CAPPELLA NOVA

🌳Matureactive

SC101005 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1986-09-23

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.

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Performing arts

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

90020Support activities to performing arts
90030Artistic creation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (75/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

19 officers (7 active, 19 linked, 18 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

11 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

123 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-07-31
Average employees	0

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand

2026-01-06
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accounts · AA
2025-11-13
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officers · CH01
2024-12-16
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accounts · AA
2023-12-13
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accounts · AA
2023-10-23
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officers · TM01
2023-03-31
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MACLEAN, Calum Ronald resigned
director
2023-01-17
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accounts · AA
2021-12-23
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accounts · AA
2021-01-27
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accounts · AA
2020-12-17
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officers · TM01
2020-02-25
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O'NEILL, Marie Louise resigned
director
2020-01-07
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accounts · AA
2018-12-24
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2018-04-10
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2017-05-08
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accounts · AA
2016-04-27
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accounts · AA
2016-01-08
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annual-return · AR01
2015-09-29
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PATRICKSON, Judith appointed
director
2014-11-06
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O'NEILL, Marie Louise appointed
director
2014-07-28
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DICK, William Michael resigned
director
2009-02-06
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BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, Robert, Lord resigned
director
2008-06-11
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FOLEY, Paul Francis appointed
director
2008-01-31
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MITCHELL, Iain Grant appointed
director
2006-03-29
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O'REGAN, Noel, Dr appointed
director
2005-03-15
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JONES, Nicholas William resigned
director
2004-01-30
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MACLEAN, Calum Ronald appointed
director
2003-12-28
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MCGLASHAN, Iain Sillars Stuart resigned
director
2003-07-02
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COLVIN, Sheila Gillian resigned
director
2001-11-11
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POTTER, Richard Adrian resigned
director
2001-05-22
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DICK, William Michael appointed
director
2000-11-22
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COLVIN, Sheila Gillian appointed
director
2000-02-29
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BUREAU, James Roger resigned
director
1999-10-29
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SNEDDON, Ian Naismith resigned
director
1996-08-07
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MCGLASHAN, Iain Sillars Stuart appointed
director
1996-07-31
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HEGGIE, Colin Alexander resigned
director
1995-05-25
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ELLIOTT, Kenneth, Doctor resigned
director
1994-01-17
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POTTER, Richard Adrian appointed
director
1993-07-23
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JONES, Nicholas William appointed
director
1986-09-23
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Company incorporated
As CAPPELLA NOVA

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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 40 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Alan Tavener Individual · British · DOB 04/1957 · age 69	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	31/12/2016
Mrs Rebecca Jane Tavener Individual · British · DOB 05/1958 · age 68	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	31/12/2016

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1986-09-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC90010 — Performing arts

Registered office

35 Crosbie Street

Glasgow

G20 0BQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-02

Last: 2025-12-19