ROKEST LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC387998 · ltd · incorporated 2010-11-01
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 15.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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

2 live charges · oldest 15.4y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 15.4 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: high (82/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
49 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees210

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
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filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-06-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-06-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-07-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-10-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-11-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-09-17
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  8. 2019-07-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-07-23
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    address · AD01
  10. 2019-03-12
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  11. 2019-03-12
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  12. 2018-06-19
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    REYNOLDS, Stephen Charles resigned
    director
  13. 2018-06-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-06-19
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    officers · TM01
  15. 2017-07-28
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-10-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2014-10-28
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    REYNOLDS, Stephen Charles appointed
    director
  18. 2011-12-01
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    REYNOLDS, Stephen Charles resigned
    director
  19. 2010-12-15
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Coutts & Company & Others
  20. 2010-12-06
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Coutts & Company & Others
  21. 2010-11-01
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    Company incorporated
    As ROKEST LIMITED
  22. 2010-11-01
    ➕
    ERSKINE, Robert David Chapman appointed
    director
  23. 2010-11-01
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    SHAW, David Robert appointed
    director
  24. 2010-11-01
    ➕
    SHAW, Keith David appointed
    director
  25. 2010-11-01
    ➕
    REYNOLDS, Stephen Charles appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr David Robert Shaw
Individual · British · DOB 05/1948 · age 78
50–75%
—50-75% shares · trust interest11/03/2019
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Ms Susan Wilsonceased 11/03/2019· significant influence

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
Incorporated2010-11-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

3 Blair Terrace
Portpatrick
Stranraer
DG9 8SY
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-15
Last: 2025-11-01

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

ERSKINE, Robert David Chapman→
director · ~71y · appointed 2010-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SHAW, David Robert→
director · ~78y · appointed 2010-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SHAW, Keith David→
director · ~51y · appointed 2010-11-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
REYNOLDS, Stephen Charles→
director · ~67y · appointed 2014-10-28 · resigned 2018-06-19
Resigned
REYNOLDS, Stephen Charles→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-11-01 · resigned 2011-12-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
NatWest Group
Coutts & Company & Others
Standard security1 property15/12/2010—
outstanding
NatWest Group
Coutts & Company & Others
Standard security1 property06/12/2010—
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Recent filings (49 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-06
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2019-09-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-07-24