WELLPARK SCOTLAND LIMITED

💤Zombieactive

SC360211 · ltd · incorporated 2009-05-26

Investment thesis

Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.

Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.

Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£-5.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Television programme production activities

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

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

1 officers (1 active, 1 linked, 1 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

42 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 105 (micro)

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £5,447

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

-£5k

↓ 207% YoY

Current Assets

£2k

↓ 70% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£-5.4k	£-1.8k
Current assets	£1.7k	£5.5k
Net assets	£-5.4k	£-1.8k

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

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand

2026-05-26
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officers · CH01
2026-02-09
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2024-12-24
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2023-12-28
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2023-03-31
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accounts · AA
2022-04-27
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-11-18
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accounts · AA
2021-03-27
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accounts · AA
2019-07-27
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accounts · AA
2018-09-03
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2017-12-04
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2016-11-08
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2016-05-19
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2015-12-14
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2015-04-23
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2009-05-26
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Company incorporated
As WELLPARK SCOTLAND LIMITED
2009-05-26
➕
BOURNE, Susan appointed
director

Owner dependency

100/100

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

+Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
+No director turnover: Company is 17 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

98/100

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 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Ms Susan Bourne Individual · British · DOB 12/1953 · age 73	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	23/04/2017

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

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2009-05-26

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC59113 — Television programme production activities

Registered office

Bridgend 1-3 Main Street

Auchencairn

Castle Douglas

Kirkcudbrightshire

DG7 1QU

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-07

Last: 2026-04-23

Officers (1 active · 0 resigned)

BOURNE, Susan→

director · ~73y · appointed 2009-05-26

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Active

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Recent filings (42 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-05-26

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2026-05-26

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2026-02-09

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-05-07

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-12-24

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-06-10

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-12-28

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-04-27

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2023-03-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-04-27

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2022-04-27

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2021-11-18

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-05-24

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2021-03-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-04-27