🎲 Richardsons Leisure Limited

This company is a leisure and hospitality operator whose primary activities are boating holidays, boat building and holiday centres in the United Kingdom. It also holds an operating licence from the Gambling Commission in Great Britain and is recorded on the public register as an active licensee. The company was incorporated on 9 March 1961 and forms part of a wider family-owned group of leisure businesses.

The business traces its origins to activities begun by Robert Richardson Jnr, who started hiring out small boats in the early 1940s. Over subsequent decades it expanded from Oulton Broad to additional boatyards and holiday locations, including operations on the Norfolk Broads and the River Thames. Within the broader group, it has been associated with a number of boating and holiday brands and boatyards acquired from other operators during the late twentieth century.

Ownership and control remain within the Richardson family. Individuals associated with management and directorships include Paul Jonathan Richardson, Laura Joan Richardson and Gregory Munford. A holding entity, Richardsons Leisure (Holdings) Limited, is recorded as a person with significant control in corporate filings, indicating group-level ownership above the operating company.

Licensing and Operations

The company holds an operating licence issued by the Gambling Commission under the Gambling Act 2005. This authorises it to provide specified forms of gambling in Great Britain, in accordance with the licence conditions and codes of practice set by the regulator. The licence is recorded on the Commission’s public register as active.

The public register entry lists the business as an operating-licence holder, but does not record any trading names specific to gambling activity. The company’s core commercial focus, as evidenced by corporate and industry sources, is on leisure services such as boat hire and holiday accommodation. Any gambling-related activity is therefore ancillary to its main leisure operations and conducted under the permissions granted by its operating licence.

The Commission’s register does not indicate that the company holds remote-only permissions; its authorisation is consistent with land-based or premises-linked gambling activities that may be offered as part of a wider leisure or holiday environment. Details such as product verticals, stake and prize limits, or specific formats of gambling are governed by the underlying licence type and associated regulations but are not itemised publicly at the level of individual games or installations.

Regulatory History

The public register of the Gambling Commission does not record any regulatory sanctions, financial penalties or licence suspensions in relation to this operator. There is no published evidence of licence revocation, formal warnings or settlements under the Commission’s enforcement powers.

The licence remains in force and is shown as active, with no indication of surrender or lapse. Publicly available corporate and regulatory records do not document any transfers of the gambling licence to another entity, nor any changes in control that have triggered published regulatory interventions under the Gambling Act 2005.