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Company description
WILLIAM STRIKE LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 7 January 1908; registered for 118 years; registered office reported in CARLISLE. Its primary declared activity is 47789 · Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians).
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- WILLIAM STRIKE LIMITED
- Company number
- 00096366
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 8 total · 1 outstanding · 7 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
30 September 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
30 April 2026Next statement due
14 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 50.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 58.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 79.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 78.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 52.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 67.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 70.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 74.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 4999-1.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9990.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9990.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499914.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 30 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 October 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £4,444,310
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £13,174,922
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £12,621,262
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £4,210,547
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 50.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 30.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 180 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Our standard terms are end of month the invoice is dated plus 45 days with payment made and cleared in this timescale.
We also have extended payment terms with certain suppliers at various times of the year. - Dispute resolution process
Disputed invoices are marked on the system and the supplier is contacted informing them of why an invoice is disputed with
the aim being to resolve all disputes as soon as possible.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 60.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 61.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 61.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 62.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 62.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 65.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 64.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 65.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 68.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 67.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 77.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- WILLIAM STRIKE LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 31 March 2024 – 1 April 2025
- Approved
- 26 November 2025
- Sectors
- Consumer services, including accommodation, hospitality, tourism and leisure Durable consumer goods, including electronics and appliances, home furnishings and other accessories
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 16 December 2025
Policies described
Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination
Training described
Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff
Other monitoring
Due diligence audits with suppliers
Demonstrated progress
Statement will be reviewed and updated for 2026
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
William Strike Limited
Registration Z5957618
- Registered from
- 30 November 2001
- Current end date
- 29 November 2026
- Trading names
- STRIKES GARDEN CENTRES
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
HOUGHTON HALL GARDEN CENTRE
NW/017690590/001 · CA6 4JB
- Permit or record holder
- WILLIAM STRIKE LIMITED
- Record date
- 3 March 2006
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Regulated site or public record address
- HOUGHTON HALL GARDEN CENTRE, HOUGHTON, CARLISLE, CA6 4JB
- Activity
- Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles · Sewage & Trade - Secondary Treated Effluent and Trade Effluent
- Grid reference
- NY4137059730
- Easting
- 341370.000
- Northing
- 559730.000
- All populated source fields
- Permit Number: NW/017690590/001; Permit Holder Name: WILLIAM STRIKE LIMITED; Site Name: HOUGHTON HALL GARDEN CENTRE; Site Type: Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles; Effluent Type: Sewage & Trade - Secondary Treated Effluent and Trade Effluent; Site Address: HOUGHTON HALL GARDEN CENTRE, HOUGHTON, CARLISLE, CA6 4JB; Site Postcode: CA6 4JB; Site Grid Reference: NY4137059730; Easting: 341370; Northing: 559730; Local Authority: Cumberland; Start Date: 2006-03-03
These are candidate company associations. The public-register downloads do not supply Companies House numbers. BritDB requires one unique exact holder-name and postcode match; the regulated site may differ from the registered office, so verify the record at source.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Strikes Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Under Uk Law
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Uk Companies House Register
- Registration number
- 163229
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Candidate permit and enforcement associations based on a unique exact holder-name and postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.