OBAN WAR AND PEACE MUSEUM

🌳Matureactive

SC251697 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2003-06-25

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 20.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Nov 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

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 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). 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 20.8y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 20.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (62/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

29 officers (9 active, 29 linked, 24 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

116 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-11-30
Average employees	1

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

filing

• 1 officers

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (67 events)Click to expand

2026-04-01
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officers · AP01
2026-03-26
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CLOSE, Ian Nichol appointed
director
2026-02-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-03
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-03-20
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MACPHERSON, John Alexander appointed
director
2024-02-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-02
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-01-26
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LEECH, William Richard resigned
director
2020-03-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-05-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-11-09
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2018-03-24
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2018-03-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-02-22
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SALT, Paul appointed
director
2017-03-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2016-07-19
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2016-07-08
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GILLANDERS, Fergus Graeme Roy appointed
director
2016-02-25
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PALMER, Alison Greig resigned
director
2015-02-26
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CLEAVER, Ian Mckay resigned
director
2015-02-26
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GRAY, Iain Sinclair resigned
director
2014-05-09
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DUNLOP, Alexander John appointed
director
2014-05-09
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HODGE, David William Thomson appointed
director
2013-10-11
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SKINNER, Donald Macdougall resigned
director
2013-01-27
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MACPHERSON, John Alexander resigned
director
2012-01-09
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OWEN, Neil Forbes Peter resigned
director
2010-03-30
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PALMER, Alison Greig appointed
director
2009-11-01
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WILSON, John resigned
director
2009-06-30
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MACPHERSON, John Alexander appointed
director
2009-06-17
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PERRETT, Michael John resigned
director
2009-06-14
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MCEVOY, Jennifer Campbell resigned
director
2009-02-16
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MACPHERSON, John Alexander resigned
director
2009-01-16
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BLACK, Anne resigned
director
2008-07-10
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GRAY, Iain Sinclair appointed
director
2008-07-10
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MACPHERSON, John Alexander appointed
director
2008-07-10
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OWEN, Neil Forbes Peter appointed
director
2008-03-31
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CLARK, Alexander Sinclair resigned
director
2008-03-31
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MACFARLANE, John Malcolm resigned
director
2007-07-05
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PERRETT, Michael John appointed
director
2007-06-07
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MONTEITH, Philip King resigned
director
2007-02-22
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BLACK, Anne appointed
director
2007-02-22
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MACLEOD, Lorne Buchanan resigned
director
2006-03-24
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LEECH, William Richard appointed
director
2005-06-17
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Charge registered #1
Lender: New Opportunities Fund (Operating as the Big Lottery Fund)
2005-04-01
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CLARK, Alexander Sinclair resigned
secretary
2004-04-21
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SKINNER, Donald Macdougall appointed
director
2003-08-01
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MONTEITH, Philip King appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 67 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

-8 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 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 23 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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption

Incorporated2003-06-25

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC91020 — Museum activities

Registered office

Old Oban Times Building

Corran Esplanade

Oban

Argyll

PA34 5PX

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-08-31

Last made up to: 2025-11-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-09

Last: 2025-06-25