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Company description
APPLETON WOODS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 30 May 1967; registered for 59 years; registered office reported in BIRMINGHAM. Its primary declared activity is 46900 · Non-specialised wholesale trade.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 March 2025, it reported net assets £1,140,639, average employees 26. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 19 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
- APPLETON WOODS LIMITED
- Company number
- 00907224
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- TOTAL EXEMPTION FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 7 total · 2 outstanding · 5 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 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
1 December 2025Next statement due
15 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Fixed assets
- £243,571
- Net assets
- £1,140,639
- Current assets
- £2,936,189
- Current liabilities
- £1,969,325
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £1,210,435
- Cash at bank
- £303,334
- Equity
- £1,140,639
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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Research laboratory Equipment
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY · ocds-b5fd17-a50749e6-50b9-49b5-9850-5cf0e48f3b02
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Ltd
- Award value
- £125,000
- Contract period
- 20 September 2024 – 30 June 2025
- Published
- 11 March 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 38000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a50749e6-50b9-49b5-9850-5cf0e48f3b02-2025-03-11T10:16:49Z
Research laboratory Equipment
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY · ocds-b5fd17-a50749e6-50b9-49b5-9850-5cf0e48f3b02
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Ltd
- Award value
- £125,000
- Contract period
- 20 September 2024 – 30 June 2025
- Published
- 11 March 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 38000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a50749e6-50b9-49b5-9850-5cf0e48f3b02-2025-03-11T10:16:49Z
PK045 Primostar 3 Microscope set(s)
University Of The West Of England · ocds-b5fd17-5b17d176-c95d-4354-bd2a-5dcf308118e8
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Limited
- Award value
- £153,010
- Contract period
- 12 April 2024 – 13 April 2024
- Published
- 4 February 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 38510000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5b17d176-c95d-4354-bd2a-5dcf308118e8-2025-02-04T08:34:42Z
174_24 Science Consumables
Espo · ocds-b5fd17-1accccf6-625f-4ffd-b8b2-d7d45cf63662
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Limited
- Award value
- £960,000
- Contract period
- 1 March 2024 – 31 March 2026
- Published
- 20 February 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24300000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1accccf6-625f-4ffd-b8b2-d7d45cf63662-2024-02-20T15:23:24Z
PURCON 2054 Fluorescence stereomicroscope
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA · ocds-b5fd17-57e8dd4a-3865-4bb8-9606-e4a35288da04
- Supplier named in award
- APPLETON WOODS LIMITED
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 31 January 2024 – 30 April 2025
- Published
- 20 February 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 38510000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-57e8dd4a-3865-4bb8-9606-e4a35288da04-2024-02-20T14:52:07Z
Equipment for Biomedical Laboratory - A call-off from Lot 11 (one stop shop) of the LUPC awarded framework agreement for Laboratory Equipment (General) and Associated Post Installation Services (ref:LAB5061LU)
LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY · ocds-b5fd17-53c87c8f-d60c-4714-873f-e99f5fcd251d
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Limited
- Award value
- £259,000
- Contract period
- 6 June 2023 – 30 September 2023
- Published
- 5 June 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 38434540
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-53c87c8f-d60c-4714-873f-e99f5fcd251d-2023-06-05T11:41:16+01:00
UK SBS RE21225 Laboratory Consumables Framework
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-07c0fe19-3af5-4960-8ffd-434ac3f5a93b
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Ltd
- Award value
- £9,500,000
- Contract period
- 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2024
- Published
- 22 September 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 15994200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-07c0fe19-3af5-4960-8ffd-434ac3f5a93b-2022-09-22T14:25:22+01:00
Provision of Flocked Pernasal Swabs LAB4040 SU
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-c1a08bd8-f3ed-438a-8289-10a0a8f0167c
- Supplier named in award
- APPLETON WOODS LIMITED
- Award value
- £130,800
- Contract period
- 26 April 2021 – 31 October 2021
- Published
- 27 April 2021
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 38912000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-c1a08bd8-f3ed-438a-8289-10a0a8f0167c-2021-04-27T15:21:05+01:00
PHE_Scientific_Provision of Gloves IRLA LAB4040 SU
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-5b7262d1-2a3d-42ec-91d7-3bcb16aa9f58
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Wood Limited
- Award value
- £200,000
- Contract period
- 20 April 2021 – 19 April 2022
- Published
- 17 May 2021
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 18424000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5b7262d1-2a3d-42ec-91d7-3bcb16aa9f58-2021-05-17T15:30:05+01:00
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 2: Research and Development Goods and Services
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Ltd
- Award value
- £1,500,000,000
- Contract period
- 23 April 2021 – 22 April 2023
- Published
- 10 May 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78-2021-05-10T17:53:56+01:00
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 2: Research and Development Goods and Services
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Ltd
- Award value
- £1,500,000,000
- Contract period
- 23 April 2021 – 22 April 2023
- Published
- 10 May 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78-2021-05-10T17:53:56+01:00
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 1: Diagnostic Goods and Services
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-f7d14908-7da1-4faa-8801-324f837a758e
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Ltd
- Award value
- £3,000,000,000
- Contract period
- 9 April 2021 – 8 April 2023
- Published
- 19 April 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-f7d14908-7da1-4faa-8801-324f837a758e-2021-04-19T13:15:19+01:00
Provision of Liquid Transport Medium Swabs LAB4040 SU
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-65f8f3fe-0f8c-4710-a228-a7b3cb1260ed
- Supplier named in award
- APPLETON WOODS LIMITED
- Award value
- £500,000
- Contract period
- 9 November 2020 – 8 November 2021
- Published
- 6 November 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 38912000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-65f8f3fe-0f8c-4710-a228-a7b3cb1260ed-2020-11-06T14:43:37Z
Tender for the Supply of Laboratory Consumables and Reagents
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · ocds-b5fd17-2bc43731-390d-4cd6-9c72-e70cf1aa6a6d
- Supplier named in award
- Appleton Woods Ltd
- Award value
- £30,000,000
- Contract period
- 2 November 2020 – 1 November 2024
- Published
- 10 February 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 38000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2bc43731-390d-4cd6-9c72-e70cf1aa6a6d-2021-02-10T12:22:21Z
Provision of Gloves (LAB4040 SU)
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-1c89d7ea-83a6-4b16-b1ba-787418d76ccb
- Supplier named in award
- APPLETON WOODS LIMITED
- Award value
- £50,000
- Contract period
- 1 May 2020 – 31 March 2022
- Published
- 17 July 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 18424300
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1c89d7ea-83a6-4b16-b1ba-787418d76ccb-2020-07-17T14:34:15+01:00
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.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Appleton Woods Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- The Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 14880475
- Notified
- 14 July 2025
Mr Christopher Lindon BrownSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 14 July 2025
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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Metafer MetaSystems Microscope System for Cytogenetics Group
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency · updated 3 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 2
Waiver - UHB_HGS - Appleton Woods Ltd - Capital purchase of UV microscope at Heartlands Hospital
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · updated 2 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
174_24 Science Consumables
ESPO · updated 20 February 2024
- Tender value
- £960,000
- Awards
- 3
Laboratory Consumables
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · updated 22 September 2022
- Tender value
- £9,500,000
- Awards
- 238
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.
10 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.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 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
4 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.
13 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: APPLETON.WOODS LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
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.