What a buyer sees
COLCHESTER GARRISON OFFICERS' CLUB LIMITED
Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c. · Colchester · 03982585
11staff · FY2025
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£32kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£468kfor the year to 2025
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
Staff11
202111 → 112025
Cash at bank£32k
2021£103k → £32k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£42,582in the middle half
£13,305£44,875£250,941
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
1042161
Creditor daysdays65
92494
Stock daysdays2below almost all
71499
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
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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
- 26 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 4 against 42 for the middle of 71 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 14 for the middle of 134 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 2008
- 65since 2008
- 79since 2010
- 79since 2018
- 81since 2022
- 77since 2022
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-25 | £468k | 11 | £32k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | not filed | 11 | £18k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | not filed | 11 | £56k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | not filed | 11 | £103k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£190k£420k
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.