What a buyer sees
THE CHICKEN SHED THEATRE TRUST
Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c. · London · 02705172
102staff · FY2023
34years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.9Mfor the year to 2023
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£38,237in the middle half
£10,006£30,938£79,295
Debtor daysdays8below almost all
103295
Creditor daysdays11
724288
Stock daysdays1below almost all
62476
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 41 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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 3
- 34 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 32 for the middle of 79 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 24 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 94since 1992
- 64since 1996
- 60since 2000
- 61since 2012
- since 2015
- 60since 2016
- 55since 2019
- 50since 2019
- 65since 2019
- 61since 2019
- 45since 2019
- 58since 2020
- 72since 2021
- 25since 2021
- 61since 2022
- 57since 2022
- 68since 2024
- 36since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £3.9M | 102 | £1.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.6M£3.5M
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.