BOWHOUSE EQUESTRIAN LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC380348 · ltd · incorporated 2010-06-15

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 15.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other sports activities

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 15.3y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 15.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

42 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-07-31	2023-07-31
Average employees	0	0

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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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

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-04-30
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accounts · AA
2024-04-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-21
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accounts · AA
2022-04-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-04-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-05-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-04-16
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2018-03-26
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address · AD01
2018-03-26
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2017-07-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2017-04-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2016-06-28
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annual-return · AR01
2016-04-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-06-25
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annual-return · AR01
2011-01-28
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2010-07-01
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SHEDDEN, Aileen Mary appointed
director
2010-07-01
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SHEDDEN, Robin Kenneth appointed
director
2010-07-01
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WARNOCK, James Archibald Kirkland resigned
director
2010-06-15
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Company incorporated
As BOWHOUSE EQUESTRIAN LIMITED
2010-06-15
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MORISONS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2010-06-15
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WARNOCK, James Archibald Kirkland appointed
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 69 — 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 69. 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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Robin Kenneth Shedden Individual · British · DOB 07/1957 · age 69	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	01/03/2018

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

Incorporated2010-06-15

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities

Registered office

Bowhouse Farm

Kinglassie

Lochgelly

KY5 0UN

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-04-30

Last made up to: 2024-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-24

Last: 2025-06-10

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

MORISONS SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2010-06-15

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Active

SHEDDEN, Aileen Mary→

director · ~66y · appointed 2010-07-01

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Active

SHEDDEN, Robin Kenneth→

director · ~69y · appointed 2010-07-01

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Active

WARNOCK, James Archibald Kirkland→

director · ~74y · appointed 2010-06-15 · resigned 2010-07-01

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC	Floating charge	1 property	28/01/2011	—

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