01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- CAREERS RESEARCH AND ADVISORY CENTRE (CRAC) LIMITED(THE)
- Company number
- 00825036
- 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
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 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
8 June 2026Next statement due
22 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Commissioning consultants to identify best practice relating to inclusive selection processes
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-627db748-f9cb-4c3c-87b3-09479a02f29d
- Award value
- £48,500
- Contract period
- 21 November 2022 – 27 March 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
CR20027 - Evaluation of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Doctoral Training Partnership Scheme
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-57d81115-4279-4bea-b2d8-585a3d76f7bf
- Award value
- £38,950
- Contract period
- 1 May 2020 – 26 February 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
UK SBS CR19039 Research Integrity: A landscape study
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-7189b96b-ac3b-488e-be1b-a25ad67aae58
- Award value
- £66,850
- Contract period
- 20 June 2019 – 13 December 2019
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
UK SBS CR18074 Post Graduate Research Catalyst Evaluation
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-42f63adb-d9bf-411c-87d1-f92657223735
- Award value
- £53,600
- Contract period
- 11 July 2018 – 31 March 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
BIS Research and Evaluation Framework
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-4596628b-adc8-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b
- Award value
- £90,000,000
- Contract period
- 2 January 2016 – 2 January 2020
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure
UK SBS Professional Doctorates: research to understand demand for and the characteristics of the range of professional doctorates in English higher education
N H S SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LTD · ocds-b5fd17-3924a24a-adc8-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b
- Award value
- £42,600
- Contract period
- 30 March 2015 – 10 October 2015
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
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.
04 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 8 June 2017
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05 Charity register
Charity Commission links
THE CAREERS RESEARCH AND ADVISORY CENTRE (C R A C ) LIMITED
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 5 March 1965
- Latest income
- £1,356,000
- Latest expenditure
- £2,360,000
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Children/young People
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
CRACs aim is to encourage and support career learning and active career development at all ages. We provide inspiration, intelligence and innovation to all those who support career development. CRAC works in partnership with educators, employers and others, sharing knowledge and developing programmes and activities to help people make informed career decisions and manage their careers positively.
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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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.
09 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.
10 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Post-graduate level higher education
11 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
1 procurement process 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.
12 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
13 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
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.