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Company description
THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 31 December 1952; registered for 73 years; registered office reported in CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS. Its primary declared activity is 18130 · Pre-press and pre-media services, with 3 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 charity record, 2 procurement records. 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
- THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS
- Company number
- 00514735
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 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
23 June 2026Next statement due
7 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS
LEI 213800P17FTSWOW4GH04 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 4GJI
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 31 December 1952
- Initial LEI registration
- 26 February 2015
- LEI last updated
- 13 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 27 February 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS, LIMITED
- Legal address
- BIDDER BUILDING, STATION ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, GB-CAM, CB24 9LF, GB
- Headquarters address
- BIDDER BUILDING, STATION ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, GB-CAM, CB24 9LF, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
The Company of Biologists
Registration Z5687555
- Registered from
- 17 September 2001
- Current end date
- 16 September 2026
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.
05 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
DDaT24527 - Company of Biologists Subscription
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-97163141-888c-427e-b1a1-b20168684888
- Supplier named in award
- The Company of Biologists Ltd
- Award value
- £10,879
- Contract period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2026
- Published
- 2 December 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 48000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-97163141-888c-427e-b1a1-b20168684888-2024-12-02T11:28:00Z
CS22021 - Read and publish agreement
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-af9c500a-0f62-4d2f-9929-390c743a107a
- Supplier named in award
- THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS, LIMITED
- Award value
- £19,559
- Contract period
- 1 February 2022 – 31 January 2023
- Published
- 18 February 2022
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 48218000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-af9c500a-0f62-4d2f-9929-390c743a107a-2022-02-18T14:06:19Z
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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 26 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.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 27 June 1979
- Latest income
- £8,428,267
- Latest expenditure
- £9,770,010
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Makes Grants To Individuals
To promote research and study across all branches of biology through the publication of journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. To provide free access to journal content in the developing world and to fund workshops, grants and travelling fellowships to support the scientific community.
Source details and official record →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.
08 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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09 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.
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10 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.
11 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.
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Reproduction of computer media
Publishing of learned journals
Other publishing activities
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
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.
14 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
- Company name
Previous name: THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS, LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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.