CREETOWN HERITAGE MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC151535 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1994-06-21
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 31.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£54.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Museum activities
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 86). 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 31.2y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 31.2 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 (61/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
13 officers (3 active, 13 linked, 8 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
94 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £54,789

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£55k
Current Assets
£15k
Current Liabilities
—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-31
Total assets£54.8k
Current assets£14.8k
Net assets£54.8k

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Corporate timeline (41 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2024-06-24
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  3. 2023-09-20
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  4. 2022-09-28
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  5. 2022-03-06
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    MACDONALD, Andrew Irving resigned
    director
  6. 2022-03-06
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    WARD, Andrew John resigned
    director
  7. 2022-03-06
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  8. 2022-03-06
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  9. 2021-09-02
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  10. 2020-11-10
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  11. 2019-08-09
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  12. 2019-03-15
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  13. 2019-03-11
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    MACLEOD, Michael Andrew resigned
    secretary
  14. 2019-03-04
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  15. 2018-12-17
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  16. 2018-06-06
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  17. 2017-10-19
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    HOWIE, Peter Robert resigned
    director
  18. 2017-09-12
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  19. 2016-08-22
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  20. 2016-06-07
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  21. 2016-02-04
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    MACLEOD, Michael Andrew appointed
    secretary
  22. 2012-03-29
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    BELL, Pamela resigned
    secretary
  23. 2011-07-22
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    CUTLAND, John Robertson resigned
    director
  24. 2007-05-21
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    BELL, Pamela appointed
    secretary
  25. 2007-05-21
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    THOMSON, Lorraine resigned
    secretary
  26. 2004-06-21
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    THOMSON, Lorraine appointed
    secretary
  27. 2004-03-31
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    MCKIE, Elizabeth Dornan resigned
    secretary
  28. 2003-06-01
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    MACDONALD, Andrew Irving appointed
    director
  29. 1999-06-01
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    MCKIE, Elizabeth Dornan appointed
    secretary
  30. 1999-03-06
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    LEE, John Anthony resigned
    secretary
  31. 1997-04-28
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    HORTON, Valerie Joan resigned
    director
  32. 1995-02-21
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lewin Harold Chapman and Others as the Present Trustees of the Felix Slevin Charitable Trust
  33. 1994-06-21
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    Company incorporated
    As CREETOWN HERITAGE MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED
  34. 1994-06-21
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    MCKIE, Archibald John appointed
    director
  35. 1994-06-21
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    MCKIE, William Kenneth appointed
    director
  36. 1994-06-21
    ➕
    PETRIE, James Thomas appointed
    director
  37. 1994-06-21
    ➕
    LEE, John Anthony appointed
    secretary
  38. 1994-06-21
    ➕
    HOWIE, Peter Robert appointed
    director
  39. 1994-06-21
    ➕
    WARD, Andrew John appointed
    director
  40. 1994-06-09
    ➕
    CUTLAND, John Robertson appointed
    director
  41. 1994-06-02
    ➕
    HORTON, Valerie Joan 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 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — 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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 32 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc
Incorporated1994-06-21
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC91020 — Museum activities

Registered office

Creetown Heritage Museum
91 St John's Street
Creetown
Newton Stewart,
DG8 7JE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-14
Last: 2025-05-31

Officers (3 active · 10 resigned)

MCKIE, Archibald John→
director · ~80y · appointed 1994-06-21
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Active
MCKIE, William Kenneth→
director · ~86y · appointed 1994-06-21
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Active
PETRIE, James Thomas→
director · ~76y · appointed 1994-06-21
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Active
BELL, Pamela→
secretary · appointed 2007-05-21 · resigned 2012-03-29
Resigned
LEE, John Anthony→
secretary · appointed 1994-06-21 · resigned 1999-03-06
Resigned
MACLEOD, Michael Andrew→
secretary · appointed 2016-02-04 · resigned 2019-03-11
Resigned
MCKIE, Elizabeth Dornan→
secretary · appointed 1999-06-01 · resigned 2004-03-31
Resigned
THOMSON, Lorraine→
secretary · appointed 2004-06-21 · resigned 2007-05-21
Resigned
CUTLAND, John Robertson→
director · ~107y · appointed 1994-06-09 · resigned 2011-07-22
Resigned
HORTON, Valerie Joan→
director · ~76y · appointed 1994-06-02 · resigned 1997-04-28
Resigned
HOWIE, Peter Robert→
director · ~77y · appointed 1994-06-21 · resigned 2017-10-19
Resigned
MACDONALD, Andrew Irving→
director · ~98y · appointed 2003-06-01 · resigned 2022-03-06
Resigned
WARD, Andrew John→
director · ~71y · appointed 1994-06-21 · resigned 2022-03-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lewin Harold Chapman and Others as the Present Trustees of the Felix Slevin Charitable Trust
Standard security1 property21/02/1995—
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Recent filings (94 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-09-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-02
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-03-06
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-08-09