MONUMENT LEISURE GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC496704 · ltd · incorporated 2015-02-03
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 10.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Sept 2024
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
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 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 10.7y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 6 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
19 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
43 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
75
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
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-262023-09-26
Average employees300300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • 1 confirmation-statement
  • 1 officers
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • 1 confirmation-statement
  • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-19
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2025-09-26
    📄
    legacy
    other · GUARANTEE2
  3. 2025-09-26
    📄
    legacy
    other · AGREEMENT2
  4. 2025-09-26
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-12-10
    MCMILLAN, Kenneth resigned
    director
  6. 2024-10-25
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-10-07
    📄
    legacy
    other · AGREEMENT2
  8. 2024-10-07
    📄
    legacy
    other · GUARANTEE2
  9. 2023-06-23
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-09-23
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-03-25
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-11-12
    📄
    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  13. 2021-10-27
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  14. 2021-09-22
    📄
    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  15. 2021-05-12
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2020-09-16
    📄
    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  17. 2020-09-15
    📄
    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  18. 2020-08-26
    MACDONALD, Ruaridh resigned
    director
  19. 2019-11-21
    📄
    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  20. 2019-06-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  21. 2019-03-11
    📄
    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  22. 2016-07-02
    MACLENNAN, Kenneth resigned
    director
  23. 2016-07-01
    MACLENNAN, Kenneth appointed
    director
  24. 2016-07-01
    MCMILLAN, Kenneth appointed
    director
  25. 2016-01-18
    COOK, Robert Barclay resigned
    director
  26. 2015-09-01
    SMITH, Gerard Henry appointed
    director
  27. 2015-09-01
    COOK, Robert Barclay appointed
    director
  28. 2015-09-01
    MACDONALD, Ruaridh appointed
    director
  29. 2015-08-05
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  30. 2015-02-03
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As MONUMENT LEISURE GROUP LIMITED
  31. 2015-02-03
    GILLIES, Iain appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

71/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Monument Leisure (Holdings) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Monument Leisure (Holdings) Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
MONUMENT LEISURE GROUP LIMITED
This company · SC496704

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Monument Leisure (Holdings) Limited
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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7 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
Incorporated2015-02-03
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

3 Clairmont Gardens
Glasgow
G3 7LW
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-26
Last made up to: 2024-09-26
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-15
Last: 2026-02-01

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

GILLIES, Iain
director · ~64y · appointed 2015-02-03
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Active
SMITH, Gerard Henry
director · ~76y · appointed 2015-09-01
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Active
COOK, Robert Barclay
director · ~60y · appointed 2015-09-01 · resigned 2016-01-18
Resigned
MACDONALD, Ruaridh
director · ~51y · appointed 2015-09-01 · resigned 2020-08-26
Resigned
MACLENNAN, Kenneth
director · ~55y · appointed 2016-07-01 · resigned 2016-07-02
Resigned
MCMILLAN, Kenneth
director · ~55y · appointed 2016-07-01 · resigned 2024-12-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property27/10/2021
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge05/08/2015
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Recent filings (43 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-19
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-02-19
legacy
other · GUARANTEE2
2025-09-26
legacy
other · AGREEMENT2
2025-09-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-25
legacy
other · AGREEMENT2
2024-10-07
legacy
other · GUARANTEE2
2024-10-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-09-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-18