BALLATER HIGHLAND GAMES

🌳Matureactive

SC188241 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 1998-08-04

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

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year to Oct 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

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 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

43 officers (8 active, 43 linked, 39 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

160 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

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-10-31	2024-10-31
Average employees	7	600

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

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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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (100 events)Click to expand

2026-04-13
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accounts · AA
2025-06-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-12
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officers · AP01
2025-05-30
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RUSSELL, Sarah appointed
director
2024-09-09
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-09-02
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ARCHIBALD, Stewart John resigned
director
2024-07-16
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-04-10
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-28
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-03-28
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-03-27
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HENDERSON, Iain Charles appointed
director
2024-03-27
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ARCHIBALD, Stewart John appointed
director
2023-11-24
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-11-22
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HENDERSON, Fiona resigned
director
2023-04-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-21
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-03-21
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FRASER, Scott Alexander resigned
director
2022-02-28
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accounts · AA
2022-02-24
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-02-23
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HENDERSON, Fiona appointed
director
2021-12-13
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RIDDLER, Gordon Peterkin appointed
director
2021-12-07
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2021-12-07
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-12-06
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change-of-name · CERTNM
2021-12-06
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change-of-name-exemption
change-of-name · NE01
2021-12-06
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-12-01
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-11-29
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change-of-constitution · CC04
2021-08-06
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-07-28
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BANNISTER, Neil appointed
director
2021-07-28
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BUCHAN, Kerry appointed
director
2021-07-28
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COBBAN, David Grant appointed
director
2021-07-28
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BAIN, Osgood John Mcleod resigned
director
2021-07-28
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CASSIE, Neil George resigned
director
2021-07-28
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DREVER, Ronald Fergus resigned
director
2021-07-28
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FARQUHARSON, Francis William resigned
director
2021-07-28
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MURRAY, John Mcbeth resigned
director
2021-07-28
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SIMPSON, Elizabeth Agnes Sinclair resigned
director
2019-02-06
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RIDDLER, Gordon Peterkin appointed
secretary
2019-02-06
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MITCHELL, Alan Alexander resigned
secretary
2019-02-06
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DOWNIE, Alexander resigned
director
2019-02-06
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DREVER, Linda resigned
director
2019-02-06
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MICHIE, Allan William Charles resigned
director
2019-02-06
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MITCHELL, Alan Alexander resigned
director
2015-08-14
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LYON, William resigned
director
2014-08-27
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ARCHIBALD, Stewart John resigned
director
2014-07-09
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MITCHELL, Alan Alexander appointed
secretary
2014-07-09
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RETTIE, Martin Forbes resigned
director
2014-01-22
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RETTIE, Martin Forbes resigned
secretary
2014-01-22
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GIBSON, Brian Kenneth resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 100 events

Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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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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

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated1998-08-04

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities

Registered office

Park House

Anderson Road

Ballater

Aberdeenshire

AB35 5QW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-07-31

Last made up to: 2025-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-18

Last: 2025-08-04