SHAWBOST OLD SCHOOL TRUST

🌳Matureactive

SC259718 · private-limited-guarant-nsc-limited-exemption · incorporated 2003-11-24

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 Mar 2025

Net worth

£497.6k

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of other membership organisations n.e.c.

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (70/100)

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

34 officers (6 active, 34 linked, 28 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

121 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £497,647

Net assets shrinking

Down £15,307 YoY

Cash YoY

+6%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£5k

↑ 5.5% YoY

Net Worth

£498k

↓ 3.0% YoY

Current Assets

£7k

↑ 38% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£497.6k	£513.0k
Current assets	£7.1k	£5.2k
Cash	£4.9k	£4.7k
Debtors	£2.2k	£490
Net assets	£497.6k	£513.0k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (82 events)Click to expand

2026-03-20
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2025-11-14
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officers · TM02
2024-12-23
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accounts · AA
2024-01-04
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HARRISON, Innes resigned
director
2023-12-28
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accounts · AA
2023-08-28
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MACRITCHIE, Catriona resigned
secretary
2023-08-28
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MACRITCHIE, Catriona resigned
director
2022-12-09
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accounts · AA
2022-01-18
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accounts · AA
2021-11-24
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JEFFERSON, Fiona appointed
director
2021-11-24
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MACLENNAN, Annetta appointed
director
2021-11-24
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MACDONALD, Megan resigned
secretary
2021-11-24
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MACRITCHIE, Catriona appointed
secretary
2021-11-24
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HARRISON, Innes appointed
director
2021-11-24
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KENNEDY, Kenneth John resigned
director
2021-11-24
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MACDONALD, Megan resigned
director
2021-11-24
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MACKAY, Marion Margaret resigned
director
2021-11-24
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MACRITCHIE, Catriona appointed
director
2021-11-24
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MORRISON, Roderick resigned
director
2021-11-24
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2021-11-24
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2021-03-30
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2015-04-20
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MACARTHUR, Erica resigned
secretary
2015-04-20
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MACDONALD, Megan appointed
secretary
2015-04-20
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CAMPBELL, Stewart resigned
director
2015-04-20
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MACARTHUR, Erica resigned
director
2015-04-20
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MACDONALD, Donald resigned
director
2015-04-20
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MACDONALD, Megan appointed
director
2015-04-20
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MACKAY, Marion Margaret appointed
director
2015-04-20
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MORRISON, George resigned
director
2011-11-21
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HEBDITCH, Lynn appointed
director
2011-11-21
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HEBDITCH, Matthew appointed
director
2011-11-21
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MACARTHUR, Erica appointed
secretary
2011-11-21
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MACKAY, Marion Margaret resigned
secretary
2011-11-21
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MACCONNELL, Hugh Smart resigned
director
2011-11-21
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MACKAY, Marion Margaret resigned
director
2010-10-12
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CAMPBELL, Stewart appointed
director
2010-10-12
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MACARTHUR, Erica appointed
director
2010-10-12
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MACLEAN, Mary resigned
director
2009-10-06
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MACLEOD, Neil appointed
director

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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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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-limited-exemption

Incorporated2003-11-24

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC94990 — Activities of other membership organisations n.e.c.

Registered office

Ionad Na Seann Sgoil

North Shawbost

Isle Of Lewis

Western Isles

HS2 9BQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-28

Last: 2025-11-14