What a buyer sees
QUEEN'S HALL ARTS
Operation of arts facilities · Hexham · 03929839
16staff · FY2024
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£71kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.1Mfor the year to 2024
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff16
202212 → 162024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£65,863in the middle half
£11,223£29,799£505,127
Debtor daysdays10in the bottom quarter
1024213
Creditor daysdays15
92385
Stock daysdays1below almost all
51386
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 3
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 4
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 12 to 16Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 10 against 24 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 13 for the middle of 58 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2018
- 70since 2021
- 62since 2021
- 24since 2022
- 42since 2022
- 52since 2022
- 39since 2022
- 73since 2024
- 38since 2024
- 52since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £1.1M | 16 | £71k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 12 | — |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£420k£950k
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.