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What a buyer sees

THE COLCHESTER MASONIC HALL COMPANY LIMITED

Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c. · Colchester · 00072188

6staff · FY2025
125years trading
—oldest owner on file
£85kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

6.5× spread
£30k
£195k

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 4 figures against 40 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff6
20228 → 62025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£11,876£41,167£194,773
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1039175
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
92597
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
723203

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 4

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £30k and £195k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The last accounts went in 11 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
  • Headcount fell from 7 to 6A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • 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 1

  • 125 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 64since 2013
  • 70since 2013
  • 66since 2016
  • since 2018
  • 72since 2019
  • 65since 2022
  • 54since 2023
  • 64since 2023
  • 57since 2023
  • 76since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-08-312026-08-22not filed6£85k
2023-08-31—not filed7—
2022-08-31—not filed8—

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.