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Company description
H.TEMPEST LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 16 June 1942; registered for 84 years; registered office reported in ST. IVES, CORNWALL. Its primary declared activity is 74201 · Portrait photographic activities.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2024, it reported profit after tax £105,804, net assets £27,426,130, average employees 565. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 9 PSC records, 6 trade marks, 1 procurement 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
- H.TEMPEST LIMITED
- Company number
- 00374510
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 10 total · 1 outstanding · 9 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
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
30 June 2026Next statement due
14 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit after tax
- £105,804
- Fixed assets
- £6,433,049
- Net assets
- £27,426,130
- Current assets
- £26,811,763
- Current liabilities
- £5,476,773
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £27,768,039
- Cash at bank
- £22,295,006
- Equity
- £27,426,130
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- -17.8%
- Women receiving bonus
- 92.2%
- Men receiving bonus
- 94.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 54.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 72.1%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 78.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 60.3%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 500 to 9993.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9992.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99911.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99914.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9996.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9990.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9990.0% 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.
05 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 July 2023 – 31 December 2023
- Filed
- 11 July 2024
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- 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-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 23.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The company negotiates and agrees payment terms with suppliers as necessary. The general terms are to settle all valid invoices within 30 days of the invoice date although this can be dependent upon the nature of the goods and services being supplied.
- Dispute resolution process
Any disagreements with amounts invoiced by suppliers will be raised by the individual responsible for the expenditure or their head of department. Should it remain unresolved it will be escalated to a senior manager or director.
Earlier payment reports (5 shown)
- 22.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 11.0 average days to pay17.0% 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.
06 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
H.TEMPEST LIMITED
LEI 213800SYG71DQJR6JB25 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 29 November 2017
- LEI last updated
- 30 November 2019
- Next renewal
- 29 November 2019
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- THE COLOUR LABORATORY, LELANT, ST. IVES, GB-CON, TR26 3HU, GB
- Headquarters address
- THE COLOUR LABORATORY, LELANT, ST. IVES, GB-CON, TR26 3HU, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Graduation Photography
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH · ocds-b5fd17-1712f6e8-1798-470c-bb33-ed53b0d060a9
- Supplier named in award
- H.TEMPEST LIMITED
- Award value
- £413,000
- Contract period
- 1 December 2021 – 1 December 2024
- Published
- 9 March 2021
- Procedure
- Other - Mini Competition off Framework OJEU
- Main CPV
- 79961300
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1712f6e8-1798-470c-bb33-ed53b0d060a9-2021-03-09T16:02:02Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
GGC GRADUATE GOWNING CO
Owner H Tempest Limited · classes 25,45
- Filed / designated
- 25 October 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 October 2027
JOLT MEDIA
Owner H Tempest Limited · classes 9,16,20,27,40,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 25 October 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
STUDIO B3
Owner H Tempest Limited · classes 16,20,40,41
- Filed / designated
- 25 October 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
TEMPEST PHOTOGRAPHY
Owner H Tempest Limited · classes 9,16,20,21,40,41
- Filed / designated
- 25 October 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
H TEMPEST
Owner H Tempest Limited · classes 9,16,20,21,40,41
- Filed / designated
- 25 October 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
Figurative mark
Owner H. Tempest Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 28 November 1946
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 November 2015
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr Robert TempestSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 14 November 2022
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-07-02T00:00:00Z
Mr Ronald James Douglas Brunwin
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 11 August 2022
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-03-01T00:00:00Z
Mr Beric Richard John Tempest
- Has significant influence or control (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-07-02T00:00:00Z
Mr Terence Tempest
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Has significant influence or control (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-07-02T00:00:00Z
Executors Of Rose Tempest
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Legal authority
- England
- Legal form
- Executors Of Rose Tempest
- Notified
- 4 June 2017
- Ceased
- 20 December 2018
Executors Of Rose Tempest
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares (as a trust)
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights (as a trust)
- Legal authority
- England
- Legal form
- Executors Of Rose Tempest
- Notified
- 4 June 2017
- Ceased
- 20 December 2018
Mr Keith Richard Harkness
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares (as a trust)
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 11 August 2022
Mrs Rose Tempest
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares (as a trust)
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 4 June 2017
Mrs Rose Tempest
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 4 June 2017
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
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.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
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.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.