Other Leisure: business succession in the UK

Name: Other Leisure business succession in the UK
Creator: ExitRadar
License: https://www.exitradar.co.uk/terms

36,769 UK other leisure companies — 30.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

2.4 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured122,051

Director aged 60+36,769

Exposure rate30.1%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

122,051

Companies measured

36,769

With a director 60+

13,981

With a director 70+

30.1%

Exposure rate

Of the 36,769 with a director over 60, 751 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Other Leisure by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Wales	3,806	1,400	36.8%
Northern Ireland	1,932	705	36.5%
South West	8,679	3,124	36%
South East	16,179	5,364	33.2%
Scotland	6,856	2,250	32.8%
East of England	9,810	3,011	30.7%
North East	3,010	917	30.5%
Yorkshire & The Humber	7,294	2,227	30.5%
East Midlands	5,766	1,747	30.3%
West Midlands	7,949	2,403	30.2%
North West	12,796	3,553	27.8%
London	37,900	10,038	26.5%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Hospitality & Leisure pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Hospitality & Leisure →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

Cite this page

These figures are free to quote and reproduce, including in commercial work, with attribution to ExitRadar and a link to this page.

ExitRadar, "Other Leisure: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-leisure/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.