01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- PORTAKABIN LIMITED
- Company number
- 00685303
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
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 November 2025Next statement due
7 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Portakabin Holdco Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Notified
- 23 May 2024
1890 Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Owns 75% or more of shares (as a firm)
- Notified
- 22 May 2024
- Ceased
- 23 May 2024
Shepherd Building Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Owns 75% or more of shares (as a firm)
- Notified
- 22 May 2024
- Ceased
- 22 May 2024
Shepherd Industries Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 22 May 2024
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. BritDB joins them only by the exact company number and does not create separate pages for individuals. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted from this public view.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
1 Double Temporary Classrooms Hire including Groundworks - Meadowside School, Pool Lane, Woodchurch CH49 5LA
Wirral Council · updated 14 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
1 Double Temporary Classroom Hire including Groundworks - Fender Primary School, New Hey Road Woodchurch CH49 8HB
Wirral Council · updated 21 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
COV - Keresley Grange Primary School - Temporary Classrooms
Coventry City Council · updated 10 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
PP-10183b Hornchurch Academy Trust Construction, Infrastructure, Building Works, Installations and Renewables Open Framework
HORNCHURCH ACADEMY TRUST · updated 8 July 2026
- Tender value
- £830,000,000
- Awards
- 6
EX2607 RDC Hire Contract
Rother District Council · updated 25 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Swansea Help Point Portacabin Hire
Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales · updated 27 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Modular Building and Modern Methods of Construction
Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation · updated 20 May 2026
- Tender value
- £400,000,000
- Awards
- 15
953_26 Modular Buildings
Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO · updated 7 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 10
Portacabin at Longfield Fire and Rescue, Hitchin Road
Hertfordshire County Council · updated 6 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Purchase of Blashford Community Respite Facility
London Borough of Camden · updated 21 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Eastbrook Manor Community Centre
Adur District Council · updated 26 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
3 temporary classrooms for period of 30 months at Beckfoot Nessfield Primary School
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council · updated 9 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Design, Supply and Installation of Permanent and Temporary Modular Buildings
LHC Procurement Group for the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) · updated 5 November 2025
- Tender value
- £150,000,000
- Awards
- 13
ID0032 - Women's & Children's
COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 4 November 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
PPE Enclosure
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · updated 27 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Modular Buildings 3 - Lease Hire
The City of Liverpool College · updated 15 September 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
St John the Baptist Primary school - Phase 2 Temporary building
Stockton on Tees Borough Council · updated 9 September 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Modular Buildings 3
NHS Shared Business Services Limited · updated 9 September 2025
- Tender value
- £2,600,000,000
- Awards
- 19
Portaloo Buildings Hire
The City of Liverpool College · updated 6 August 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Hire of Portacabin for Swansea Help Point
Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales · updated 12 May 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Showing the first 20 of 21 linked procurement processes.
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.
08 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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.
09 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.
10 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
21 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
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.
11 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
12 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
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.