
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    TRAINER, Peter appointed
    nominee-director
  28. 2008-10-28
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    TRAINER, Peter resigned
    nominee-director
  29. 2008-10-28
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    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-director
  30. 2008-10-28
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    PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-director
  31. 2008-10-28
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    PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. appointed
    corporate-director
  32. 2008-10-28
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    PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD. resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

58/100
Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Mark James Taylor
Individual · British · DOB 09/1973 · age 53
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016

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

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

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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
Typeltd
Incorporated2008-10-28
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47789 — Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (other than commercial art galleries and opticians)

Registered office

48 Kelvin Avenue
Hillington
Glasgow
G52 4LT
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-11
Last: 2025-10-28

Officers (5 active · 4 resigned)

TAYLOR, Lindsay→
secretary · appointed 2021-02-22
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Active
BEVERIDGE, Scott→
director · ~45y · appointed 2021-02-22
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Active
CAMPBELL, Gordon Millar→
director · ~42y · appointed 2021-02-22
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Active
TAYLOR, Mark James→
director · ~53y · appointed 2008-10-28
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Active
WEBSTER, Nigel Duncan Colin→
director · ~63y · appointed 2018-08-31
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Active
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2008-10-28 · resigned 2008-10-28
Resigned
TRAINER, Peter→
nominee-director · ~74y · appointed 2008-10-28 · resigned 2008-10-28
Resigned
PETER TRAINER COMPANY SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-director · appointed 2008-10-28 · resigned 2008-10-28
Resigned
PETER TRAINER CORPORATE SERVICES LTD.→
corporate-director · appointed 2008-10-28 · resigned 2008-10-28
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
A registered charge—08/02/2018—
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Recent filings (57 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-30
capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
capital · SH10
2021-04-20
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-04-09
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-04-09
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2021-04-09
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2021-04-09