UK Business Succession Index

Sports Clubs & Recreation succession in East Midlands

170 of 257 sports clubs & recreation companies in East Midlands — 66.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured257
Director aged 60+170
Exposure rate66.1%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,516,113·Data as at 30 August 2026·Full methodology
257
Companies measured
170
Director 60+
108
Director 70+
66.1%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; sports clubs & recreation nationally runs at 66.6%.

MeasureCompanies
Sports Clubs & Recreation companies in East Midlands measured257
Oldest director aged 60 or over170
Oldest director aged 70 or over108

Of the 170 with a director over 60, 15 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Sports Clubs & Recreation in other regions

Region60+Rate
North West29170.8%
West Midlands22170.2%
South West23668.6%
South East43367.8%
East of England22762.2%
London23351.5%

Other trades in East Midlands

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services4,46839.4%
Lettings4,42736%
Retail2,96424.9%
Investment2,16728.1%
Other Leisure2,14431.4%
Investment / Fund Management2,03336.7%
Agriculture1,90358.7%
Engineering Services1,69338%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Sports Clubs & Recreation succession in East Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 30 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-sports/east-midlands/

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 3,516,113 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.9% of the 3,746,409 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 30 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.