BELLA JANE BOAT TRIPS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC378421 · ltd · incorporated 2010-05-12
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 steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
What changed my view
Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£68.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 50100
Sector: Transportation & storage
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
45 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £68,909

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£90k
Net Worth
£69k
↑ 8.0% YoY
Current Assets
£98k
↓ 5.1% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£21k£41k£62k£83k£103kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£101.3k£84.6k
Current assets£98.2k£103.4k
Cash£90.2k—
Debtors£6.4k—
Net assets£68.9k£63.8k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
4
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-17
    ➖
    HOOK, Alan resigned
    secretary
  2. 2026-03-17
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  3. 2026-03-17
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  4. 2026-03-17
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  5. 2025-11-26
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    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-12-24
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  7. 2023-12-21
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  8. 2022-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  9. 2021-12-07
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  10. 2020-12-23
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  11. 2020-01-31
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    capital · SH02
  12. 2020-01-31
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  13. 2020-01-31
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  14. 2020-01-02
    ➕
    BROWN, Doreen Helen appointed
    director
  15. 2020-01-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2019-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  17. 2018-12-31
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  18. 2017-12-20
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  19. 2010-09-02
    ➕
    HOOK, Alan appointed
    secretary
  20. 2010-05-12
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As BELLA JANE BOAT TRIPS LIMITED
  21. 2010-05-12
    ➕
    BROWN, David James appointed
    director
  22. 2010-05-12
    ➕
    COWAN, Graham Michael appointed
    director
  23. 2010-05-12
    ➖
    COWAN, Graham Michael resigned
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 68. 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 16 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr David James Brown
Individual · British · DOB 03/1958 · age 68
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting01/03/2026
Mrs Doreen Helen Brown
Individual · British · DOB 06/1960 · age 66
25–50%
—25-50% shares21/01/2020
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr David James Brownceased 01/03/2026· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated2010-05-12
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC50100 — SIC 50100

Registered office

The Jetty
Elgol
Isle Of Skye
IV49 9BJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last: 2026-03-17

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

BROWN, David James→
director · ~68y · appointed 2010-05-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BROWN, Doreen Helen→
director · ~66y · appointed 2020-01-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HOOK, Alan→
secretary · appointed 2010-09-02 · resigned 2026-03-17
Resigned
COWAN, Graham Michael→
director · ~83y · appointed 2010-05-12 · resigned 2010-05-12
Resigned

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Recent filings (45 total)

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-17
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-03-17
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2026-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-12-23