FAMILY AMUSEMENTS LIMITED
Company number 01541147 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Family Amusements Limited is a financially robust, market-leading regional amusement operator whose balance sheet strength and conservative leverage significantly exceed sector norms. The company has demonstrated impressive resilience in growing revenue to £11.6m despite the 2022 disposal of Britannia Pier, and its net asset growth to £21.4m reflects both property value appreciation and disciplined profit retention. The principal strategic considerations are geographic concentration risk, vulnerability to gambling regulation, and managing what appears to be a generational leadership transition – though the business's financial capacity and property advantages provide substantial competitive insulation against typical sector headwinds.
Shareholders' funds
£21,444,035
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be that of family entertainment and an amusements operator. This includes a number of licenced bars and catering outlets.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1981-01-23
- Employees
- 81 (2025 accounts · was 69 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Wellington Pier, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, England, NR30 3JF
- Postcode
- NR30 3JF
- Capital
- 13,464 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 14 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
- Financial year end
- 31 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-01-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 93290 Other amusement and recreation activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current · 7 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by WELLINGTON PIER LIMITED — since 2026-05-26
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB108648 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- family-amusements.co.uk
- Phone
- 01394284231, 01394284680
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ASTRA CHAMBERS, CHURCH ROAD, BUCKHURST HILL, ESSEX IG9 5TZ | 2007-08-29 |
| 27 ST ALBANS CRESCENT, WOODFORD GREEN, ESSEX IG8 9EJ | 1989-09-08 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 143 similar companies in NR
The largest employer among its local peers (81 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1981.
Competitors Norwich
This company ranks 1 among other amusement and recreation activities not elsewhere classified in Norwich.
The class of 1981
65%
of the 14,493 companies incorporated in 1981 are still active today; 29% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 4 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2024-06-25
- Where
- Suffolk (2), Norfolk (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK430930 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2024-06-25 | — |
| NK444178 | Norfolk | Freehold | 2015-01-12 | — |
| NK441414 | Norfolk | Leasehold | 2014-10-02 | — |
| SK346729 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2013-05-31 | — |
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