ARDOYNE PERFORMANCE LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC308365 · ltd · incorporated 2006-09-11
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 17.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other sports activities
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (80/100, director aged 63). 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
3 live charges · oldest 17.1y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 17.1 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: high (80/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
46 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.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-09-30 | 2023-09-30 |
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| Average employees | 0 | 200 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
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Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2025-06-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-05-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2019-06-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-06-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2017-10-20📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2017-06-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-06-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2015-10-09📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2015-06-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2014-10-01📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2013-11-01🔓Charge satisfied #3
- 2013-09-19🔓Charge satisfied #2
- 2009-05-19🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Adam & Company PLC
- 2009-05-14🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Adam & Company PLC
- 2009-03-19🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Adam & Company PLC
- 2006-09-11🏢Company incorporatedAs ARDOYNE PERFORMANCE LIMITED
- 2006-09-11➕LYONS, Elaine Margaret appointedsecretary
- 2006-09-11➕LYONS, Elaine Margaret appointeddirector
- 2006-09-11➕LYONS, Robert appointeddirector
Owner dependency
84/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr Robert Lyons Individual · British · DOB 12/1963 · age 63 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 11/09/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-09-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC93199 — Other sports activities
Registered office
Hatton Of Ardoyne, Oyne
Insch
Aberdeenshire
AB52 6RQ
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-07
Last: 2025-09-23
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
LYONS, Elaine Margaret→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-09-11
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LYONS, Elaine Margaret→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2006-09-11
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LYONS, Robert→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2006-09-11
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Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | Adam & Company Adam & Company PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 19/05/2009 | 01/11/2013 | |
| satisfied | Adam & Company Adam & Company PLC | Standard security | 1 property | 14/05/2009 | 19/09/2013 | |
| outstanding | Adam & Company Adam & Company PLC | Bond & floating charge | 1 property | 19/03/2009 | — |
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Recent filings (46 total)
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2024-06-28
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2023-10-04
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2023-06-21
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2022-10-04
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2022-06-07
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2021-09-28
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2021-05-20
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2020-09-25
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2020-06-29
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2019-09-19
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